AP is reporting that a military jury has convicted Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar of murder and attempted murder in a grenade attack on fellow soldiers in Kuwait.8:05 PM ET ~ Akbar, 33, was charged with killing two fellow soldiers...

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has reached a settlement agreement with Hynix Semiconductor as part of the DOJ's ongoing investigation into price-fixing in the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) industry. Under the...

Former Merrill Lynch executive Daniel Bayly has been sentenced to 30 months by in prison US District Judge Ewing Werlein for his role in an Enron Nigerian barge scam. Bayly will also face six months of supervision...

In a case somewhat similar to that of brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo, Justice Mark Hedley of the High Court in London Thursday upheld a court order allowing a critically ill baby to die if she stops breathing. Charlotte...

In Thursday's environmental law news, US District Judge Shira Scheindlin has ruled that some 80 lawsuits can proceed against oil companies claiming that a gasoline additive, methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) , contaminated groundwater. The suits allege...

Saajid Badat , the British man who has admitted to conspiring with "shoebomber" Richard Reid to blow up an aircraft, will be sentenced on Friday after entering a guilty plea to a conspiracy charge in February....

Leading Thursday's international brief, the first troops of the UN peacekeeping force assigned to Sudan arrived in Khartoum Thursday to prepare the way for the more than 10,000 troops to follow. The 44 peacekeepers that arrived in...

The office of the Pentagon's general counsel has sent leaders of the US Senate and House of Representatives Armed Services Committees a draft copy of a proposal saying that consensual sodomy between members of the US military...

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved two of President Bush's judicial nominees , sending the nominations to the full Senate in what could trigger a partisan face-off over the filibuster. With two 10-8 votes...

Zacarias Moussaoui , the only person charged by the US in connection with the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, could receive the death penalty after he requested nothing in return for agreeing to plead guilty, federal officials...