As countries around the world celebrate International Women's Day, the hunt is on in the U.S. Senate for 67 senators willing to vote for a global women's rights treaty. ...more

March 8, 2009

Afghanistan's president criticized civilian casualties from foreign bombing raids, telling world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that innocent deaths can seriously undermine the legitimacy of efforts to fight terrorism. ...more

September 25, 2008

Iran's president accused "a few bullying powers" of trying to thwart his country's peaceful nuclear program and declared in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly that "the American empire" is nearing collapse. ...more

September 24, 2008

I've demanded it before, to no avail. ...more

August 3, 2008

Chiles Elementary students can expect a busy December. ...more

November 15, 2007

Chiles Elementary students can expect a busy December. ...more

November 15, 2007

Britain, Japan, Australia and others are pushing for an unprecedented treaty regulating the arms trade worldwide, in a campaign likely to last years and to pit them against a determined American foe, the National Rifle Association. ...more

October 1, 2007

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that the continued flow of weapons, suicide bombers and terrorism funding into his country would result in 'disastrous consequences' for the region and the world. ...more

September 27, 2007

Plaintiffs vowed to take the fight over gay marriage in Maryland to the Legislature after the state's highest court threw out a suit Tuesday challenging a law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ...more

September 19, 2007