Italy on Wednesday became the first major European Union nation to ratify the proposed European constitution when the Italian Senate overwhelmingly approved it by a vote of 217-16. Italy's lower house of...

The US Senate voted Wednesday to cut the current US share of funding UN peacekeeping forces, rejecting a Democratic proposal to maintain current funding for the next two years 40-57 . The amendment to a Department of...

In a letter released Wednesday, the Judicial Conference of the United States formally requested congressional and presidential assistance in providing additional security measures. As a result of violence toward federal judges and their families in recent months and the...

Stephen Johnson , President Bush's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency , faced some tough questioning Wednesday at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee . Johnson, a 24-year veteran of...

A French appeals court Wednesday upheld a lower court decision absolving former Yahoo! CEO Tim Koogle of criminal responsibility for auctions of Nazi paraphernalia held through Yahoo's website. Yahoo was found liable in 2000 for allowing Nazi...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia agreed Wednesday to allow Serbian General Sreten Lukic 30 days to enter his plea on war crimes charges so that he can undergo a medical exam following heart...

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, the SEC has approved the extenstion of the "trade-through" rule to electronic exchanges which will subject the vast majority of stock transactions to guidelines designed to give investors the best...

US District Judge James Moody sentenced white supremacist Matthew Hale to 40 years in prison for soliciting an undercover FBI informant to murder US District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow . In an earlier, trademark infringement suit, Lefkow had...

Hong Kong's Acting Chief Executive Donald Tsang said Wednesday that it is "accurate and necessary" to ask China's National People's Congress to interpret Hong Kong's Basic Law in order to settle...

A German court Wednesday found Tunisian national Ihsan Garnaoui not guilty of charges of founding a terrorist organization and planning bomb attacks against American and Jewish targets in Germany. Garnaoui went on trial last May on allegations...