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A federal judge in Sacramento on Wednesday upheld a California law regulating greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, another in a string of legal defeats for the auto industry this year. The ruling, by Judge Anthony W. Ishii of United States District Court, affirms a 2002 California law that would effectively force automakers to […]

Moves to reduce drastically the fees that barristers earn in long, complex cases will put at risk 14 terrorism trials due to start next year, the new head of the Bar will say today. Tim Dutton, QC, said that the reforms — intended to replace the present rates, which have led to some barristers earning

Conrad Black, the convicted felon who was once one of the world’s most powerful press barons, on Monday received 6 1/2 years in a U.S. federal prison for stealing millions from Hollinger International Inc. Black, 63, stood in a packed courtroom as Judge Amy St. Eve handed down the sentence. “Mr. Black, you have violated

He was, to the popular eye, Eliot Ness reincarnated, an unsparing prosecutor for a crime-shadowed age. And when the United States attorney in Manhattan resigned in January 1989, he earned a tabloid salute: “Good News for Bad Guys,” The Daily News proclaimed. “Crimebuster Giuliani Steps Down.” Rudolph W. Giuliani waved his prosecutor’s scythe in the

A businessman helping to fund the hunt for Madeleine McCann has accused Gordon Brown and David Miliband of ignoring her parents’ plight. Stephen Winyard, who owns a Scottish health spa, said the “shutters had gone up” after Portuguese police named Gerry and Kate McCann as suspects. He said the only offer in response to a

The CIA disclosed Thursday that it destroyed two videotapes that showed agents using highly controversial interrogation techniques such as waterboarding. The revelation is certain to heat up the debate over the treatment of terrorism suspects as well as the CIA’s decisionmaking in the case. The CIA, though asked for evidence taken from interrogations, had never

In one of the largest corporate pay give-backs ever, William W. McGuire, the former chief executive of UnitedHealth Group, has agreed to forfeit at least $418 million to settle claims related to back-dated stock options. The payback is on top of roughly $198 million that Mr. McGuire, an entrepreneur who built UnitedHealth, had previously agreed

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on the Bush administration’s detention of terror suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement represented the Bush administration, which contends that foreign terror suspects captured and held outside the United States have no rights under the U.S. Constitution to appear

President Omar al-Bashir is a military dictator who rules Sudan with an iron fist. Yet even he cannot resist the temptation of making a magnanimous gesture for propaganda value. His decision to pardon and free Gillian Gibbons, the British teacher who was locked up for allowing schoolchildren to name a teddy bear ”Mohammed”, was designed