Oct 03 GOP Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Delay Ballot Change Ruling By PBS News Hour Republicans also plan to file suit in federal district court on behalf of overseas military personnel who received absentee ballots. Continue reading
Oct 02 N.J. Supreme Court Rules to Allow Ballot Change By Admin The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled unanimously late Wednesday that the Democratic party may replace embattled incumbent Sen. Robert Torricelli's name with that of former Sen. Frank Lautenberg on the Nov. 5 general election ballot. Continue reading
Oct 02 Former Enron Financial Chief Faces Mulitple Fraud Charges Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson announced Wednesday that multiple fraud charges have been filed against former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow in connection with last year's billion dollar collapse of the energy giant. Continue reading
Sep 27 Watch Guarding the Homeland The U.S. unveils a new command center aimed at bolstering domestic defense efforts. Continue watching
Sep 26 Former Worldcom Controller Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges WorldCom Inc.'s former controller pleaded guilty to securities fraud, saying he was executing the orders of "senior management" in falsifying records, a misstep that helped create one of the biggest accounting scandals in U.S. history. Continue reading
Sep 26 Chinese Web Writer Arrested for Subversion A Chinese author who published essays on the Internet about politics was arrested on charges of subversion, a U.S.-based journalists' rights group reported this week. Continue reading
Sep 26 Watch Findings of Failure The two top House members on the Congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks discuss possible intelligence failures. Continue watching
Sep 26 Watch Background: Intelligence Inquiries Kwame Holman reports on this week's Congressional hearings on what the CIA and FBI knew before the Sept. 11 attacks. Continue watching
Sep 25 U.S. Indicts Colombian Paramilitary Chief The leader of Colombia's violent right-wing paramilitary forces, indicted by the U.S. on drug trafficking charges Tuesday, has professed his innocence, but promised to surrender to authorities. Continue reading
Sep 16 U.S. Arrests Six in Probe of Possible Al-Qaida Group U.S. officials arrested a man of Yemeni descent in Bahrain Sunday who has allegedly been operating as part of an al-Qaida sleeper cell, the New York Times reported Monday. Continue reading