At the opening of the new Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem Tuesday, Israeli President Moshe Katsav warned of increasing anti-Semitism and called on European leaders to confront the problem. The ceremony was attended by leaders...
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The PA Superior Court has dismissed clergy abuse lawsuits filed by 17 adults in the state because the statute of limitations had run on the claims. The alleged abuse dated between 1957 to 1983, but the plaintiffs...
The Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday issued new mercury regulations for power plants that are designed to reduce emissions to 70 percent of 1999 levels once fully implemented. The Clean Air Mercury Rule uses a...
The number of federal appeals cases filed in 2004 was a new all-time high, according to a report released Tuesday by the Administrative Office of the US Courts . There were 62,762 appeals filed last...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) issued its final indictment on Tuesday, after over a decade of bringing war criminals to justice. A spokeswoman for the court said that the indictments against former...
AP is reporting that former WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers has been convicted on all counts at his fraud trial.12:51 PM - Reuters now has a story here. The Manhattan jury found Ebbers guilty of fraud, conspiracy, and filing false...
The court-martial of Army 1st Lt. Jack Saville began Tuesday at Fort Hood over charges that he ordered an Iraqi man to be thrown into the Tigris River, where he drowned, after the man was detained during a December...
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a $4 million verdict against a former Chilean Army officer for the killing of a political prisoner during the 1973 coup in Chile . The 2003 jury...
Former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume has announced that he will run for US Senate in 2006, entering the race for the MD seat that Sen. Paul Sarbanes said Friday he would vacate after his current term. Mfume,...
Former chess champion Bobby Fischer must be deported to the US under Japanese law, Japanese Immigration Bureau chief Masaharu Miura said Tuesday. Fischer has been fighting deportation to his home country, but Miura said that...
