A federal magistrate judge yesterday released about 600 pages of secret documents relating to police preparations for the 2004 Republican National Convention, held in New York.
State lawmakers and Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday that they had agreed to make labor- and sex-trafficking felonies, breaking a deadlock on an issue many thought should have been resolved long ago.
Prosecutors are investigating employees of Wall Street banks, including Bear Stearns Cos. and Morgan Stanley, over alleged kickbacks involving short sellers, and may soon bring criminal charges, a published report said.
A controversial law effectively banning parents from smacking their children has been passed by New Zealand´s parliament.
The White House and the US Senate have reached a deal on an immigration bill that could give legal status to many of the 12m illegal immigrants in the US.
Representative William Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat, asked a federal appeals court to declare an FBI raid on his office unconstitutional and order the government to return material it has seized.
European businesses caught employing illegal immigrants face jail sentences under new proposals from the European Commission to control immigration.
The Department of Homeland Security is breaking privacy laws by failing to tell the public all the ways it uses personal information to target passengers boarding flights entering or leaving the United States, according to a draft government report.
A nutrition advocacy group sued Burger King Holdings Inc. on Wednesday over the hamburger chain´s use of frying oil that contains artery-clogging trans fats.
State officials said Tuesday that they had addressed the plethora of serious concerns raised by a federal district judge last year over how California executed condemned inmates by lethal injections.
Prince Harry, the third in line to the British throne, will not be sent to serve in Iraq after military commanders decided it was too dangerous.
With the new Congress poised to take its first vote on immigration, senators from both parties stepped up the pace of negotiations on Tuesday in hopes of cutting a deal on a comprehensive bill that would increase enforcement at the border and offer legal status to millions of undocumented workers.
Tyco International, whose two top executives were imprisoned for fraud, has agreed to pay almost $3 billion to settle class-action lawsuits brought by investors, the company announced yesterday.
After years of industry speculation, Amazon.com is getting into the digital music business.
Brazilian rancher was convicted Tuesday of ordering the killing of an American nun and rain forest defender in a case seen as an important test of justice in the largely lawless Amazon region. A judge sentenced him to 30 years in prison.
News and information group Reuters has agreed to be bought out by Canadian financial data provider Thomson in a deal worth about £8.7bn ($17bn).
Hyundai Motor Co. Chairman Chung Mong-koo is considering building an auto factory in Brazil, a company spokesman said Monday, amid increasing sales in the South American country.
US private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management is to buy a majority stake in car firm DaimlerChrysler´s ailing US Chrysler arm.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe scored a victory in his drive to rewrite Japan´s pacifist constitution and ease its limits on military actions overseas on Monday when parliament enacted a law outlining steps for a referendum on revising the post-World War Two charter.
Bristol-Myers Squibb said yesterday that it would plead guilty to criminal charges that it made false statements to the government, a move meant to end a federal antitrust investigation of the drug maker’s botched efforts last year to preserve a lucrative monopoly for the anti-clotting medicine Plavix.
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