Italy has arrested 141 people in an ongoing security sweep , begun expulsion procedures against 701 people, and questioned almost 33,000 people since last month's terrorist attacks in London and Egypt, Italy's Ministry of the Interior [official website,...

Iraqi leaders confirmed Tuesday that key unresolved issues in drafting the Iraqi constitution lead to Monday's one-week deadline extension . According to Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shiite, the primary issues of contention are distribution...

In a 1985 memo to White House counsel Fred Fielding released Monday, US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts stated that the Court's ruling in Wallace v. Jaffree , striking down an Alabama law mandating a one-minute...

The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York has failed to turn over videotapes showing interviews of aliens held on immigration charges during the investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, US Department of Justice...

After signing amended provisions of the Palestinian Basic Law relating to elections over the weekend, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced Monday that parliamentary elections delayed in July because of problems with the electoral law are now...

US Department of Justice attorneys asked a US District Court Monday to replace the judge presiding over an Indian trust class-action lawsuit filed in 1996. Class representatives in Corbell v. Norton are suing to force the federal...

In an interview with the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper to be published Tuesday, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel , whose country is scheduled to take over the six-month rotating EU presidency from the UK at the...

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law brief, the New York Stock Exchange says it has censured and fined Merrill Lynch for what it called "supervisory and operational lapses." In a press release, the NYSE indicated it has fined the...

Leading Monday's states brief, the Rhode Island Supreme Court heard oral arguments today on whether a casino proposed by the Narragansett Indian tribe and the Las Vegas-based Harrah's Entertainment would be a constitutional expansion of...

The Iraqi National Assembly has voted unanimously to allow a seven-day extension to allow Iraq's constitutional committee time to finish drafting the Iraqi constitution . From Baghdad, the Iraq the Model weblog carries updates on...