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The stiff penalty was the potentially final step in the stunning downfall of the former official, Genaro Garcȡa Luna, who has gone from the heights of power to imprisonment. Genaro [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow Tommy Beaudreau, who served as the Interior Department's No. 2 official before stepping down last year, violated federal ethics rules by failing to monitor his investments in [...]

The officials were punished nearly a year after two dams above the seaside city of Derna failed in a storm, killing thousands and destroying much of the area. Twelve Libyan [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf Some of former president Donald Trump's co-defendants in a Georgia election interference case are receiving legal funding from a charity started to help people charged in efforts [...]

INTRODUCTION The anti-corruption drive of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration has received its first stress test arising from the crisis in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and [...]

Byline: COLIN FREEZE; Staff TORONTO -- A Boston man with ties to Chinese diplomats has been arrested for an alleged conspiracy to inform Beijing about its potential allies and enemies [...]

For months, guards at a Syrian prison brutally tortured an American aid worker and threatened to kill her loved ones. She eventually caved to their demands, confessing to crimes she [...]

Byline: MARIE-DANIELLE SMITH; THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- Major-General Dany Fortin, a senior military officer who was acquitted of a sexual-assault charge late last year, has filed a $6-million lawsuit [...]

Byline: MARIE-DANIELLE SMITH; THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- Major-General Dany Fortin, a senior military officer who was acquitted of a sexualassault charge late last year, has filed a $6million lawsuit [...]

The outcome of a case in federal court could help decide whether the First Amendment is a barrier to virtually any government efforts to stifle disinformation. In July 2021, as [...]

Genaro García Luna is accused of helping traffickers move drugs to the United States. But his defense says he is being targeted by the men he helped to send to [...]

Mental trauma that Brittany Higgins faced from the proceedings presented a ''significant and unacceptable risk'' to her life, the prosecutor said. Prosecutors have dropped a rape charge against a former [...]

Byline: Mary Ilyushina AMSTERDAM - A Dutch court on Thursday convicted two Russians and a Ukrainian of murder in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine in [...]

Byline: Tricia L. Nadolny, USA TODAY Immediately after a Peace Corps employee in Tanzania went on a reckless drunken driving spree in 2019 that left one woman dead and another [...]

Joseph Percoco and Alain Kaloyeros, former aides to Andrew Cuomo, could benefit if the court is more skeptical of what constitutes corruption. Joseph Percoco and his taste for ''ziti.'' Alain [...]

The cases against former Gov. Rick Snyder and other top officials were thrown into doubt by the ruling. FLINT, Mich. -- The Michigan Supreme Court said on Tuesday that former [...]

A journalist's remarks ran afoul of tight limits on speech connected to criminal prosecutions, putting pause on a high-profile case about to start. MELBOURNE, Australia -- The high-profile criminal trial [...]

A government minister sued and won over a brief Twitter post that called him a ''rape apologist.'' A journalist sees ''asymmetric warfare.'' MELBOURNE, Australia -- Australia's defense minister on Wednesday [...]

Inger Stojberg, who presided over tough anti-immigrant policies when her party was in charge, is being tried on charges of illegally separating couples who sought asylum. Her contentious tenure as [...]

The Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has dismissed an application by Bruce Lehrmann's criminal defence team for a permanent stay of proceedings on the basis that the [...]

Troy Buswell, the former West Australian Treasurer, has narrowly avoided jail for domestic violence charges. The 56-year-old was sentenced to a suspended term of imprisonment after pleading guilty partway through [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch and Shira Rubin Jordan's state security court sentenced two high-ranking ex-officials on Monday for a 'discord scheme' that aimed to sow incitement against King Abdullah II, though [...]

It was the first time in the three decades of the tribunal's history that top officials in the wartime Serbian government were found guilty of playing a role in atrocities [...]

Byline: Sammy Westfall A United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague handed down Wednesday its first-ever conviction of top former Serbian officials for crimes committed in Bosnia during the [...]

Byline: Sammy Westfall A United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague handed down Wednesday its first-ever conviction of top former Serbian officials for crimes committed in Bosnia during the [...]

A former South Australian political candidate has been refused bail, following charges of importing hundreds of fake Australian Federal Police badges, allegedly in hopes of 'overthrowing the government'. 49-year-old Teresa [...]

The law of defamation in the political arena has a long history. Passionate sparring between political opponents and the tendency to attack an opponent's policies and character has seen politicians [...]

On December 2, 2021, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) expanded its Belarus-related sanctions program by imposing restrictions on dealings in Belarusian sovereign debt and adding 32 [...]

Federal Defence Minister Peter Dutton has been awarded $35,000 in damages after winning his defamation lawsuit against refugee advocate Shane Bazzi. The former Minister for Home Affairs commenced legal proceedings [...]

Lynne Patton recruited and interviewed public housing tenants in New York City for a pro-Trump re-election video. The residents accused her of tricking them into participating. The video aired on [...]

The fallout from the Brittany Higgins rape case and other sexual assault allegations continues to reverberate in the government. MELBOURNE, Australia -- Australia's defense minister on Friday settled a defamation [...]

A Columbia tax preparer has been arrested and charged with 19 counts of willfully making or assisting in false or fraudulent returns. S.C. Department of Revenue agents arrested Shervonne Simmons, [...]