Expert: Dying woman should have got Irish abortion
A miscarrying woman who died in an Irish hospital should have had her blood poisoning detected much sooner and been offered an abortion to improve her ...
Court says human genes cannot be patented
The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously threw out attempts to patent human genes, siding with advocates who say the multibillion-dollar ...
New anti-demonstration rule at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has come up with a new regulation banning demonstrations on its grounds, two days after a broader anti-demonstration law was ...
Debate over social issues emerges
A fresh debate has erupted within the GOP over social issues. Republicans in Congress and statehouses across the nation are pressing for restrictive ...
South Africa president: Mandela is improving
Nelson Mandela's health is improving but the 94-year-old beloved anti-apartheid hero remains in serious condition, South Africa's president said ...
Satellite boost for Greece's public TV holdouts
Journalists from axed Greek state broadcaster ERT returned to the airwaves Thursday amid an escalating crisis that saw the country rocked by a general ...
DC circuit reviewing judge's alleged misconduct
A council of federal judges in Washington will look into a misconduct complaint against a conservative judge who is alleged to have made racially ...
Lawsuit: Man allowed to curse on NY ticket payment
A 22-year-old Connecticut man who wrote obscenities and "Tyranny" on his speeding ticket payment claims in a federal lawsuit that his free speech ...
Senate leader won't weaken gun background checks
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he won't accept watered-down background checks as the price for pushing gun control legislation through the ...
Survey offers complex portrait of LGBT Americans
Even as they acknowledge greater acceptance by society, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans are, on average, less happy than other U.S.
UN says nearly 93,000 killed in Syrian conflict
Syria's upwardly spiraling violence has resulted in the confirmed killings of almost 93,000 people, the United Nations' human rights office said ...
Utah home to NSA's new mega-warehouse for data
The nation's new billion-dollar epicenter for fighting global cyberthreats sits just south of Salt Lake City, tucked away on a National Guard base at ...
NSA head says spy programs thwarted terror attacks
Once-secret surveillance programs were crucial in enabling the U.S. government to thwart dozens of terrorist attacks, says the director of the ...
White House lawyer replacing retiring CIA deputy
CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell is stepping down and being replaced by White House lawyer Avril Haines, who will be the first woman to hold the ...
NSA leaker mysterious despite hours of interviews
The man who told the world about the U.S. government's gigantic data grab also talks a lot about himself. Mostly through his own words, a picture of ...
Bloomberg pressures donors over gun control votes
Six months after the Newtown school shooting, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is stepping up his gun control campaign by asking donors not to support ...
NRA goes after Sen. Manchin over guns compromise
After years of showering U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin with stellar ratings and campaign endorsements, the National Rifle Association targeted the West ...
NSA director: Programs disrupted dozens of attacks
The director of the National Security Agency vigorously defended once-secret surveillance programs as an effective tool in keeping America safe, ...
Tunisia imprisons 3 European topless activists
A Tunisian court on Wednesday convicted three European feminist activists who staged a topless courthouse protest last month, sentencing them to four ...
Irish PM: Abortion activists send letters in blood
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny says anti-abortion activists in his predominantly Roman Catholic country are inundating his office with threatening ...
House panel backs bill to ban later-term abortions
The House is girding for another wrenching debate on abortion after a House panel on Wednesday approved legislation that would ban almost all ...
NSA director: Programs work to protect America
The director of the National Security Agency says he wants to provide as much public detail as possible on the agency's surveillance programs, arguing ...
Challenges to phone records face legal obstacles
The government's massive collection of Americans' phone records is drawing protests and lawsuits from civil liberties groups, but major legal ...
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