Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are seeking a significantly longer prison sentence for former State Senator Efrain González Jr., claiming that he lied when he told a judge he wanted to withdraw his guilty plea because he was innocent of the charges.
About 60 lawyers are trying to persuade a judge in California that they should play a leading role in a giant court case against Toyota.
President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday called for the speeding up of six-nation negotiations on a U.N. sanctions resolution against Iran over its nuclear program.
The Los Angeles city council has voted to boycott Arizona businesses in one of the strongest moves yet against the state´s new immigration law.
People smugglers will find it harder to ply their trade after parliament approved tough new laws.
The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a ruling that declared the preventive detention of an inmate in Germany unlawful. The decision has sparked a debate about how to protect the public from violent offenders.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill targeting a school district´s ethnic studies program, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure.
As the Senate powers through dozens of proposed changes to the Democrats’ financial regulatory legislation, lawmakers have proposed at least three amendments designed to protect consumers and businesses from high credit card interest rates and fees.
The Baltic republic of Estonia, a country of 1.3 million people, is on course to adopt the euro in January 2011, the European Commission says.
The New York attorney general has started an investigation of eight banks to determine whether they provided misleading information to rating agencies in order to inflate the grades of certain mortgage securities, according to two people with knowledge of the investigation.
A US judge has ruled in favour of 13 music companies in a copyright case against popular online file-sharing service LimeWire.
Exchange offices in the UK have stopped selling 500 euro banknotes because of their use by money launderers.
It’s about 2,500 miles from this green, rural town in the rolling hills near Vermont to the Mexican border at Nogales, but that hasn’t stopped Jackson from making a bid to be New York’s small version of Arizona in the immigration wars.
A Moscow court has sentenced a Russian national to four years in prison for handing over state secrets to the US.
Minutes before British Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg held a banter-filled, joint news conference at Downing Street on Wednesday, the full text of the coalition agreement between their two parties, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, was published online.
HTC Corp on Wednesday fired back in its legal battle with Apple Inc, asking the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban U.S. sales of iPhones, iPads and iPods.
The war against movie piracy is getting downright explosive. The producers of the Oscar-winning "The Hurt Locker" are preparing a massive lawsuit against thousands of individuals who pirated the film online. The case could be filed as soon as Wednesday.
Vodafone´s latest marketing deal has pushed the Commerce Commission to backtrack on an earlier decision and it is now recommending the Government regulate mobile phone ´termination rates´.
Family relationship centers created by the Howard government to keep families out of courtrooms have had their funding slashed by $43.9 million, a move experts say could drive family disputes back into the courts.
Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a new edition of its Office programs to businesses Wednesday, and for the first time it´s adding versions of Word and other programs that work in a Web browser and will be free for consumers.
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