Jul 01 Watch Strauss-Kahn Released From House Arrest as Case Enters Legal Limbo After a court hearing Friday in New York, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund, was released from house arrest, but he still faces charges of sexual assault on a hotel maid. Jeffrey Brown reports on the latest… Continue watching
Jul 01 Strauss-Kahn Released from House Arrest, Prosecutors Look at CIA Detainee Deaths By News Desk 11:45 a.m. ET | After a court hearing in New York, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest, although his travel documents are still being held and the case against him has not been dismissed, with the next hearing… Continue reading
Jun 30 Doctors Tell Congress How to Rein in Prescription Drug Abuse More than 125 physicians descended on Capitol Hill this week to demand some relief in their fight against prescription drug addiction. With nearly 30,000 Americans dying from overdose last year - roughly half from prescription drugs - they say it's… Continue reading
Jun 29 Health Reform Law’s Supporters Encouraged by Appeals Court Ruling By Maureen Hoch In the legal saga playing out over the health reform law, the Obama administration picked up a victory Wednesday: For the first time, a federal appeals court ruled on the case and voted 2-1 that the measure is constitutional. Continue reading
Jun 28 Watch Roberts Court Wraps up Term, Leaving Significant Conservative Mark Roberts Court Begins to Leave Its Legal Mark… Continue watching
Jun 28 Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Trial Begins, but Value of Process in Question By Larisa Epatko The second major trial of top Khmer Rouge leaders began Monday, but questions remained about whether the prosecutions would expand to other members of the regime even as Cambodia works to get beyond its past. Continue reading
Jun 27 Watch Blagojevich Joins Ranks of Illinois Gubernatorial Convicts Blagojevich Found Guilty on 17 Charges of Corruption… Continue watching
Jun 27 Watch News Wrap: Judge Blocks Parts of Georgia’s Illegal Immigration Law In other news Monday, a federal judge in Atlanta blocked parts of Georgia's crackdown on illegal immigration from taking effect. The judge issued a stay against enforcing penalties against harboring undocumented people. Also, 200 Syrian opposition figures and intellectuals met… Continue watching
Jun 27 Watch Citing Violence in Fairy Tales, Justices Strike Down Calif. Video Game Law The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Monday to uphold an appeals court ruling to throw out California's ban on the sale and rental of violent video games to minors. In a separate decision, the court struck down a provision of Arizona's… Continue watching
Jun 27 Blagojevich Found Guilty on Corruption Charges By Beat Beat Jurors found former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich guilty on nearly all counts he faced in a retrial, including charges that he tried to sell President Obama's open U.S. Senate seat. Blagojevich had denied any wrongdoing. Continue reading