The US House of Representatives Oversight Committee said Monday that e-mail records for 51 of 88 White House officials being investigated for potential Presidential Records Act (PRA) violations were missing , finding that...

President Bush's use of bill signing statements has led to several instances where provisions of laws have been ignored in favor of the Bush administration's interpretation, according to a report released...

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday that there were four elements he would not accept in any EU treaty. In remarks made to the House of Commons Liaison Committee , Blair acknowledged that it...

Senior UN officials from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Monday urged countries to cooperate in the capture of numerous fugitives who remain at...

The UN Security Council said Monday it has approved a request by Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to aid his country in the investigation of the murder of anti-Syrian legislator Walid Eido [BBC...

Former Enron broadband division chief Kenneth Rice was sentenced to 27 months in prison Monday and ordered to forfeit almost $15 million as part of a plea deal with prosecutors for...

EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini Monday said that many EU member states have failed to implement EU legislation to combat corruption by making bribery through an intermediary a criminal offense and...

Brendlin v. California, US Supreme Court, June 18, 2007 . Read the Court's unanimous opinion per Justice...

Israeli human rights group B'Tselem called Monday for Hamas leaders in Gaza to investigate and bring to trial anyone who may have committed war crimes , citing reported incidents of violence against children and civilians during...

Credit Suisse First Boston v. Billing, US Supreme Court, June 18, 2007 [holding that federal antitrust laws do not apply to a case where investors are filing a class action lawsuit against underwriters and institutional investors for their alleged manipulation...