WASHINGTON – Foes of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor celebrated the high court's reversal of her decision in a reverse discrimination case. The 5-4 ruling Monday, backing of reverse discrimination claims by white firefighters, is unlikely to derail Sotomayor's nomination — ...Read More
KABUL -- With disclosure of his diplomatic warning shots from Kabul, U.S. Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry has stepped on to center stage in a political drama he has sought to navigate from behind the scenes. Throughout the political turmoil surrounding Afghanistan's ...Read More
President Barack Obama expressed fresh doubts about the credibility of Afghanistan's government in high-level discussions Wednesday over what troops to send there, after his ambassador to Kabul warned against any reinforcements until the Afghan regime cracks down on corruption.
U.S. Ambassador ...Read More
DUBLIN—A premier Dublin golf club can continue to bar women from membership, the Irish Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a discrimination case inspired by similar protests against men-only clubs in the United States. In a split 3-2 judgment, Ireland's top court ...Read More
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Donald Sterling, owner of theNational Basketball Association’s Los Angeles Clippers, agreedto pay $2.73 million to settle a U.S. government lawsuitaccusing him of housing discrimination. The payment is the largest ever obtained by the U.S.government in a discrimination ...Read More
KABUL (Reuters) - Re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed to form an inclusive government on Tuesday after stern warnings from Western supporters he would have to work harder to root out corruption.
Afghan election officials on Monday canceled a needless presidential ...Read More
It has emerged the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is under review just days after Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, ordered Prof Nutt to step down after accusing him of "crossing the line" for criticising Government policy, ...Read More
Reporting from New York - The ease with which the Yankees dispatched Minnesota in the American League division series, sweeping the Twins aside in three straight, masked some serious concerns with New York's offense.
The Yankees, after all, hit a paltry.225 ...Read More
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it planned to use its authority for the first time to revoke a previously issued permit for a West Virginia surface mine. Acting EPA Regional Administrator William Early said in a ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Thursday declined to name China as a country that is manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages. The Treasury Department did say it has "serious concerns" about a lack of flexibility in the value ...Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration on Thursday declined to name China as a country that is manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages.
The Treasury Department did say it has "serious concerns" about a lack of flexibility in the ...Read More
Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The award of the 2009 Nobel PeacePrize to President Barack Obama caught the winner off guard,divided Washington along familiar partisan lines and leftforeign-policy experts and some past recipients puzzling overthe choice. “I am both surprised and deeply ...Read More
WASHINGTON - Pakistan's foreign minister said Wednesday that a proposed multibillion-dollar U.S. aid package is crucial to Islamabad's efforts to fight terrorists. Shah Mahmood Qureshi played down a statement by Pakistan's military that it had serious concerns about aid — seen ...Read More
Pakistan's top commander, Gen Ashfaq Kayani, met senior military chiefs
Pakistan's army has said it has "serious concerns" about a major US aid package which grants Pakistan $1.5bn a year for the next five years.
The Kerry-Lugar bill set several conditions ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal prosecutors have announced a settlement with a Los Angeles-based bank that was sued along with two auto dealerships for allegedly charging non-Asian customers higher interest rates on car loans. Under the agreement, Nara Bank will pay ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- Senators challenging the latest proposed health care overhaul already have won concessions that include reducing a penalty for Americans who don't buy insurance, and hundreds of other changes are up for debate as a powerful committee takes up ...Read More
Sep 21st, 2009 | WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee was revising his sweeping health care bill Monday to address serious concerns from fellow Democrats and a key Republican about insurance costs, part of his ongoing struggle ...Read More
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee was revising his sweeping health care bill Monday to address serious concerns from fellow Democrats and a key Republican about insurance costs, part of his ongoing struggle to deliver on President ...Read More
Richard Goldstone, a South African judge who headed a U.N. panel investigating the war in Gaza, accused the two sides Tuesday of unlawfully targeting civilians during the conflict. Goldstone's team recommended that the U.N. Security Council instruct the combatants to ...Read More
On Saturday, under an unrelenting sun, a wild array of old and new machinery rumbled up and down Woodward Avenue from 9 Mile Road in Ferndale, Mich., to the avenue’s northern terminus in Pontiac. In many locations, spectators lined the ...Read More
By now, most people have heard -- negatively -- about the 2006 case Ricci v. DeStefano, in which 18 New Haven firefighters (17 white and one Hispanic) were not promoted after passing the required tests because there were no blacks ...Read More
