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Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping to include — without court approval — certain types of physical searches on American soil and the collection of Americans’ business records, Democratic Congressional officials and other experts said. Administration officials acknowledged […]

It was 1983, and lists — of books, movies, anything — were the rage. U.S. News & World Report, a struggling news magazine, decided to capitalize on the trend and ask college presidents to rate rival institutions. Now, the magazine’s annual list ranking the nation’s four-year colleges and universities has become the center of a

The White House demanded in 2004 that the Justice Department approve a secret national security program without fully briefing the attorney general, according to the FBI director’s personal notes. The partially censored notes from Robert S. Mueller, dated March 12, 2004, describe a distraught and feeble Attorney General John Ashcroft in his hospital room just

A Miami jury has found Jose Padilla and two co-defendants guilty on all counts. Padilla and his co-defendants, Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi, were convicted of conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim people overseas, which carries a penalty of life in prison. All three were also convicted of two terrorism material support counts,

Like most hedge fund managers, James McBride and Kevin Larson expected to make a tidy sum. By the fall of 2003, they seemed well on their way. The series of Veras funds they had launched less than two years before had already attracted around $1 billion in investments. But then regulators, including then-New York state

Jose Padilla is known worldwide as the man who plotted with Al Qaeda to detonate a radiological “dirty bomb” in a major US city. He allegedly presented his plan to top Al Qaeda leaders Abu Zubaydah and 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. But according to US intelligence reports, both men doubted Mr. Padilla could pull

From his mansion off Mulholland Drive, Sumner Redstone holds sway over one of the world’s biggest media empires. Tucked away in one of Los Ange-les’s most exclusive addresses, Redstone and his neighbours, including Sylvester Stallone, Denzel Washington and the billionaire Haim Saban, enjoy their privacy far from prying eyes. But even gated communities have their

Lou Lupin has resigned as executive vice president and general counsel, the company said in a statement Monday. The announcement came just days after Qualcomm failed to win a reversal of an import ban on new cell phones that use some of its chips and also was told it can’t enforce some patents on video

The Queen has instructed her lawyers to take action over the way a BBC programme trailer misrepresented her by suggesting she had stormed out of a photo shoot. Farrer & Co, solicitors to the Queen, have written to RDF Media Group, the film company which made the programme for the corporation. It is understood the