An appellate court ruling overturning a rape conviction because the victim wasn´t married prompted anger Friday from women´s groups and a state legislator who plans to introduce a bill that would close the legal loophole.
The U.S. Treasury Department´s inspector general has threatened to punish JPMorgan Chase & Co. for failing to turn over documents to regulators investigating the bank´s ties to Bernard Madoff´s Ponzi scheme.
A $10 billion settlement to resolve claims of foreclosure abuses by 14 major lenders is expected to be announced as early as Monday, several people with knowledge of the discussions said on Sunday.
John Kiriakou, the first CIA agent to ever be convicted of leaking classified information to a reporter, will begin serving his 30-month sentence on January 25.
The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to investigate whether to grant Ericsson´s request for an import ban against Samsung Electronics Co., putting further pressure on the South Korean consumer-electronics giant in the continuing patent battle.
A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected part of Apple Inc´s lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc´s use of the term App Store, ruling Apple cannot bring a false advertising claim against the online retailer.
Concord, Massachusetts has become one of the first communities in the U.S. to ban the sale of single-serving plastic water bottles.
Offshore driller Transocean Ltd. will pay $1.4 billion to settle all federal civil and criminal claims relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Taking over his agency four years ago, Jon Leibowitz was at the head of a group of Obama appointees seeking a tougher line on antitrust violations.
The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to end its antitrust investigation of Google ahead of looming changes to the membership of the agency´s ruling board.
A sperm donor in Kansas is fighting a state effort to force him to pay child support for a child conceived through artificial insemination by a lesbian couple.
Top lawyers in the India district where a woman was gang-raped are saying that they will not represent the six men accused in the attack, which led to her death.
Indian lawmakers facing sexual assault charges against women could be suspended from office if the country´s top court rules in favor of a petition submitted following a gang-rape and murder that shocked the country.
Portugal´s president sent the 2013 budget to the country´s highest court for review, an unusual move that highlights deepening opposition to a two-year austerity drive.
US President Barack Obama has hailed a deal reached to avert a "fiscal cliff" of huge tax rises and spending cuts.
In a display of callousness unusual even by Vladimir Putin´s standards, Russia eliminated the possibility of a better life for thousands of orphans last week when Putin signed into law a ban on adoptions by Americans.
Under a law that took effect on New Year´s Day, selling beer at the ubiquitous kiosks that mushroomed along Russian sidewalks and roadsides after the collapse of the Soviet Union has been banned.
New laws being introduced in the Netherlands mean people who visit so-called coffee shops that sell cannabis will have to provide ID and an official document confirming they live in the country.
A federal appeals court has vacated $24,400 in sanctions against two law firms because a district judge ordered the sanctions without a finding of bad faith and gave the firms no chance to respond.
A bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children went to President Vladimir Putin for his signature on Wednesday after winning final approval from parliament in retaliation for a U.S. law that targets Russian human rights abusers.
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