The US House of Representatives Wednesday passed the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 , which closes a loophole that allowed Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho to purchase firearms despite a court order...
European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx expressed concern in letters sent Monday to the Portuguese ministers for justice and the interior that privacy and data protection are increasingly being sacrificed in the...
Interim Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont Tuesday invited his ousted predecessor to return to Thailand to challenge allegations made against him and the recent seizure of $1.5 billion in assets amassed from the...
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood filed a lawsuit against State Farm Monday, alleging that the insurance company committed a bad faith breach of contract related to a settlement reached on...
The US Office of Special Counsel officially recommended Monday that General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Lurita Doan "be disciplined to the fullest extent" for blatant disregard of the 1939 Hatch Act . In a...
Human Rights in China (HRIC) said Monday that the state secrets system in China gives the government virtually complete power to halt the free flow of information, "undermining healthy governance and rule of law."...
A US Nuremberg trials prosecutor denounced the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay in an interview with Reuters published Monday. Henry King Jr. , now in his 80s but still a professor...
Thailand's Assets Examination Committee (AEC) ordered the assets of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife frozen on Monday, saying the $1.6 billion dollars should not be touched until a court determines if...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in three cases to be heard next term, two of which deal with federal sentencing guidelines. In Kimbrough v. US (06-6330) the court...
The Supreme Court of Georgia Monday dismissed a challenge to Georgia's voter ID law , finding that the plaintiff lacked standing to mount the challenge , without addressing the...
