Topic: U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was honored Friday with the 2013 Lantos Human Rights Award.

U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., died Monday of complications from esophageal cancer at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland at the age of 80.

U.S. firms helping China with one of the world's most advanced public surveillance systems are violating the spirit of human-rights sanctions, critics say.

U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., said contractor deficiencies at the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad could delay the facility's planned opening.

U.S. taxpayers footed the bill for last week's tour of Caribbean resorts by members of Congress.

Now that Democrats have won control of the U.S. Congress, key lawmakers are offering to work with U.S. President George Bush to steer a new course out of Iraq.

Hungary's new president announced he won't visit the United States as long as it demands fingerprints from foreign visitors.

Russia sentenced the founder of the Yukos energy group and a partner to nine years behind bars Tuesday for fraud and tax evasion.

Full ties between Libya and the United States are expected to be restored early next year after the U.S. presidential elections, U.S. officials said.

U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., Saturday became the first top U.S. official to visit Libya in over 30 years.

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New Hampshire, one of a handful of states never to have elected a woman to Congress, has the rare opportunity to send three of them to Washington, D.C., this fall. The Democrats nominated a full slate of female candidates in Tuesday's primary, one for the