Iowa's Attorney General's Office announced on Tuesday that it has filed a complaint against meatpacking company Agriprocessors Inc. and its top officials for 9,311 child labor law violations. The alleged violations...

Retail chain Walgreens filed a lawsuit Monday in California Superior Court seeking an injunction and the repeal of an ordinance that prohibits the sale of tobacco at...

Human Rights in China (HRIC) issued a release on Wednesday saying that Chinese police and other officials still employ torture to elicit confessions and intimidate political dissidents despite domestic and international bans. The...

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that the state has reached a settlement in a Medicare fraud lawsuit it had brought against drug manufacturer Abbott Laboratories . In the suit [complaint,...

The UK Crown Prosecution Service announced Wednesday that seven Muslim extremists accused of conspiring to bomb trans-Atlantic flights will be retried because a jury failed to reach verdicts earlier this week. In a prepared statement,...

Serge Brammertz , the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , told reporters in Serbia Wednesday that he was "cautiously optimistic" that two major remaining war crimes fugitives would...

A Malaysian court on Wednesday set a September 24 hearing date for arguments over approval of an application to transfer of sodomy charges against Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that a peace plan approved on Monday between the European Union (EU) and Georgia to allow EU monitors in the...

The District Court of the Hague on Wednesday dismissed claims alleging the Dutch government negligently failed to protect civilians during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . The relatives of several Bosnian Muslims killed at Srebrenica argued...

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials on Wednesday told Congress that a 670-mile fence along the US-Mexican border is unlikely to be completed as planned by year's end because of cost...