After efforts to reach a long-term renewal of the USA Patriot Act stalled again last week, Congress is set to approve another short-term extension of the legislation to allow continued negotiations on the balance between...
In a report to the UN Security Council Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed "serious concern" with the slow progress in implementing eight benchmarks set by the UN for Kosovo [UN Interim...
Leading Wednesday's environmental law news, Judge John Suddock of the Alaska Superior Court has ruled that owners of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline have been overcharging in-state refineries for crude oil transport. The ruling upholds a...
Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, the US Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to release the final draft of a rule that will establish standards for pesticide research on human subjects . In August...
Leading Thursday's environmental law news, Maine has became the first state in the US to require manufacturers to pay the cost of recycling computer monitors and televisions under a program that began Wednesday pursuant to Maine's...
A New Orleans judge said Tuesday that criminal trials in New Orleans could resume by March when the courts will try to deal with the 3,000 trials pending before Hurricane Katrina swept through the...
News agencies in Italy reported Tuesday that Italian prosecutors plan to charge a US soldier with murdering Italian secret service agent Nicola Calipari and the attempted murder of an Italian journalist during a shooting at a US checkpoint in...
Switzerland's foreign affairs committee on Tuesday voted against denouncing the United States over purported secret CIA prisons in Europe for terror suspects after members concluded they lacked sufficient evidence. Committee head Luzi Stamm told reporters that...
Democratic Senator Ben Nelson (NE) on Tuesday became the first in his party to show his support for US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito . Nelson, seen as a moderate leader in Congress, said...
Leading Thursday's environmental law news, the Alaska Bureau of Land Management has issued a Record of Decision Wednesday that will open approximately 500,000 acres of land in the National Petroleum Reserve ...
