The California Supreme Court on Monday tossed out the death sentence of a man convicted of murdering rock guitarist Dave Navarro's mother and her friend nearly 30 years ago _ a ruling that could affect the cases of Scott Peterson and other death row inmates.
The California Supreme Court on Monday tossed out the death sentence of a man convicted of murdering rock guitarist Dave Navarro's mother and her friend nearly 30 years ago — a ruling that could affect the cases of Scott Peterson and other death-row inmates.
Remains from six men will be buried with full military honors in a single casket at Arlington National Cemetery, nearly 50 years after an Air Force plane carrying the men went down after taking off from Vietnam for a combat mission.
An Indonesian militant was convicted of helping to build the massive car bomb used in the deadly 2002 Bali nightclub attacks and was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday, concluding the trial for the case's last main defendant.
When Congress wrote its own oath of office in 1884, little did they know that, 128 years later, America would face a domestic threat to the U.S. Constitution — from its very own president.
Never before in my lifetime had I heard of a U.S. president publicly criticizing the "unelected" members of the United States Supreme Court, or trying to influence the court's decision-making - until recently, that is ("Obama at home in D.C.'s fetid swamp," Commentary, Monday).
The government, in direct opposition to the transparency President Obama promised, just loves to do big things in secret - like Obamacare's Senate approval at midnight on Christmas Eve of 2009 - and release broad mandates on Friday nights, when the media are less likely to cover them. In fact, much of the news that Mr. Obama and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would be forcing religious employers to violate their consciences was released on Fridays.
A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church Sunday in the middle of Mass, killing at least 10 people in the latest violence targeting a church in this central Nigerian city plagued by unrest, a state official said.
Egypt's parliament has called for a vote on stopping U.S. aid.
