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Red Cross Fears U.S. Officials Are Holding Terror Suspects in Secret Locations Worldwide The Associated Press GENEVA July 13, 2004 — The international Red Cross said Tuesday that it fears U.S. officials are holding terror suspects secretly in locations across the world. The Geneva...

By FORD FESSENDEN http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/10/national/10florida.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position= This time around, Jeb promised that the state will do it right, but after the list was made public (by newspapers going to court) it turns out the list has a few problems. First, it...

He says his duty ended, but the Army disagrees By CRAIG JARVIS, Staff Writer A Cary veteran who hasn't been in uniform in four years is resisting the Army's involuntary recall of reservists for the war in Iraq, arguing that his reserve commitment should have ended six months ago. The Army...

Jun 28, 10:46 AM (ET) By ANNE GEARAN WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled narrowly Monday that Congress gave President Bush the power to hold an American citizen without charges or trial, but said the detainee can challenge his treatment in court. The 6-3 ruling sided with the...

By GINA HOLLAND Associated Press Writer June 21, 2004, 10:57 PM EDT WASHINGTON -- A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that people who refuse to give their names to police can be arrested, even if they've done nothing wrong. The court previously had said police may briefly...

WASHINGTON — The officer who oversaw interrogations at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad testified that he was under intense "pressure" from the White House, Pentagon and CIA last fall to get better information from detainees, pressure that he said included a visit to the prison by an aide to...

Gallery Owner Attacked for Iraq Abuse Art 59 minutes ago By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco gallery owner bears a painful reminder of the nation's unresolved anguish over the incidents at the Abu Ghraib prison — a black eye delivered by an unknown...

27 minutes ago By Andrew Marshall BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces beat three Iraqis working for Reuters and subjected them to sexual and religious taunts and humiliation during their detention last January in a military camp near Falluja, the three said on Tuesday. The three first told...

1 hour, 2 minutes ago By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry on Friday collected the endorsement of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, a police union that backed President Bush in the 2000 election. "After three and a...

Posted on Fri, May. 07, 2004 WINDBER, Pa. - When reports this week named Spc. Joseph Darby as the soldier who sounded the alarm on abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad, his family was proud and anxious. "The news has been using the word 'whistleblower,' which to me...

Monday May 10, 2004 (0120 PST) Osama bin Laden's family business is on the short list of contractors bidding to build the world's tallest skyscraper. It may seem tragically ironic that the name most closely associated with the destruction of New York's World Trade Center may soon be...

State: Purge felon voters on list State officials order local elections supervisors to begin purging voter rolls of felons who don't have the right to vote. The measure may affect as many as 40,000 voters. BY GARY FINEOUT [email protected] TALLAHASSEE - Six months before a...

By JIM RUTENBERG WASHINGTON, May 4 — The Walt Disney Company is blocking its Miramax division from distributing a new documentary by Michael Moore that harshly criticizes President Bush, executives at both Disney and Miramax said Tuesday. The film, "Fahrenheit 911," links Mr. Bush and...

Neil A. Lewis NYT Tuesday, May 4, 2004 WASHINGTON The Bush administration's plan to use military tribunals to try some of the detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which has faced considerable skepticism, has been receiving some of its sharpest attacks from the military defense lawyers who...

Florida Town to Use Surveillance Cameras Florida Town Will Soon Have Cameras and Computers Running Background Checks on Every Car and Driver The Associated Press MANALAPAN, Fla. April 27 — One of the nation's wealthiest towns will soon have cameras and computers running background checks...

Florida Town to Use Surveillance Cameras Florida Town Will Soon Have Cameras and Computers Running Background Checks on Every Car and Driver The Associated Press MANALAPAN, Fla. April 27 — One of the nation's wealthiest towns will soon have cameras and computers running background checks...

The Republican-controlled Michigan House of Representatives passed a measure today that would allow doctors to refuse to treat gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender patients. The Conscientious Objector Policy Act provides that health care workers can refuse service to anyone for moral...

Fri Apr 23, 7:26 PM ET OAKLAND, Calif. - The federal government has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two environmental activists who were arrested and branded eco-terrorists by the FBI 14 years ago. Darryl Cherney and the estate of the late Judi Bari, who died of...

MARGARET NEIGHBOUR GUERRILLAS and residents in Fallujah have "days, not weeks" to turn in heavy weapons or face renewed military action, the top US marine commander in Iraq said yesterday. US marines stopped allowing families who had fled the fighting to return home, which had been part of...

Critics of electronic voting and voting By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER It is an uncommon day when the nation's second-largest provider of voting systems concedes that its flagship products in California have significant security flaws and that it supplied hundreds of poorly designed...