Hobby Lobby to forfeit illegally smuggled Iraqi artifacts in settlement with US

Arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby has agreed to forfeit thousands of illegally smuggled ancient Middle Eastern artifacts obtained from antiquities dealers for a Bible museum headed by its president, the company and U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The forfeiture...

Detained Immigrant Children Are Entitled to Hearings, Court Rules

By MIRIAM JORDAN July 5, 2017 LOS ANGELES — Undocumented immigrant children detained by federal authorities are entitled to hearings to determine whether they should remain confined, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday. A three-judge panel of...

Japan emerging as a leader on trade liberalization, says APEC official Alan Bollard

President Donald Trump may be talking tough on trade, pulling the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), but most of the rest of the world is pushing ahead. Japan was emerging as a leader on free trade, as it edges closer to a free trade pact with the...