Leaders of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) , the Mexican political party led by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , the leftist candidate challenging the results of Mexico's disputed July 2 presidential...
An Israeli military court has authorized the continued detention of Palestinian parliament speaker Aziz Dweik until August 22. Dweik was arrested at his home in Ramallah on August 5 for being...
US federal prosecutors on Thursday charged former Hollinger CEO Conrad Black with additional counts of tax evasion in connection with the $2.1 billion sale of several hundred Canadian newspapers and alleged abuse of corporate...
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the tobacco industry is liable for civil racketeering charges filed against the industry by the DOJ in 1999. Federal prosecutors filed suit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt...
A New Jersey state court on Thursday vacated a November verdict finding Merck not liable for the heart attack of Frederick Humeston, who suffered a heart attack in September 2001 after taking Merck's painkiller Vioxx [Merck Vioxx...
The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional a state voting law that lists the election candidate of the winning party in the preceding state general election first on the ballot....
President Bush on Thursday signed into law the Pension Protection Act of 2006 , which he called the "most sweeping reform" of US pension law since the enactment of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...
Delaware must make their public documents available to residents of other states, according to a ruling handed down Wednesday by the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Delaware's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as...
Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon on Wednesday filed a notice of appeal with the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit , and told reporters that he intends to appeal a federal court ruling [PDF...
Peruvian prosecutors have filed informal charges against Ollanta Humala , the opposition leader who narrowly lost the recent presidential election to Alan Garcia, for murder, torture and kidnapping stemming from his position as an...
