The US Senate confirmed Judges David McKeague and Richard Griffin to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Thursday by 96-0 and 95-0 votes, respectively. The confirmations came the...

Senior Vice President at Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary General Re Richard Napier pleaded guilty Friday to helping international insurance giant AIG misstate its finances. Both Napier and former General Re executive John Houldsworth, who...

The Washington-based monitoring group Human Rights First has released a new report detailing a significant rise in violent hate crimes against Jews, Muslims, and immigrants in Europe. In France, anti-Semitic hate crimes rose...

The leading Sunni Muslim political grouping in Iraq rejected the Shiite-led Iraqi government's offer of an additional 13 seats on the country's constitutional committee Friday, sticking to its demand for 25 seats and threatening to boycott negotiations...

Financial giant Citigroup said Friday that it will pay $2 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit over its role in helping to engineer a massive accounting fraud at Enron . The settlement will...

In an apparent dig at the US, a veteran Spanish anti-terror judge emphasized the necessity of international cooperation, law and reason in the pursuit of terrorism Thursday in a special UN-sponsored meeting in New York . Baltasar Garzon...

Nevada death row inmate Robert McConnell invoked an 11th-hour appeal Thursday night to avoid a scheduled execution at Nevada State Prison , saying he didn't want to die. The former car salesman was sentenced to death...

A group of US navy veterans who survived a surprise attack by Israeli forces against their vessel during the Six Day War in 1967 are seeking a Pentagon investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes....

In a report on the FBI's handling of intelligence related to the September 11 attacks released Thursday, US Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine concluded that the FBI missed several opportunities to detect and prevent...

Head of Bolivia's Supreme Court Eduardo Rodriguez was sworn in as president of the country late Thursday after the Bolivian Congress accepted the second resignation of President Carlos Mesa . Bolivia's third president in less than...