A former vice chair of Wal-Mart was sentenced on Friday to 27 months of house arrest after he pleaded guilty in January to fraud and tax charges for stealing money, merchandise and...
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Former Wal-Mart exec sentenced to 27 months house arrest for fraud, tax evasion
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Italy arrests 40 in security sweep prompted by foiled UK terror plot
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Maryland early voting plan struck down
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Federal appeals court rules random NY subway searches constitutional
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UN rights council rebukes Israel for human rights violations in Lebanon
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France agrees to ICJ jurisdiction in dispute with Djibouti over judge’s death
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CIA turns over secret presidential briefing summaries to Libby defense team
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Congo arrests six election officials for ballot fraud
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Turkish lawyer charged with shooting judge disrupts trial as proceedings begin
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Kentucky judge rules governor immune from corrupt hiring practices trial while in office
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The Italian Interior Ministry said Friday that Italian police arrested 40 people on Thursday and Friday after the ministry decided to conduct security sweeps in cities across Italy following Thursday's news that UK police arrested...
A Maryland intermediate appellate court on Friday ruled that the state exceeded its state constitutional authority by enacting statutes permitting early voting. In the opinion , a judge for the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court found...
A federal appeals court Friday upheld New York City's program of random, suspicionless baggage searches on subways as constitutional. The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the search program "satisfies the special needs...
The UN Human Rights Council in an emergency special session in Geneva Friday adopted by majority vote a resolution condemning Israel for violating international human rights laws in the ongoing Middle...
France has consented to the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a dispute with the East African country of Djibouti over an investigation into the alleged assassination of a French judge in...
The CIA reported in documents filed Thursday in the leak case involving former vice-presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby that it has turned over to Libby's defense team redacted...
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have arrested six election officials in Kinshasa for electoral fraud after an opposition group alleged widespread irregularities in July's presidential election . Authorities...
Turkish lawyer Alpaslan Aslan, on trial for the murder of a Turkish judge , caused a courtroom commotion Friday when, during the opening of his trial, his request to leave court to pray was denied, and he was...
A judge in Kentucky ruled Friday that executive immunity protects Gov. Ernie Fletcher from prosecution for alleged corrupt hiring practices while he is in office. Fletcher pleaded not guilty in June to charges...
