Topic: Presidential Powers
President Barack Obama plans to deal with a Dec. 31 deadline that automatically would declassify secrets in more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents by ordering government-wide changes that could sharply curb the number of new and old government records hidden from ...
LAGOS (Reuters) - A leading Nigerian human rights lawyer has launched legal action to try to force President Umaru Yar'Adua to hand executive powers to his deputy while he is receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. Femi Falana, who was a prominent pro-democracy campaigner during military rule in Nigeria, said on Wednesday that decisions made by the cabinet in Yar ...
The North Carolina Film Council is staying in business. Gov. Beverly Perdue will sign an executive order reauthorizing the council on Thursday at EUE Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington. Also attending the signing are: the vice president of EUE Screen Gems, Bill Vassar; Lynn Minges of the ...
