In the public’s imagination, the classic hate crime is an assault born of animus against a particular ethnicity or sexual orientation, like the case of the Long Island man convicted in April of killing an Ecuadorean immigrant after hunting for Hispanics to beat up.
Former federal judge Robert Bork, whose failed 1987 nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court ignited a partisan battle, said Elena Kagan isn’t qualified for the high court because she has activist leanings and lacks a “mature” view of the law.
One day next month every student at Loyola Law School Los Angeles will awake to a higher grade point average.
Canwest Global Communications Corp.’s sale of its television unit to Shaw Communications Inc. won a judge’s approval, after the insolvent company reached an agreement with dissenting shareholders over terms of the deal.
Overwhelmingly, Americans think the nation needs a fundamental overhaul of its energy policies, and most expect alternative forms to replace oil as a major source within 25 years. Yet a majority are unwilling to pay higher gasoline prices to help develop new fuel sources.
Britain slapped a £2-billion (US$3.1-billion) tax on bank balance sheets on Tuesday as the new government said the industry must pay the price for its part in the financial crisis.
The top US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, has been ordered to the White House to explain his criticism of the President and his senior advisers in an interview in Rolling Stone magazine.
General Motors Co. says it´s restructuring its international operations to create a unit to handle South America.
Floods have engulfed two states in north-east Brazil, leaving about 1,000 people missing and forcing at least 100,000 to flee their homes.
"General Motors thinks it can finally sell a good small car."
France is preparing new spending cuts to help deliver the €100bn in savings needed to meet its pledge of bringing its public deficit in line with European targets by 2013.
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the Brazilian state-controlled oil company, plans to invest $224 billion through 2014 as it seeks to develop the Americas’ largest discovery in three decades and more than double output.
Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Monday ordered Gazprom to cut deliveries of natural gas deliveries to Belarus over unpaid debts, a step which could jeopardize supplies to Poland and other European countries.
Canada’s largest publicly traded drugmaker is no longer called Biovail Corp.
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a federal judge had erred in prohibiting the planting of Monsanto’s genetically modified alfalfa seed until a federal government agency completed a detailed environmental review.
China´s yuan soared on Monday to its highest against the dollar since the landmark 2005 revaluation, with the central bank stepping aside and tolerating broad gains on the first trading day since scrapping the currency´s two-year peg to the dollar.
Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, has died at the age of 87, his publisher has announced.
Citigroup Inc. plans to raise more than $3 billion for its private-equity and hedge funds, even as U.S. lawmakers consider banning banks from owning and investing in so-called alternative funds, people with direct knowledge of the plan said.
President Obama signaled on Friday that countries in Europe should not withdraw their extraordinary spending programs too quickly.
China’s economy is showing signs of softening after its strong stimulus-fuelled rebound last year, the World Bank says in its latest quarterly update.
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