The US Securities and Exchange Commission is examining whether investors paid researchers to reveal information about ongoing drug studies in order to profit from the results before they were available to the public. Earlier this month, The...
New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte has determined that there is "an insufficient basis for appeal" against the recent dismissal of trespassing charges against two illegal immigrants brought by state officials. Judge L. Phillips Runyon dismissed the trespassing violations...
Royal Dutch/Shell Group has said that it will appeal a decision which allows a class action lawsuit for stock fraud to continue against the company. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the suit, questioning whether Shell's statements...
Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff , who faces federal bank fraud charges related to a casino deal, expressed his willingness Tuesday to speak with investigators about the death of Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis. Abramoff is charged [DOJ press...
A US Department of Defense analyst and two former officials of the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified national defense information....
Kurdish leaders insisted Tuesday that they do not plan to secede from Iraq even though they want the new Iraqi constitution to provide the group the right to self-determination in order to protect themselves from potential...
Former WorldCom accounting director Buford Yates was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Tuesday for his role in the company's billion-dollar business fraud. In 2002 Yates pleaded guilty in...
A three-judge panel of the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta overturned the convictions and sentences of five accused Cuban spies Tuesday, ruling that their trial in Miami was biased due...
New Saudi King Abdullah has pardoned four activists jailed after criticizing the strict religious environment and the slow pace of democratic reform in Saudi Arabia. In June, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had called...
Former Bosnia Serb General Vinko Pandurevic pleaded not guilty Tuesday to war crimes charges linked to the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of over 7,000 Muslim males. Pandurevic was indicted five years ago on...
