more images
Texas lawmaker criticized for double-billing
House officials: Probe of Texas lawmaker possible
3 more Cuban dissidents arrive in SpainMADRID — Three more Cuban political prisoners arrived in Madrid on Tuesday, bringing to 23 the number who have been released into exile under Cuba's pledge to free dissidents jailed there since 2003.
More News
- Cossiga, former Italian president and Communist foe, dies at 82 after lifelong political life
- Blagojevich corruption trial observers try to guess what jury notes mean for outcome
- Venezuela’s Communist Party urges Chavez to request repatriation of ‘Carlos the Jackal’
- Ex-House Majority Leader DeLay says he’s not surprised DOJ probe over without criminal charges
- Judge: Jury in Blagojevich corruption trial seeks transcript of ex-deputy governor’s testimony
- Tom DeLay says he was always confident DOJ probe would end with no criminal charges
- Judge: Jurors in Blagojevich corruption trial ask for former deputy governor’s testimony
- Judge says jurors in ex.-Ill. Gov. Blagojevich’s corruption trial have sent another note
- Bandits not insurgents behind brazen robberies of ships on key Iraqi waterway, say officials
- Iraqi official say robbers, not insurgents, were behind unusual ship robberies in key waterway
- Attorney says Justice Department has ended probe of Tom DeLay with no criminal charges
- Murky outcome at Blagojevich trial now more likely after jurors hint at disagreement
- Cuban Catholic Church reveals names of 6 more prisoners Castro’s gov’t has promised to free
- APNewsBreak: US Senate nominee Greene indicted on felony charge of showing porn to SC student
- Federal appeals court in NY tosses decision barring Congress from withholding funds for ACORN
- Jury starts 3-day weekend, leaving behind 1 big question: What is going on here?
- Raffle canceled in campaign to raise money for police dog because of Utah’s antigambling laws
- Lawyer says Iranian woman who faced stoning in adultery case likely tortured into confessing
- Iran state TV airs purported confession by woman who faced death by stoning in adultery case
- Czechs ask US to help in probe into bribery allegations around deal to buy Gripen jet fighters
- Chavez cancels, no heads of state attend as Suriname’s ex-dictator sworn in as president
- Late ex-Congressman Rostenkowski had lamented that his legacy would be tainted by prison term
- Suriname’s ex-dictator returns, brining painful flashbacks and worries for the future
- Rostenkowski was one of Washington’s most powerful lawmakers _ and a symbol of its excesses
- Former Ill. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, who helped shape tax policy before prison stint, dies at 82
- Jurors in Blagojevich trial tell judge they cannot reach agreement on ‘any given count’
- Mexican presidents criticizes low rate of punishment for people who commit violent crimes
- Naomi Campbell’s former agent tells war crimes court she flirted with Charles Taylor
- 19 years for Khmer Rouge prison chief, drug dealers, political scapegoats: justice in Cambodia
- Colombia’s hold over rebel regions still tenuous despite US-backed counterinsurgency plan
- For now, ex-lobbyist chooses to fight charges rather than cooperate with federal prosecutors
- Marilyn Buck, radical jailed 25 years for role in deadly Brink’s heist, dies in NY at age 62
- Afghan president considering new oversight of US-backed units probing corruption
- Aspirations of US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. in limbo after allegations in Blagojevich trial
- Lobby firm owner charged with making hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal contributions
- Cuban human rights group wants 69 political prisoners paroled, despite violent crimes of many
- Ex-NJ mayor sentenced to 2 years in prison for accepting bribes in sweeping corruption sting
- Alaska congressman’s office says he’s cleared in Justice Dept. probe
- Blagojevich could lose home if jurors in his corruption trial convict him
- Freed Cuban dissident begins exile in Chile as political refugee; gov’t providing housing, job
- House Republican fundraising committee pays fine to settle case over alleged embezzlement
- NRCC pays fine to settle case over treasurer embezzlement
- Spying scandal touches Alvaro Uribe’s inner circle as Colombian president set to leave office
- Afghan president seeks more oversight of who is investigated by new anti-corruption task force
- Video showing prisoner chanting ‘Papua freedom’ sheds light on Indonesia’s security forces
- Video showing dying prisoner chanting ‘freedom’ for Papua sheds light on Indonesia’s military
- House ethics committee announces charges against Rep. Waters, setting up possible fall trial
- Federal judge refuses to dismiss Virginia lawsuit challenging national health care reform law
- Turkish military ponders promoting commanders implicated in coup plot
- Detroit mayor’s plans to nominate convicted murderer for police board angers some officers
- Detroit Lions president Tom Lewand suspended 30 days, fined $100,000 for impaired driving
- Mexican soldiers kill top drug lord, dealing major blow to country’s most powerful cartel
- Early and often: Ill. residents to vote twice to fill President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat
- Democrats catch break with Blagojevich trial’s early end, no big-name witnesses
- Former government official arrested as corruption crackdown expands southern China
- Jurors start deliberating corruption charges against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
- Recently freed, paralyzed Cuban political prisoner arrives in Miami; greeted by well-wishers
- Blagojevich jury gets case, to begin deliberations in corruption trial of ex-Illinois governor
- Hundreds of FBI agents investigated by Justice IG over cheating on surveillance rules test
- FBI director defends bureau’s domestic surveillance guidelines, says no racial targeting
- Jurors must decide which portrait of Blagojevich to believe: Naive bumbler or crafty schemer?
- FBI defends its surveillance guidelines as director faces Senate questioning
- SPIN METER: In prospect of a public trial, peril for both veteran chairman and his party
- Jurors will soon get Blagojevich corruption case, competing images of former Ill. governor
- Attorneys offer two portraits of disgraced former governor : naive bumbler or crafty schemer?
- Defense attorney: Blagojevich is insecure talker, bad judge of character, but not a criminal
- AP Impact: Mexico arrests many drug suspects, but few charged and even fewer convicted
- Blagojevich attorney says jurors know from FBI tapes that ex-Ill. governor didn’t commit crime
- Blagojevich attorney says prosecution didn’t prove former Ill. governor guilty of corruption
- Blagojevich defense attorney begins closing argument in corruption trial of ex-Ill. governor
- UK court blocks attempt to extradite ex-Bosnian vice president for war crimes
- Blagojevich judge clashes with defense attorney over closing arguments, sends jury home
- Attorney for former Illinois governor’s brother begins closing arguments, count dropped
- Immigration enforcement through fingerprint program draws fire immigrant groups, some states
- Prosecutors take aim at Blagojevich defense, say alleged attempt to get money, job is a crime
- Prosecutors begin closing arguments in corruption trial of former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich
- Warrants issued for Bangladeshi Islamic party leaders on charges of crimes against humanity
- Closing arguments to start in 7-week corruption trial of former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich
- White House, CIA lawyers in dark before terrorist videos destroyed; evidence of obstruction?
- The number of political prisoners in Cuba still a murky question depending on who’s counting
- Man convicted of attacking Milwaukee’s mayor with tire iron is sentenced to 12 years in prison
- Closing in on final arguments, lawyers to agree on jury instructions in Blagojevich trial
- Paralyzed Cuban political prisoner wins permission to leave island, headed to US next week
- Key question for Blagojevich jurors: Was former Illinois governor just talking or conspiring?
- Blagojevich’s surprise decision not to testify carries high risks, could backfire with jury
- DOJ: Politics influenced firing of US attorney but Bush-era scandal wasn’t criminal
- DOJ: Investigation into fired US attorneys closed, no charges in Bush-era scandal
- AP sources: Investigation into fired US attorneys closed, no charges in Bush-era scandal
- Lawyers for ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich say he will not testify in corruption trial
- Sudan president arrives in Chad, defying international arrest warrant for genocide, war crimes
- Will Blagojevich backpedal on vow to testify at corruption trial? Decision to come quickly
- Dallas man faces up to 5 years in prison after plea in death threat against the president
- Blagojevich’s brother denies role in alleged sale of Senate seat and fundraising corruption
- Blagojevich’s brother testifies that he never tied campaign cash to government business
- A duel of wits and wills: Blagojevich likely to take the stand at corruption trial this week
