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Eleven suspects charged in connection with the foiled terror plot to bomb airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean appeared in a UK court for the first time Tuesday. Eight defendants were remanded in...

UK authorities on Monday charged 11 people in connection with the foiled terror plot to bomb airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Eight were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and with preparing acts of terrorism,...

One of the terror suspects arrested in London earlier this month in connection with the foiled terror plot to bomb airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean has challenged his continued detention in a London court. Lawyers for "Detainee...

British authorities investigating a foiled terror plot to bomb airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean last week released a suspect without charge on Thursday. The suspect was arrested Tuesday. London's Metropolitan Police Service...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Wednesday praised new British anti-terrorism laws that helped thwart a terror plot to explode jetliners traveling over the Atlantic Ocean, saying that the provision that...

The US Senate voted 71-25 Tuesday to approve the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 , which would allow oil and gas drilling in about 8.3 million acres of federal waters...

The US House of Representatives voted 232-187 Thursday to approve the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act , which "provide for exploration, development, and production activities for mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf ."...

Rapanos v. US & Carabell v. Army Corps of Engineers, Supreme Court of the United States, June 19, 2006 [holding that the Clean Water Act applies only to bodies of water that are "permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of...

The US Supreme Court handed down three decisions in argued cases Monday, including a ruling in the consolidated cases of Rapanos v. US and Carabell v. Army Corps of Engineers [Duke Law case backgrounder;...

Bancoult, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs EWHC 1038, UK High Court of Justice, Divisional Court, May 11, 2006 [ruling that a group of Indian Ocean islanders known as the Chagossians...