Government-sponsored mortgage dealer Fannie Mae announced Thursday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has discontinued its two-year investigation into alleged accounting violations, though criminal prosecutions could still be brought against individual...
Members of the Philippines House of Representatives on Thursday voted 173-32 to uphold a decision last week by the House Committee on Justice , defeating impeachment proceedings against Philippines President Gloria Macapagal...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Wednesday urged the adoption of an increasingly-problematic draft of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities , a proposed treaty to protect the...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved the over-the-counter sale of the "morning after" or Plan B emergency contraceptive pill , to women 18 and over. A controversial provision of the...
Chen Guangcheng , a blind Chinese human rights legal activist, was sentenced Thursday to four years and three months in prison for damaging property and "organizing a mob to disturb traffic." Chen supporters have said, however, that...
A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to conduct an investigation into how CBS News and other media outlets learned of a criminal investigation into the activities of two pro-Israel lobbyists before they were formally charged. In an...
A lawsuit filed by the United Mine Workers of America , seeking to compel the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to perform periodic checks of "self-contained self-rescuers" oxygen units and lead mandatory emergency training...
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that former presidential candidate Ralph Nader and his running mate Peter Miguel Camejo must pay more than $80,000 in expenses for a...
Murphy v. IRS, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, August 23, 2006 . Read the...
Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"? Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure, Amnesty International, August 23, 2006 [report accusing Israel of deliberately inflicting unnecessary damage on Lebanese civilian infrastructure during the Middle East conflict, acts which Amnesty says rises to the level...