The US Securities and Exchange Commission voted 5-0 at a public meeting Wednesday to give small public companies an additional extra year to comply with requirements to file reports on the strength of their internal financial controls under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 . As with last year's extension for small businesses , the SEC [...]

The office of the New Jersey Attorney General has announced that the state will oversee a county-by-county probe into allegations of election irregularities brought by Republicans. NJ Attorney General Peter Harvey said the state would have some involvement in the investigation and report its findings but added that county officials would lead the probe because [...]

The US Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the nomination of Judge John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States by a vote of 13-5 with all Republican members voting for and five Democrats voting against. Earlier this week, Roberts received an endorsement from Sen. Arlen Specter, chair of the Judiciary Committee, and also received [...]

More prisoners are on California's death row for murdering whites than for killing people of any other race, despite the fact that were more black and Hispanic murder victims during the same time period, according to a new study to be published in the Santa Clara Law Review . The study, which has not yet [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Thursday that it will combine the cases of nine Bosnian Serb military officers accused of participating in the Srebrenica massacre that resulted in the murders of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys. The massacre, which the UN-backed war crimes tribunal has ruled a genocide, was [...]

Two US Army soldiers have been charged with prisoner abuse in an ongoing investigation into the deaths of two Afghan prisoners while in US custody, which has already led to charges being filed against 14 soldiers, the military said Wednesday. Both Sgt. Alan J. Driver and Spc. Nathan Adam Jones have been charged with assault [...]

A appeals hearing for Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was delayed again Thursday after his lawyer asked for more time to prepare, saying he had been unable to meet with Khodorkovsky in prison before Thursday's hearing. Hearings in Khodorkovsky's appeal of his conviction for fraud and tax evasion had previously been rescheduled because his main [...]

France, Germany and Great Britain, the EU's three major powers, have decided to drop their support for a US-backed draft resolution calling on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to report Iran's nuclear program to the UN Security Council , according to statements from diplomats Thursday. The countries opted to discontinue their support after resistance [...]

After months of absolute rule by King Gyanendra , Nepal will move forward with local elections by April 2006 and national elections within two years, Nepalese Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. The announcement was the first clear signal by Nepal's government as to when it plans to hold [...]

A Mexican judge on Wednesday refused to issue an arrest warrant for former President Luis Echeverria and seven other officials for a 1968 massacre of student protesters, ending a second attempt by prosecutors to bring the former leaders to trial. Judge Ranulfo Castillo held that the statute of limitations for genocide had run with respect [...]