Hedge funds would have to provide government reports on their operations, and large financial institutions would be subject to more oversight under sweeping regulations to be proposed today by Treasury…
In the wake of unprecedented emergency federal spending to deal with the nation’s dismal economy, the Obama administration is now asking financial experts to help figure out how to increase…
A failed interdiction approach unsuccessfully pursued by the United States for decades, as well as an “insatiable” demand in this country for illegal drugs. Both are partly to blame for…
Working undercover to investigate whether the federal watchdog charged with enforcing U.S. labor laws is doing its job, agents of the Governmental Accountability Office found that nine of 10 complaints…
A national security law expert who is a well-known critic of the Bush administration’s detention policies concerning suspected terrorists has been tapped by President Barack Obama to provide legal advice…
The Central Intelligence Agency apparently didn’t fuss when Andrew Warren racked up hefty expense tabs at strip clubs and brothels, while wooing potential espionage recruits.
Gary Locke, a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine who is nominated to become commerce secretary, made more than $1 million in income in the past year, more than half of…
Four individuals who say they were tortured while held prisoner at the Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq can sue a U.S. defense contractor whose employees allegedly participated in the…
Supporters are charging that a Los Angeles lawyer’s controversial litigation work on immigration issues cost him a job as chief of the Justice Department’s civil rights division.
In the wake of widespread anger over news of big bonuses paid to executives at American International Group in the midst of a taxpayer-funded bailout that could hit $185 billion,…
A secret report by the International Committee of the Red Cross concludes some al-Qaida detainees were tortured by the CIA and subjected to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.”
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