Several rights groups and two African-American registered Georgia voters have filed a lawsuit challenging a Georgia law that requires voters to show government-issued photo identification at the polls. The plaintiffs – including Common Cause/Georgia, the League of Women Voters of Georgia, the NAACP, the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus – are seeking to have the law [...]
Six fellow inmates of jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky are planning on running against him for a seat in Russia's State Duma. Candidates began registering with the elections commission Monday as the race officially began, though neither Khodorkovsky nor any other inmates have yet filed their registrations in Moscow's Universitesky district. Khodorkovsky, who is [...]
AP is reporting that former Hollinger International President and COO and former Chicago Sun-Times publisher David Radler has pleaded guilty to his role in diverting $32 million from Hollinger. 11:34 AM ET – Radler was indicted last month on federal mail and wire fraud charges and Tuesday's plea was widely expected . Radler was charged [...]
Discussions are ongoing between at least five online music file-sharing companies and recording industry executives in an attempt to convert the networks, which allow users to freely swap music over the internet, to paid services. Several companies have initiated settlement discussions following the US Supreme Court's decision in June in MGM v. Grokster , which [...]
An Indonesian court Tuesday rejected a request to drop a pollution case against US gold mining company Newmont Mining and the company's local subsidiary president director Richard Ness. Ness, from Ada, MN, will stand trial on October 7 and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $68,000 fine if convicted of dumping mercury [...]
Carla del Ponte, the United Nations' chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , said Monday that the Roman Catholic Church and Vatican officials are concealing the location of the third most wanted war criminal from the Yugoslav conflict, General Ante Gotovina . Gotovina is believed to be hiding in a [...]
A lawyer for Saddam Hussein said Tuesday that his defense team still has not been informed by Iraqi authorities of the trial date and charges pressed against the ousted Iraqi leader and reiterated doubts about the impartiality of the proceeding. Khalil Dulaimi said in a statement to AFP, "We have not been duly informed about [...]
A lawyer for 11 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay says that 90 percent of the 505 prison camp detainees are participating in a hunger strike in "varying degrees," while US military officials have said that only 91 detainees are participating. The military defines a hunger strike as missing 9 or more consecutive meals, while Kristine [...]
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali , an American student who was detained in Saudi Arabia, claims to be the mastermind behind the plot to kill President Bush , according to court papers released Monday. The US Department of Justice, who charged Abu Ali for his role in the plot and for his link to al-Qaeda , [...]
David Safavian , a former Bush administration official who served as the chief of staff of the General Services Administration (GSA) and until Friday served as the administration's top procurement official in the Office of Management and Budget , was charged Monday with making false statements and obstructing a federal investigation. The charges stem from [...]
