US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that the US will be cautious in deciding on the release of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay on terror suspicions. Rice said the decisions were a...
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Tuesday that the refusal of federal judges to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case will not influence an ongoing struggle between Republicans and Democrats over judicial nominations by...
The US will phase in by 2008 tighter border controls requiring US citizens re-entering the country from Canada, Mexico, Panama and Bermuda to have passports, US officials announced Tuesday. Under the new rules made public by the State Department...
Following up on a JURIST report from earlier today, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has acknowledged for the first time that provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act were used in the investigation against Brandon Mayfield,...
Over a dozen insurance companies, including AIG and Chubb Corp. , have pulled their support for establishing a $140 billion federal trust fund to pay claims arising from asbestos-related lawsuits. The move makes it unlikely that...
In Tuesday's international brief, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has questioned the fairness of the recent national elections in Zimbabwe . In a statement issued Monday, Annan said that he was concerned that the electoral process failed to...
The defense team for Mikhail Khodorkovsky delivered its summation Tuesday, arguing that the state had failed to prove that the former CEO of oil giant Yukos had committed any crime....
Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, Enron Task Force prosecutors have asked US District Court Judge Sim Lake to move former Enron chief Ken Lay's trial date for personal banking...
The Bush administration's top law enforcement officials urged renewal and expansion of USA PATRIOT Act provisions in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. FBI Director Robert Mueller asked legislators to expand the FBI's administrative...
Tens of thousands of Sudanese demonstrators Tuesday gathered at UN headquarters and US and UK embassies in Khartoum to protest the recently approved UN resolution turning Sudanese war crimes trials over to the International Criminal Court. The...
