An Oracle Corp. investor sued the company and members of its board of directors on Thursday for allegedly trying to stonewall a whistleblower lawsuit that ultimately resulted in a $200 million settlement.
Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee announced Thursday that he will be stepping down temporarily as chief, a move instigated by growing criticism of his handling of the Trayvon Martin shooting case in Florida. My role as the leader of this agency has become a distraction from the investigation, Lee said (watch full video here). It is apparent that my involvement in this matter is overshadowing the process.
Sanford, Fla., passed a vote of no confidence in its police chief Wednesday as protests of the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin spread north to New York City, where the slain youth’s parents joined a march demanding the killer’s arrest.
Unarmed black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin's last telephonic conversation with his girlfriend before being shot dead by a neighborhood watch captain reveals that the shooter, George Zimmerman, had followed the boy and killed him in cold blood, the teenager's family lawyer said Tuesday.
Sirius XM radio talk host Joe Madison has posted an audio file of a 911 call in which George Zimmerman is heard muttering a racial slur just moments before fatally shooting Trayvon Martin.
Deutsche Börse AG, the operator of the Frankfurt stock exchange, announced Tuesday that it will appeal the decision by European antitrust regulators to block its planned merger with NYSE Euronext, the New York Times said.
A U.S. law requiring large graphic health warnings on cigarette packaging and advertising does not violate the free speech rights of tobacco companies, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.
A U.S. law requiring large graphic health warnings on cigarette packaging and advertising does not violate the free speech rights of tobacco companies, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.
The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI have begun an investigation into the case of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old unarmed black boy who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain in an Orlando suburb.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is attacking President Obama on porn, saying on his website the Justice Department seems to favor pornographers over children.
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum promises to vigorously enforce laws to ban hardcore pornography in internet if he becomes president.
The inspector general for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said banks involved in the nationwide settlement on foreclosure practices significantly hindered its investigation.
The U.S. Department of Justice Monday objected Texas' strict new voter ID law.
The $25 billion settlement between five large U.S. banks accused of abusive mortgage practices on the one side and federal and state government officials on the other side that was announced Feb. 9 will be filed in federal court on Monday, people familiar with the matter said.
During a panel discussion on Al Jazeera English, the former spokesperson referred to a WikiLeaks cable that proves Yemen was cooperating with a U.S. effort to locate and kill al-Awlaki before the Justice Department authorized the al Qaeda operatives assassination.
A federal appeals court has blocked parts of an Alabama immigration law that restrict business transactions with undocumented immigrants, further diluting a law that was considered the toughest in the country.
A Minnesota school district that came to crystallize a national debate about anti-gay bullying has agreed to institute broad new protections for students.
Attorney General Eric Holder supplied the legal justification Monday for the decision to kill American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , rebutting criticism that the view of executive power held by President Barack Obama's administration is overly broad.
Anonymous has taken to Twitter to downplay the incident and to warn users after Symantec released a report claiming that anti-Anonymous hackers had duped the hactivist collective into adding Zeus Trojan malware to a guide for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Although some Anonymous-affiliated Twitter handles have warned users of the modified link, most have gone after Symantec for misrepresenting the threat.
Annie George, the owner of a lavish 34-room mansion in upstate Rexford, N.Y., stands accused of keeping an Indian woman, V.M., in forced labor as a domestic worker in her home. V.M.'s circumstances, and the unanswered questions surrounding her time in the U.S., combine human trafficking and modern-day slavery laws with a tangled web of immigration laws, compounding the suffering that result from the modern-day struggles that plague domestic workers, regardless of citizenship, as they ...
BP and three other energy companies late Friday reached a settlement with thousands of individuals and businesses affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill that killed 11 workers and fouled the Gulf of Mexico with millions of gallons of oil.
Two former U.S. senators, who led inquiries into the 9/11 attacks, have said that the government of Saudi Arabia, despite being an ally of U.S in the fighting terrorism, may have played a key role in the bombing of the twin towers a decade ago.
