US District Judge Ivan Lemelle on Monday refused to order changes to New Orleans municipal elections scheduled for April 22. Lemelle held a hearing Monday morning to consider arguments from civil rights groups that...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday softened HR 4437 , the controversial immigration reform bill passed by the House in December, by adopting an amendment by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) that...
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) decided in a 6-0 vote Monday to approve rules that include subject Internet advertising to current campaign finance laws. The rules will regulate only paid advertisements on another person's...
Algimantas Dailide , a retired real estate broker from the Cleveland and Gulfport FL areas, was convicted Monday in his Lithuanian hometown on charges of helping the Nazis commit genocide against Jews...
AP is reporting that al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui has testified that he and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid were meant to hijack a fifth airplane and fly it into the White House as part...
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal in Lawrence v. Florida , concerning a challenge to rules surrounding the one-year filing deadline for making habeas corpus claims in federal court....
A UN delegation led by Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel arrived in the south African nation of Burundi Monday to help establish a truth and reconciliation commission and war crimes court. According to Michel,...
Microsoft on Monday appealed a ruling from the South Korean Fair Trade Commission that the company breached antitrust laws by bundling its Windows operating system with Microsoft programs. In the decision ...
Zimbabwe government on Monday announced new anti-terrorism laws that would allow the government to outlaw any group it declares to be a "foreign or international terrorist organization." The proposed Suppression of Foreign and International Terrorism Bill...
The sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui on Monday enters what analysts expect to be a critical week, with testimony from Moussaoui and other key witnesses. Prosecutors concluded their case for giving Moussaoui the death...