Lawrence Greenfeld, former director of the US Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) , has been demoted, several months after he complained that the Bush administration was interfering with the release of a report detailing racial profiling...
US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday that the US Department of Homeland Security is preparing to increase its efforts to deal with the problem of illegal immigration. Last week, Arizona declared a state...
The British government Wednesday unveiled a list of "unacceptable behaviors" that would qualify foreigners inciting hatred to be deported or barred from entry into the UK. Home Secretary Charles Clarke said the measure, designed to...
Six unidentified members of California's Fullerton-based Alpha Company Army National Guard have been accused of mistreating detainees in Iraq and will face courts-martial , officials announced Tuesday after investigating reports of abuse by 12 soldiers. The soldiers face...
Hong Kong High Court Judge Michael Hartmann ruled Wednesday that laws prohibiting gay sex are unconstitutional and discriminatory and violate Hong Kong's Basic Law and the Bill of Rights . Under existing...
The director of Russia's federal penal service has denied reports made on Tuesday that Mikhail Khodorkovsky , the former CEO of oil company Yukos , has gone on a hunger strike to...
Sunni Arabs, Shiites and Kurds began a new round of talks in Iraq Wednesday, seeking to agree on several disputed areas of the draft Iraqi constitution . Many, including US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad ,...
Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, Northwest Airlines continued service today, the second full business day of strikes by their mechanics' union. In what some are seeing as a serious blow to organized labor , the airline...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is examining whether investors paid researchers to reveal information about ongoing drug studies in order to profit from the results before they were available to the public. Earlier this month, The...
New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte has determined that there is "an insufficient basis for appeal" against the recent dismissal of trespassing charges against two illegal immigrants brought by state officials. Judge L. Phillips Runyon dismissed the trespassing violations...