The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to review an Illinois Supreme Court decision setting aside a $10.1 billion verdict against Philip Morris USA for its marketing of "light" and "low-tar" cigarettes....
US Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine has launched an internal investigation into the DOJ's use of intelligence gathered under the NSA's domestic surveillance program , according to a letter from Fine to Congressional leaders...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. , 05-1074, a case that addresses whether and when a plaintiff...
An Italian judge adjourned the tax fraud trial of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British lawyer David Mills Monday after Berlusconi collapsed during a speech in...
The Iraqi Parliament Monday indefinitely barred journalists from sessions of parliament as part of efforts by Iraq's National Security Council to stop contradictory statements made by Iraqi politicians, according to Reuters. Speaker Mahmoud...
Chilean Judge Victor Montiglio indicted former dictator Augusto Pinochet Monday and placed him under house arrest in connection with the firing-squad deaths of two of former President Salvador Allende's bodyguards during the so-called Caravan...
Israel is willing to release many Palestinian prisoners , even long-term detainees, if Palestinian militants agree to free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit , Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday. Shalit was captured...
China's State Council is considering a draft resolution that would establish a national agency to regulate organ transplants in the wake of international criticism over Chinese organ transplant practices. Chinese health officials have admitted that the majority...
Thailand's military leaders decided Monday to lift martial law in 40 of the country's 76 provinces, pending the approval of Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont . Thailand has been under a state of martial law since...
Saddam Hussein's genocide trial resumed Monday with testimony from witnesses describing how Hussein's soldiers executed civilians during the "Anfal" campaigns against ethnic Kurds in northern Iraq from 1987 to 1988. All seven defendants appeared...