Dr. Wen Ho Lee , the US nuclear scientist at one time suspected of stealing nuclear secrets for China, Friday settled a civil lawsuit he had brought against the US Department of Justice and...
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A federal judge on Friday approved a $153 million settlement between tax firm KPMG and 200 of its former clients in a class action lawsuit based on illegal tax shelters sold by the firm from 1996 to...
Canadian Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday that he will ask MPs to vote this fall on a federal law permitting same-sex marriage . The Liberal Party of former prime minister Paul Martin, which now...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Friday sentenced Joseph Serugendo to six years in prison for direct and public incitement to commit genocide and persecution as a crime against humanity under...
Nearly 200,000 people rallied in Kathmandu outside the palace of King Gyanendra Friday in a protest organized by Nepal's Maoist rebel insurgency to pressure the new government into speeding up plans to elect a special...
A federal district judge sitting in Florida has ruled that a 2005->Ch1003->Section%2044#1003.44">state law requiring students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional and that a student...
US Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann has said that US troops cannot be prosecuted under Afghan law, striking a sharp contrast to statements made Thursday by Afghan Deputy Chief Justice Abdul Malik Kamawi that all foreigners who...
A federal judge in Michigan has ordered the National Security Agency to respond to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the legality of the NSA's domestic surveillance program . US District...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller plan to resume talks on Friday with major internet service providers on retaining customer data on internet activities that would allow them to better combat child pornography and terrorism....
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has criticized the UN-funded International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) as inefficient, and said that several ICTR employees should be testifying before the court for their...
