The US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved a $140 billion asbestos compensation fund in a 13-5 vote. The controversial fund is to be paid for by companies facing asbestos litigation and their...
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The verdict reading for oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky continued into its ninth day Thursday. Khodorkovsky, former CEO of Russian oil firm Yukos , and his partner Platon Lebedev have been indicted for fraud and...
Thailand's Constitutional Court Thursday found the members of Thailand's anti-corruption commission, the National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) , guilty of illegally increasing their pay. The court, however, did not enforce possible two year jail sentences in...
The judge presiding over the trial of former HealthSouth Corp CEO Richard Scrushy , attempted Wednesday to prevent the trial from ending in a mistrial or a hung jury. Scrushy is on trial for conspiracy, fraud,...
The Federal Election Commission announced Thursday that the Democratic National Committee , the Rev. Jesse Jackson and two groups Jackson works closely will pay a total of $200,000 in civil fines for...
The US House of Representatives has passed a $491 billion defense measure, HR 1815 , which among other things leaves any decisions on the placement of women in war zones up to the Pentagon pending Congressional approval. House...
Leading Thursday's international brief, government lawyers for the Royal Commission for Corruption Control have begun arguments before the commission in the case against former Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba , former Foreign Minister Prakash Man Singh and...
As the search for bodies entered its 8th day Thursday, a Chilean military prosecutor said the officers commanding 46 teenage soldiers killed in a blizzard during a training march in the Andes face possible charges and prison sentences. According...
Log of (and links to) FBI records of interviews with Guantanamo detainees in 2002 and 2003 concerning treatment of prisoners and of the Koran by US personnel [containing allegations that military jailers flushed the Koran down the toilet and in...
The National Conference of State Legislatures , a body which tracks state law developments, has found 26 states are considering new proposals for voting laws. The most important issue under review in many states is proof of identity...
