The U.S. Congress will most likely lift a five-decades-old embargo on Cuba before the end of 2010, a senior Democratic lawmaker said Tuesday.
Advertising company SkyTag wins a temporary injunction protecting 18 buildings, including one in Hollywood that has been the subject of heated debate, while their case moves through the courts.
A California judge on Monday threw out a $45 million false advertising lawsuit against online advertising company ValueClick Inc, in a decision that defense attorneys said could blunt the most aggressive state law regulating commercial email.
A Los Angeles lawyer on Monday filed a court petition asking that a guardian be appointed to protect the earnings and assets of octuplets recently born to a woman in California.
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether the reasoning that led it to strike down the death penalty for juvenile offenders four years ago should also apply to sentences of life without the possibility of parole.
Panama could elect a multimillionaire supermarket magnate as president on Sunday, as conservative Ricardo Martinelli´s knack for business draws poor voters worried about an economic crisis and high inflation.
Iran and China are making "disturbing" gains in Latin America and Washington can no longer afford to shun leaders from nations like Venezuela and Bolivia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday.
The cybersecurity chief named to battle Internet viruses and larger challenges facing the information technology networks used by U.S. companies and national defense should be based in the White House, experts told a congressional panel on Friday.
The Swiss Federal Office of Justice on Friday announced that it has filed a brief in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida arguing that a lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seeking information on 52,000 UBS account holders suspected of tax evasion violates its national sovereignty as well as Swiss banking law.
The White House will unveil reforms to the nation´s international tax code on Monday intended to close loopholes for overseas tax havens and end incentives for creating jobs overseas.
Not quite a year ago, Charles Dean Hood was on the verge of being put to death in Texas when an execution order expired. A few months later, a last-minute appeal was granted within hours of another scheduled execution.
When he established Law Day on May 1, 1958 as "a day of national dedication to the principles of government under law," President Dwight Eisenhower sought to highlight for all Americans that our very freedom as a nation depends upon our continuing commitment to the rule of law.
Exploiting worries over the swine flu outbreak, spammers flooded the Internet on Monday with millions of e-mails peddling counterfeit drugs as remedies and seeking to steal credit card data, a security firm said.
New York City’s law allowing elected officials including Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for three consecutive terms rather than two was upheld by a federal appeals court.
President Barack Obama will sign wide-ranging, pro-consumer credit card reforms into law by late May, senior U.S. House Democrat Carolyn Maloney predicted on Wednesday.
The Justice Department has begun an inquiry into the antitrust implications of Google’s settlement with authors and publishers over its Google Book Search service, two people briefed on the matter said Tuesday.
Chrysler LLC, the third-largest U.S. automaker, faces a deadline of tomorrow to form an alliance with Fiat SpA and qualify for further U.S. aid, and no one can say whether it will avoid a bankruptcy filing.
How does the business community think President Barack Obama is doing? As he hits the 100-day mark, there´s little doubt the new President is getting high marks overall for his 24/7 moves to revive the economy.
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday federal regulators have the authority to clamp down on the broadcast TV networks that air isolated cases of profanity, known as "fleeting expletives."
Despite layoffs, deferrals, depressing U.S. job stats and anecdotal complaints about a lousy legal employment economy, students consider law school a good option for waiting out the financial crisis.
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