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The contract agrees to pay $926 million to the United Nations over the next three years. But the dues will only be freed after Clinton yields to a Republican appeal to halt federal financing to international groups that promote abortion rights overseas.
Since 1973, federal law has prohibited the use of U.S. international family planning funds to perform or promote abortion. And since 1981, any international lobbying on abortion has been banned. With this agreement, the anti-abortion Republicans in Congress intend to extend these prohibitions one step further.
Taking to heart the boxing motto that you should lead with your strongest punch, a group of federal prosecutors is trying to use the RICO anti-racketeering statute to shake up the International Boxing Federation as if it were the Gambino crime family. Monday, several New Jersey U.S. attorneys filed...
But tailing someone through cyberspace may be far more revealing of personal details. "If you go to sites about mental health or pornography, that information could be subpoenaed in a civil suit or custody battle and used against you," warns Jason Catlett, president of Junkbusters, a privacy advocacy group. That...
Tightrope walkers, this story's not for you; keyboard bashers, listen up. A federal proposal announced Monday would protect millions of American workers at risk of on-the-job injury - but it's not the construction workers or miners who have been at the center of previous legislation. The types...