Search Results for: 2006-06-23

Virginia executed a man Thursday night using the electric chair, the first execution by electrocution in the country in over two years. Brandon Wayne Hedrick, convicted of the rape and murder of a...

AP is reporting that a federal judge has ruled that an FBI raid on the congressional office of US Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) was legal and has denied Jefferson's request that documents seized during the...

A panel of federal judges in Texas has given parties to a lawsuit over Texas' congressional district two weeks to propose a solution to the 2003 Texas redistricting plan for the 23rd Congressional District, which...

Executive order on protection of property rights, President George W. Bush, June 23, 2006 [directing that US federal agencies and government departments may not seize private property unless the taking is for public use "and not merely for the purpose...

Republican House leaders Thursday clarified the timing and purpose of proposed nationwide immigration hearings , deflecting criticism that the hearings were intended to delay a House vote on comprehensive immigration reform until after November elections....

European Union diplomats on Thursday agreed to revive an agreement with the United States that compels European airlines to disclose information about passengers flying from Europe to the US. The EU and US first reached such an...

US Central Intelligence Agency counterterrorism agents secretly reviewed financial records of Americans listed in an international database after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks , focusing on people with links to al Qaeda, according to reports...

For the first time in 20 years, a former government official is on trial for crimes committed during the Dirty War in Argentina . The trial of Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz , former chief...

Russian President Vladimir Putin nominated Justice Minister Yury Chaika on Monday to be the country's new prosecutor-general . Leaders of the Federation Council , the upper house of parliament, said they...

US District Judge Sim Lake has delayed the sentencing of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling until October 23. Lake agreed on Friday to a motion filed by the defense team...