US District Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Central District of California on Monday sentenced former Chinese television executive Tai Wang Mak to 10 years in prison for conspiring with his brother, Chi Mak, to smuggle...

US prisons currently house the world's largest inmate population, according to a Wednesday New York Times report citing data provided by the International Center for Prison Studies . The US currently holds 2.3 million inmates, far more...

Former US Justice Department official Robert Coughlin II pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of criminal conflict of interest in connection to his relationship with disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff . Coughlin, charged ...

Flavio Sosa, a leader of the 2006 popular uprising in the Mexican state of Oaxaca , was released from jail this weekend after prosecutors failed to convict him of any charges related to the uprising. Sosa, a prominent...

Federal authorities have arrested and charged 84-year-old American citizen Ben-Ami Kadish on four counts of conspiracy to disclose US defense and nuclear weaponry documents to Israel and to act as an Israeli agent, the US Department...

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Tuesday partially overturned the convictions of former Bosnian Muslim General Enver Hadzihasanovic and former Brigadier Amir...

Thomas C., and Pamela McIntosh, v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, et al., US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, April 21, 2008 [dismissing claims of fraud against State Farm Insurance by a Mississippi couple who claimed...

Benzman, et al. v. Whitman, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, April 22, 2008 [ruling that former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman cannot be sued for making allegedly misleading reassurances about the air quality in New...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Giles v. California , 07-6053, where the Court considered whether a criminal defendant can block the testimony of...

US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Tuesday unveiled new proposed regulations to implement the federal No Child Left Behind Act . At a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club, Spelling said :Today, more...