Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit Tuesday against internet phone provider Vonage , alleging that the service does not adequately warn customers about problems they have in trying to call 911. Vonage does not route 911 calls...

The US government filed a motion Tuesday asking the judge in the Zacarias Moussaoui case to set a trial date in October. District Judge Leonie Brinkema had stayed legal proceedings pending the Supreme...

The US Supreme Court ruled in three cases Tuesday, all on appeal from the Ninth Circuit. In Muehler v. Mena the Court ruled unanimously that police did not violate the Fourth Amendment rights...

Democratic Republic of Congo leaders on Tuesday announced that several senior militia leaders had been arrested, with other reports indicating that top leader Thomas Lubanga was among them. The leaders were arrested on Saturday, although...

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, the Wall Street Journal is reporting American International Group Inc. (AIG) has fired CFO Howard I. Smith and a vice president Christian M. Milton after the executives indicated they...

In Tuesday's international brief, a report submitted to the UN Human Rights Commission by UN Special Rapporteur Doudou Diene has called on Germany and the EU to increase efforts to ban political groups based on racist, xenophobic,...

Jordan's State Security Court on Tuesday convicted three Iraqis for smuggling weapons into the country as part of a plan to attack US and Israeli targets. The three were charged with importing weapons including grenades, rockets and...

A jury has delivered a $90 million verdict against Clear Channel Communications for interfering with another promoter's attempts to host motorcycle racing events in Chicago. The verdict, handed down Monday, rejected an antitrust claim against Clear Channel,...

FBI agents at Guantanamo Bay concluded the military's aggressive interrogation policy yielded intelligence that was "suspect at best," according to a newly released FBI document . The report on Gitmo interrogations comes from an...

Several Indonesian human rights groups have criticized the nomination of Paul Wolfowitz for the World Bank presidency, citing his failure to oppose the Suharto dictatorship during his ambassadorship in Indonesia in the 1980s. The Indonesian...