A federal judge on Wednesday blocked New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer from investigating national banks' lending practices, which Spitzer believed to be charging minorities higher interest rates on home mortgage loans. US District Judge Sydney H....

The US Department of Justice has issued an apology for thefts by US soldiers of valuables belonging to Hungarian Jews found on a Nazi train captured at the close of World War II. The DOJ apologized for...

The former CEO of Refco , one of the largest commodities brokerage firms in the world, was charged with securities fraud Wednesday for an alleged $430 million debt to the company that he hid from...

The trial of 45 Italian police and medical staff accused of unlawful violence against protesters at the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa opened Wednesday. The charges stem from violent clashes between protestors and police outside...

AP is reporting that Iraq's parliament speaker has said that the National Assembly has approved a compromise deal on the Iraqi constitution . Under the deal , a commission will be established to consider future amendments...

Haiti's Supreme Court has ruled that a Haitian-born US citizen can run in the upcoming presidential elections . The country's provisional Electoral Council had decided that US businessman Dumarsais Simeus could not run in the election, but the...

Senior Israeli Defense Forces officers, under instruction from Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz , asked the Israeli Supreme Court Tuesday to reconsider last week's ruling banning the use of Palestinian civilians as human...

US District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee watched a videotaped confession Tuesday where Ahmed Omar Abu Ali , accused of plotting to assassinate President Bush, said that he was motivated by hatred of American support for Israel. Lee is...

The British government introduced a tough new anti-terror bill in the House of Commons Wednesday, bringing forward measures anticipated since soon after the July 7 London bombings that killed 52 commuters. Among...

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has released information from 126 clergy personnel files that shows that the archdiocese moved priests accused of sexual abuse between therapy and new assignments for over 75 years. The documents,...