Senate moves to restore detainee rights
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Guantanamo prisoners and other  foreigners got a step closer to regaining the right to  challenge their detention in the U.S. courts in a bill approved  in a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday.
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Security in America's courtrooms  would be bolstered in response to attacks on judges in recent  years under a measure approved on Wednesday by the U.S. Senate.
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The Senate voted on Wednesday against considering a measure to give Guantanamo detainees and other foreigners the right to challenge their detention in the U.S. courts.
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A Senate committee will move forward with a bill that would authorize military tribunals to try suspected terrorists without many of the provisions the Bush administration wants, its chairman said Wednesday.
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President Bush and Senate   Republicans reached an agreement on Thursday on a bill spelling   out rules to interrogate and try foreign terrorism suspects,   likely clearing the way for Congress to vote on the measure   next week.
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A Republican filibuster in the Senate today shot down a bipartisan effort to restore the right of terrorism suspects to contest their detentions and treatment in federal courts, underscoring the Democratic-led Congress's difficulty with terrorism issues.
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A Senate committee rebelled against  President George W. Bush on Thursday, passing a bill it said  would protect the rights of foreign terrorism suspects and  repair a U.S. image damaged by harsh treatment of detainees.
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The US Senate passed legislation to reorganize the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies and create a national director of intelligence to oversee efforts to prevent terrorist attacks.
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Senate Republicans rejected complaints that a new law that denies terrorism detainees the right to appeal their detention to federal courts ran against the nationâs principles.
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The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a   bill setting rules for interrogations and prosecutions of   foreign terrorism suspects, sending it to President George W.   Bush to sign into law.
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A rebellious Senate committee defied President Bush on Thursday and approved terror-detainee legislation he has vowed to block, deepening Republican conflict over terrorism and national security in the middle of the election season.
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The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to revive a stalled immigration overhaul backed by President George W. Bush that would offer a path to citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants.
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Detainees held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay are likely take their legal fight back to the US Supreme Court, but the new Congress may step in to give the terror suspects the right to challenge their detention in US courts.
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The US Senate passed legislation Wednesday to bar the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding, a simulated drowning technique denounced by rights groups as torture.
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The Senate this week takes the first step in changing US law to allow foreign-born terror suspects to be tried by US military tribunal.
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The U.S. Senate is likely this week   to pass a bill that outlines rules for interrogating terrorism   suspects and bringing them to trial, Senate Majority Leader   Bill Frist said on Sunday.
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Senate Democrats are backing a bill that would grant new rights to terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including access to a lawyer regardless of whether the prisoners are put on trial.