Nearly 1,000 refugees were detained on a remote island in December before being towed out to sea and abandoned with little food or water, rights group says.
Joseph L. Bruno, the former Republican leader of the New York State Senate, is accused of reaping money from companies seeking state or union business.
Kirsten E. Gillibrand, who was chosen to fill New York?s vacant U.S. Senate seat, has strong connections on both sides of the aisle, and her positions reflect that fact.
AP - President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush administration's ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information — an inflammatory policy that has bounced in and out of law for the past quarter-century.
AP - Launching an all-out media blitz as his impeachment trial draws near, Gov. Rod Blagojevich compared himself Friday to an honest, hardworking cowboy and said he was about to be lynched by a band of black-hatted political insiders eager to raise taxes.
President Obama struck down a rule Friday that prohibits U.S. money from funding international family-planning clinics that promote abortion or provide counseling or referrals about abortion services. The act reverses the "Mexico City policy" initiated by President Reagan in 1984, canceled by President Clinton and reinstated by President George W. Bush in 2001.
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said his country is being treated "unequally" to other countries, despite being a staunch U.S. ally in its war on terror. The interview took place amid reports of U.S. drones striking militant targets in Pakistan days after the start of the Obama administration, a continuation of a Bush policy that Musharraf warned against.
The grandfather of slain Florida toddler Caylee Anthony was taken into custody early Friday after being reported missing late Thursday, sheriff's deputies and a family attorney said.