New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer faces pressure to resign on Tuesday as well as questions about whether he will be prosecuted for any crime after a report linked him to a high-class prostitution ring.
Societe Generale, seeking to restore its status as a top-tier bank after a massive trading scandal, said Tuesday it raised €5.5 billion ($8.44 billion) in new capital through a share offering.
The former founder of one of the West Coast´s biggest immigration law firms was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for filing fraudulent visa applications
The U.S. government has opened a criminal inquiry into Countrywide Financial in connection with suspected securities fraud as part of the continuing repercussions from the mortgage crisis
State legislators passed a law Saturday that would require adults who French kiss a child younger than 13 to register as a sex offender.
Venezuela says it will immediately normalise diplomatic relations with Colombia, a week after ties were cut.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Friday concluded its review of US compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Bolivia´s top electoral authority on Friday indefinitely postponed a May 4 referendum on a new constitution intended to give more political power to the nation´s long-oppressed indigenous groups.
In the 20 years since the federal death penalty statute was revived, no federal juries have been more reluctant to sentence federal defendants to death than those in New York.
Judge lets company in fraud case stay in business selling male enhancement, other supplements
reporter Toni Locy in contempt of court and ordered her to personally pay a daily fine for continuing to violate an August 2007 order to testify about government sources
Texas oilman David Chalmers was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday after admitting to paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to Iraq in connection with the U.N. oil-for-food program.
A federal judge is allowing six Qualcomm lawyers sanctioned for discovery violations in patent litigation to testify about privileged client communications
A Niamey court Thursday sentenced the editor-in-chief of a private bi-monthly newspaper to a month in prison for criticising judicial rulings, legal sources told AFP.
German conglomerate Siemens, under multiple investigations for suspected use of bribes to win foreign contracts, plans to restructure its international operations, its chief executive told a newspaper
The US defence department has banned the giant internet search engine Google from filming inside and making detailed studies of US military bases
Newly proposed legislation may provide some relief for credit card holders
The US Department of Defense said that two charges have been referred against Guantanamo Bay detainee Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi
The number of discrimination charges against private employers filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission increased by nine percent in 2007
Former Peruvian military official will pay the price for torture, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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