French authorities questioned a second "rogue trader" Friday in their investigation into the massive financial losses of French Bank Societe Generale , Le Monde reported Friday. The French newspaper reported that French authorities questioned the undisclosed trader about...

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by business groups challenging the Legal Arizona Workers Act , saying that the law does not overstep the federal government's...

New Jersey pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck has agreed to pay $671 million to settle claims that it defrauded Medicaid and improperly marketed three of its drugs to doctors, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The settlement [PDF...

Amnesty International Canada, et al., v. Chief of the Defence Staff for the Canadian Forces, et al., Federal Court of Canada, February 7, 2008 [refusing to issue interlocutory injunction that would have prohibited the Canadian military from turning over detainees...

The French Senate and National Assembly Thursday approved the new EU reform treaty , properly known as the Treaty of Lisbon . The treaty now goes to French President Nicolas...

Canadian Federal Court Justice Anne Mactavish Thursday refused to issue an interlocutory injunction that would have prohibited the Canadian military from turning over detainees to Afghan authorities. Amnesty International Canada and the British Columbia Civil...

Former Yukos executive and lawyer Vasily Aleksanian will be transferred from jail to a civilian clinic for medical treatment, Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service said Thursday. The announcement apparently reverses a Wednesday Russian court ruling denying Aleksanian...

The UK Home Office Thursday approved the extradition of Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States on charges of supporting terrorism. Abu Hamza, currently serving a seven-year sentence in the...

Lawyers for Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan argued at a preliminary hearing Thursday that the charges against Hamdan should be dropped because his alleged crimes were not considered violations of...

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey Thursday rejected Democratic calls to launch a Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into the CIA's admitted use of waterboarding on three terror detainees. In testimony before the House...