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13 Jul 2007, 5:45 am
[JURIST] The total number of aliens detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [official website] annually for immigration violations jumped from approximately 95,000 to 283,000 between 2001 and 2006, according to a report [PDF text] by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) [official website]. [read post]
15 Jun 2006, 2:27 am
Government officials told the CCR that no guards are available to [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 2:24 am
[JURIST] US military forces in Iraq released 500 detainees at a joint ceremony with the Iraqi government on Thursday at Camp Victory outside Baghdad. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 6:52 am
A United Nations special investigator has accused the American government of pouring billions of dollars into rescuing banks and big business while treating as "invisible" a deepening homeless crisis.Raquel Rolnik, the UN special rapporteur for the right to adequate housing, who has just completed a seven-city tour of America, said it was shameful that a country as wealthy as the US was not spending more money on lifting its citizens out of homelessness and substandard,… [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 5:44 am
On March 18, 2010, the US Supreme Court unveiled its newly developed website. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 1:39 am
"Mike" McConnell [official profile], who succeeded John Negroponte as US Director of National Intelligence in February, delivered a policy address [PDF text] to the 2007 Excellence in Government Conference [website] Wednesday criticizing federal surveillance laws as outdated and unresponsive to terrorist threats. [read post]
25 May 2005, 10:34 am
The report says US policies which came to light after the Abu Ghraib [read post]
15 Oct 2003, 11:35 am
ABCNEWS.com reports that the US is hopeful its new Iraq resolution will pass a UN Security Council vote Wednesday evening.... [read post]
7 Dec 2005, 11:10 pm
[JURIST] The US House [official website] has voted to renew the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 [PDF text], under which the federal government guarantees insurance coverage for catastrophic losses caused by terror attacks. [read post]
23 Mar 2006, 11:23 am
For the past few days, protestors have called for the government to take action against the mine in order to control the production of waste ore called tailings that could cause landslides or [read post]
16 Jan 2004, 7:59 am
Responding to objections raised by leading Iraqi Shi'ite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the US may consider changes to its plans to conduct regional caucuses as a means of transferring control of Iraq to a transitional Iraqi government. [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 8:47 am
[JURIST] The government of Bahrain has reverted to using torture [press release] to gain confessions from detainees after a decade of reform banning such practices, according to a report [text] released Monday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website]. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 2:00 am
The rules were created to protect the water supply and promote […] The post DEP Announces Updated Rules for Watershed Recreation Use appeared first on CityLand. [read post]
12 Sep 2005, 1:21 am
A 2004 Ontario government report [PDF text] discussed the possibility of applying Islamic law to the settlement of family disputes, and [read post]
27 Jan 2005, 7:38 pm
[JURIST] Responding to violence in Sudan's western Darfur region [Human Rights Watch backgrounder] that has claimed some 70,000 lives, US lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill Thursday to call on world leaders to put pressure on both rebels and government forces to halt the bloodshed. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 1:34 pm
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] on Wedneday voted to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA) [text, PDF], a highly contested law designed as a national security protection against terrorism and other foreign threats. [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 6:20 am
Just a week before Congress left for its wintertime recess, the government lifted a long-standing ban on the creation of lethal viruses. [read post]
15 Dec 2005, 2:22 am
[JURIST] The US House committee investigating the government's actions in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina [JURIST news archive] issued a subpoena Wednesday commanding Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [official profile] to turn over internal records on the Pentagon's efforts to stabilize public safety, mobilize active duty forces in the region and send supplies to victims. [read post]
20 Jul 2005, 2:52 pm
The US last returned Saudi detainees in May 2003, when five men were sent home [Reuters report], where they were then [read post]
26 Feb 2005, 11:08 am
The retrial motion relies on a section of the bankruptcy code that is governed by a standard of what is in the [read post]
