Law & Society

A US court of appeals vacated the conviction of a Palestinian activist charged with immigration fraud for failing to tell US officials she had been imprisoned in Israel for bombing a supermarket that killed two people.

According to court papers, UBS AG has agreed to pay $33 million to resolve a U.S. regulator's claims that it sold toxic mortgage-backed securities to credit unions that later failed.

A federal judge has granted a discovery order to extract explanation as to why Clinton was allowed to use a private email server as Secretary of State and whether she intentionally undermined the Freedom of Information Act.