UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Jack Straw has announced reforms to the way Britain uses its secret intelligence. Straw announced the reforms Wednesday as part of a written statement to Parliament on...

President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, and Mexican President Vicente Fox Wednesday unveiled the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America , a pact which seeks to broaden cooperation on security and economic issues. Included...

The Florida Senate has begun debate on Terri Schiavo legislation. An amended version of SB 804 would prohibit suspension of sustenance or hydration of a person in persistent vegatative state when family members disagree on the course...

US District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. has extended a temporary restraining order barring the US from transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to the custody of foreign countries. Judge Kennedy extended the restraining order for...

The European Commission said Wednesday that it has rejected part of Microsoft's plan to comply with sanctions that were imposed last year after the Commission found that Microsoft violated European antitrust laws [decision text, PDF;...

AP is reporting that the parents of Terri Schiavo have opted to seek an expedited rehearing of their case by the full US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals en banc instead of pursuing...

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, a US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a district court's ruling which froze $37.6 million in termination pay and bonuses to two Gemstar TV Guide International ...

The parents of brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo prepared a last-ditch appeal to the United States Supreme Court Wednesday after the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the early hours of the morning refused to...

A federal appeals court has ruled that a controversial law requiring prisoners, parolees, and others on probation to submit DNA samples to an FBI DNA identification database in constitutional. Judge Jane R. Roth, for the US Third...

Japan's Justice Ministry said Wednesday that despite US requests to hand over fugitive former US chess champion Bobby Fischer, it would release him so that he could go to Iceland , which Monday granted...