Chevron overcomes in Nigeria

Chevron Corp successfully beat back an attempt by Nigerian villagers to hold it liable for a deadly clash on an oil platform in Nigeria, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. In 2008 a Northern California jury decided Chevron did not…

US rising poverty records to be released

The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase  on President Barack Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty. Census figures…

Former bin Laden aide calls for ceasefire

A former jihadist leader who spent several years with Osama bin Laden published an open letter on Friday calling for him to end al- Qaida’s “armed struggle.” Noman Benotman, a former senior leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group who…