Robert Weiner, a former public affairs aide in the Clinton White House and now head of a Washington, DC media relations firm , said in an op-ed in Thursday's Boston Globe that the upcoming trial of Saddam Hussein "could easily backfire and go haywire from the US government's point of view". Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim [...]

Just days after filing a federal antitrust lawsuit against rival Intel, Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) has filed two similar suits against Intel in Japan. The company announced Thursday that its Japanese arm, AMD Japan, had made two claims in Tokyo High Court and Tokyo District Court against Intel KK , Intel's Japanese subsidiary. Japan's Fair [...]

Wire services are reporting that former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers , convicted of fraud in March for his part in an $11 billion accounting scandal, will forfeit as much as $45 million worth of personal assets in a settlement of related civil charges. The deal, announced by the New York Attorney General's office Thursday, will [...]

TIME magazine said in a statement Thursday that it will turn over notes by reporter Matthew Cooper to a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's name despite Cooper's own willingness to go to jail rather than provide them. After the US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear an appeal by Cooper and [...]

Ali Mohammed Osman Yassin, Sudan's justice minister, has rejected calls for the extradition of 10 suspects to face charges for war crimes in Darfur before the the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Yassin said the men are already on trial in a Sudanese court , where they have pleaded not guilty . Rights groups [...]

The US Justice Department has officially ended its probe into Royal Dutch/Shell Group , announcing on Wednesday that it will not prosecute the company for overstating gas and oil reserves . Shell had previously settled civil investigations by both the US and UK governments, and accepted the resignation of its chief financial officer . Shell [...]

Despite being voted down in the Senate , the Spanish parliament on Thursday passed a law legalizing same-sex marriage and allowing same-sex couples to adopt and inherit each other's property. Read the text of the legislation . Spain now joins the Netherlands and Belgium as the only countries to recognize gay marriages. The Canadian House [...]

Executive Order blocking property of weapons of mass destruction proliferators and their supporters, President George W. Bush, June 29, 2005 . Read the full text of the Order. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A federal jury Wednesday convicted five East St. Louis (Illinois) Democratic Party officials on charges of felony conspiracy to commit vote fraud, and election fraud in the November 2004 election. Charles Powell Jr., the local Democratic Party chairman, and four party employees were found guilty of misappropriating $76,150 to buy votes for cash, cigarettes and [...]

The US Justice Department Wednesday called a city invocation of the Patriot Act as a defense in a suit by a homeless man an "overreaching application of the law." Summit, New Jersey cited the act in response to a lawsuit by Richard Kreimer , alleging that the it violated his and other homeless persons' constitutional [...]