Democrats push gun measure in Colo, give up others
Colorado Democrats advanced aggressive gun-control proposals after a 12-hour marathon debate Friday in a state wrestling with its history of ...
Amnesty: NKorea control expands beyond the gulag
When Amnesty International officials scrutinized new satellite imagery of a notorious North Korean prison camp, what caught their attention was not ...
Court limits border searches of electronic devices
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Border Patrol agents must have reasonable suspicion of criminal activity before conducting comprehensive ...
Defense seeks dismissal of Ind. fetal murder case
A lawyer for a woman charged with murdering her infant because she ate rat poison while pregnant says records clearly show that the Indiana law she's ...
GOP chairman, lawmaker take heat on gay marriage
Two Illinois Republicans are finding out that for all the talk nationally of the GOP becoming more inclusive and appealing to voters by softening ...
Half of girls in South Sudan forced to marry
The 17-year-old beaten to death for refusing to marry a man old enough to be her grandfather. The teen dragged by her family to be raped to force her ...
3 women a day killed by a partner in South Africa
Reeva Steenkamp, the model and law graduate shot and killed by Oscar Pistorius, was statistically just one of three women killed on Valentine's Day ...
Iran: UN human rights rapporteur took US bribes
An Iranian official has accused the U.N. special rapporteur for human rights in Iran of taking bribes from the United States, the semi-official ISNA ...
Police chief's polygraph targets racist applicants
A police chief hired to rebuild a tiny Tennessee department dismantled by scandal is using a lie-detector test to keep racists off his force.
Law gives tribes new authority over non-Indians
American Indian tribes have tried everything from banishment to charging criminal acts as civil offenses to deal with non-Indians who commit crimes ...
Clinton: Court should nix anti-gay marriage law
Former President Bill Clinton is calling on the Supreme Court to overturn a law he signed that bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
Idaho first state to have fetal pain law rejected
Idaho has become the first state to have its so-called fetal pain law banning abortions after 20 weeks struck down by the federal courts. The decision ...
Arkansas GOP eyes Planned Parenthood funds next
Not content with enacting the most restrictive abortion law in the country, Arkansas Republicans plan to press the legislative advantage their party ...
Ga. backs relaxing gun laws for mentally ill
While some states push to tighten gun control laws after the Connecticut school massacre, lawmakers in gun-friendly Georgia want to ease rules ...
Senate panel casts year's first votes on gun curbs
In Congress' first gun votes since the Newtown, Conn., nightmare, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to toughen federal penalties against ...
Anti-abortion groups divided over legal tactics
By adopting the nation's toughest abortion law in the face of certain legal challenge, Arkansas legislators have exposed sharp tactical divisions ...
Obama signs expanded Violence Against Women Act
President Barack Obama signed expanded protections for domestic violence victims into law Thursday, renewing a measure credited with curbing attacks ...
Libya women face Islamist rise since Gadhafi fall
On her way back from her job as a lecturer at a university near Tripoli, Libyan poet Aicha Almagrabi was stopped by a group of bearded militiamen.
Kenya media self-censoring to reduce vote tension
It's the biggest news of the year in Kenya: A presidential election with huge potential for violence. Why then are the headlines so boring, the TV ...
Italy kingmaker's anti-Jewish views under scrutiny
Comic Beppe Grillo's populist tirades were seen as a benign outlet for popular anger in the days his protest movement was a sideshow in Italian ...
SAfrica: apartheid hit squad leader dies
Dirk Coetzee, a former commander of a covert police unit in apartheid-era South Africa who confessed to involvement in the extra-judicial killings of ...
UN says 21 peacekeepers detained on Golan Heights
Armed fighters linked to the Syrian opposition detained 21 U.N. peacekeepers from the Philippines on Wednesday in the increasingly volatile zone ...
More gun laws = fewer deaths, 50-state study says
States with the most gun control laws have the fewest gun-related deaths, according to a study that suggests sheer quantity of measures might make a ...
Dems halt background check talks with Sen. Coburn
Senate Democrats set aside their effort Wednesday to win support from conservative Sen. Tom Coburn for requiring federal background checks for nearly ...
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