Lockerbie Bomber: The only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, has died at 60, The New York Times reports. Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi had been living in Libya since 2009, when Scotland released him on humanitarian grounds, saying he was close to death with cancer.
Coming to America: Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese activist at the center of a diplomatic dispute between China and the United States, arrived in the United States on Saturday. The Washington Post examines the negotiations that made his departure from China possible.
Summit Arrests: Police last weekend arrested dozens of anti-war demonstrators in Chicago, as world leaders met in the city for the first two days of a NATO summit, the Chicago Tribune reports. Several protesters and police officers were injured.
Facebook: Facebook Inc.'s stock almost suffered a loss on its first day on Friday, despite predictions that it would soar, The Wall Street Journal reports. The stock, which had an offering price of $38 a share, rose 0.61 percent by day's end.Malpractice Suit: Dewey & LeBoeuf in February quietly settled a malpractice suit against it by state insurance regulators who claimed that predecessor firm LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae had a role in a scheme to push General American Life Insurance Co. into insolvency and?the hands of LeBouef Lamb client MetLife Inc. The Am Law Daily explores whether the suit fueled Dewey's financial woes.
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