The US Securities and Exchange Commission has settled accounting fraud charges against HealthSouth founder and former CEO Richard Scrushy under an agreement announced Monday "that permanently bars Scrushy from serving...
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SEC settles Scrushy accounting fraud case for $81M
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Afghan torture claim prompts calls for Canada defense chief resignation
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Supreme Court hears arguments in auto passenger rights case
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Supreme Court vacates Missouri partial birth abortion ban ruling
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Russian lawmaker says UK must extradite alleged coup plotter Berezovsky
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Rwanda ex-military officer denies responsibility for 1994 killings in Belgian trial
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Ex-Apple lawyer could face SEC lawsuit for options backdating
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US Supreme Court to hear money laundering case
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San Francisco mayor to maintain city’s status as illegal immigrant ‘sanctuary’
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Nigeria ruling party wins poll but EU insists result not ‘credible’
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Thirty terror suspects were tortured by Afghan security forces after being being transferred from Canadian custody, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported Monday. The detainees gave accounts of being beaten, electrocuted, starved, and left in freezing temperatures while...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Brendlin v. California , 06-8120, in which the Court must determine whether an automobile passenger, convicted on drug charges resulting from...
The US Supreme Court issued an order Monday that vacated a 2005 decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit striking down Missouri's 1999 "partial birth" abortion ban....
The United Kingdom cannot legally continue to provide political asylum to Russian billionaire and alleged coup plotter Boris Berezovsky and refuse to extradite him, the chairman of the Russian State Duma's Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Law...
Bernard Ntuyahaga , a former Rwandan army major, denied at trial Monday any involvement in the 1994 murder of 10 Belgian peacekeepers and the Rwandan prime minister they were charged with protecting. Ntuyahaga said he was being used...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may file a lawsuit against former Apple, Inc. General Counsel Nancy Heinin for allegations of backdating two 2001 stock option grants, Heinin's lawyers said Monday. The incidents in...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in US v. Santos 06-1005 , where the Court will consider the definition of proceeds in relation to illegal money laundering schemes under 18...
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom pledged Sunday to keep the city a haven for immigrants, saying that while he cannot stop US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from making arrests, he will try to...
The head of Nigeria's electoral commission announced Monday that ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Umaru Yar'Adua won the country's weekend presidential election by a landslide - taking 24.6 million votes as against...
