The case filed by Ecuadorean indigenous groups is one of the largest environmental suits against an oil firm and could set a precedent. Chevron dismisses it as a 'charade.'
The Justice Department, once known for taking down giant corporations, has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years.
AP - Democrats plan to push legislation this spring that would force the Iraqi government to spend its own surplus in oil revenues to rebuild the country, sparing U.S. dollars.
AP - The Senate is working to quickly pass a grab bag of measures aimed at helping homeowners and businesses weather the housing crisis as a key House panel hears from experts on a broader government rescue plan for struggling borrowers.
AP - The scared girl, already a mother at 16, whispered into a cell phone: she wanted out. She'd been forced to spiritually marry a man more than three times her age, becoming his seventh wife.
Authorities are bracing for protests Wednesday as runners plan to carry the Olympic torch through the streets of San Francisco -- but they hope to avoid the chaos that disrupted the torch relay in London and Paris.
Tipped that girls as young as 13 were being forced to enter "spiritual marriages," have sex and bear children, Texas officials raided an isolated polygamist retreat in West Texas, according to court documents. The teen girl whose phone call prompted the search reported being beaten, choked and forced into sex by the man she married at age 15.