The Idaho State Senate passed a bill in a 29-6 vote Monday that would block illegal immigrants from using most taxpayer-financed public assistance programs. S-1157 would require that applicants eighteen years of age or older to...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed fraud charges Monday against former executives of Canadian telecommunications manufacturer Nortel Networks , accusing the corporation of misleading investors. The complaint , brought...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed member nations to work with the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday, telling UNHRC members at the opening of the council's first 2007 session that it...

A New Jersey jury awarded a plaintiff $20 million in the latest Vioxx litigation on Monday. The jury found that the drug, distributed by Merck , caused the plaintiff's heart attack and that...

A lawyer for Zimbabwe opposition presidential hopeful Morgan Tsvangirai , who was arrested by government forces Sunday, alleged Monday that police beat Tsvangirai after he was taken into custody. Party officials similarly said...

The US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania heard opening statements Monday in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of two laws passed by the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania that make...

An appeals court in Egypt has affirmed the four-year prison sentence imposed on Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil at a hearing Monday, according to court officials speaking to AP on condition of...

Only one in five US federal agencies actually complies with the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments (E-FOIA) , according to a report released Monday by the National Security Archive . The...

Several high-ranking Democratic senators have called for the resignation of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in the wake of revelations in an official audit that the FBI broke and misused laws in the process of...

Lawyers in Uganda began a three-day strike Monday in response to the March 1 siege of the Ugandan High Court . The 830 members of the Uganda Law Society (ULA) voted last week...