
Jury selection enters Day 3 in Zimmerman trial
Attorneys trying to seat a jury in George Zimmerman's trial for shooting an unarmed teen stopped questioning a white man in his 20s Wednesday after ...

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, ...
Pair face murder trial in 2nd faith-healing death
A Philadelphia couple who believes in faith healing over medicine was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on murder charges in the second pneumonia death ...

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 ...
US payroll, financial firms hacked; 8 charged
U.S. prosecutors announced fraud and other charges Wednesday against eight alleged members of an international cybercrime ring that the government ...

Feds: Bulger at center of murder, mayhem in Boston
Reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger was a "hands-on killer" responsible for "murder and mayhem" in Boston for almost 30 years, a federal prosecutor ...

Judge: Supreme Court sign ban unconstitutional
In a case that could end with the Supreme Court deciding how much free speech to allow on its own doorstep, a federal judge has thrown out a law ...

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 ...

CEO describes Jackson as forceful businessman
The head of AEG Live LLC told jurors Wednesday that he knew Michael Jackson as a sophisticated, forceful businessman and not the drugged-up performer ...
Court: Texas inmate's decades-old sentence invalid
The life sentence given to a Texas man who has remained in prison for 33 years since being pulled off of death row isn't valid, Texas' highest ...
Priest, ex-teacher get prison in Philly abuse case
Exceeding sentencing guidelines, a judge on Wednesday handed down prison terms of at least six years to a Roman Catholic priest and a former teacher ...

ECB official defends crisis measures in court
A top European Central Bank official rejected accusations that the bank had exceeded its powers while fighting the financial crisis, telling Germany's ...

Lawsuits over government surveillance languish
Before there was Edward Snowden and the leak of explosive documents showing widespread government surveillance, there was Mark Klein — a ...

Transgender student suit goes to Maine high court
Lawyers for a transgender girl and an elementary school that required the fifth-grader to use a staff bathroom instead of the girls restroom clashed ...
Fla. judge refuses to dismiss MLB drug lawsuit
A judge has refused for a second time to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Major League Baseball against a South Florida clinic and its operators over ...
Prosecutor brings $5M tax fraud case against Messi
A tax fraud lawsuit has been filed against Barcelona star Lionel Messi for $5.3 million in unpaid income tax. The document presented to the court on ...

UK top court rules against oil tycoon in divorce
Britain's top court on Wednesday handed an oil tycoon a costly setback in a divorce case, ruling he must give his ex-wife assets held by companies he ...
Pfizer settles Protonix patent case for $2.15B
Two generic drugmakers will pay $2.15 billion to Pfizer and Takeda Pharmaceutical to settle a patent fight over the heartburn treatment Protonix.

Dutch cafe owners on trial for selling weed
Owners and staff of three cannabis-selling cafes went on trial Wednesday in the southern Netherlands charged with selling weed to foreigners, in a ...

OTC morning-after pill sales coming - but not yet
Don't look for the morning-after pill to move next to the condoms on drugstore shelves right away — but after a decade-plus fight, it appears it ...
Day 2 of Zimmerman jury selection, questioning
During two days of questioning, prosecutors and George Zimmerman's attorneys were unable to find potential jurors who hadn't heard something about the ...

Evidence suggests GI's leaks revealed tactics
The mountain of classified material Army Pfc. Bradley Manning gave to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks revealed sensitive information about ...

NY lawsuit over Marvel's Ghost Rider reinstated
A lawsuit against comic book publisher Marvel Entertainment by a man who claims he owns the rights to the Ghost Rider character was reinstated on ...

Fort Hood suspect, defense attorneys at odds
Defense attorneys ordered to help the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage said Tuesday that it would be unethical ...
ACLU sues over NSA phone records program
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Obama administration Tuesday, asking the government to halt a phone-tracking program that collects the ...