Orange County prosecutors charged two women Wednesday with running real estate fraud schemes that bilked more than $2 million from Vietnamese-Americans who believed they were investing in foreclosed properties or who were themselves in foreclosure.

Pirates made millions of dollars last year in ransoms for hijacked vessels and crews, according to head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC). Yury Fedotov briefed the Security Council on the problem of piracy off the coast of Somalia, which he said is a growing issue. He warned that the laundering [...]

The Bombay HC directed city police to register an FIR against Cong leader Kripashankar Singh for 'criminal misconduct' under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

By Stephen King. (Scribner, $35.) An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald.

In an election-year showdown likely to hinge on the economy, President Obama and his Republican rivals are all fashioning themselves as corporate tax slayers. Obama today unveiled his proposal to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 to 28 percent, putting himself in the ballpark...>

The Los Angeles Dodgers fired 300 security staff before a fan was badly beaten at a game last year and the baseball team and its owner should face a lawsuit over the incident, the fan's attorney said on Wednesday.

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In another blow to the trustee in the Bernard Madoff case, a federal judge threw out a $20 billion lawsuit attempting to recover more of the stolen funds.

In another blow to the trustee in the Bernard Madoff case, a federal judge threw out a $20 billion lawsuit attempting to recover more of the stolen funds.