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Judge may trim Apple's $1 billion patent verdict
A federal judge on Thursday appeared ready to trim millions from a $1.05 billion jury verdict Apple Inc. won over Samsung Electronics this summer as ...
NYC settles suit by abused foster kids for $9.7M
New York City will pay $9.7 million to settle a lawsuit by 10 disabled people who were fraudulently adopted by a woman and claimed they were ...
Calif. sues Delta Airlines over mobile app privacy
California sued Delta Airlines Inc. on Thursday, alleging the Atlanta-based company is breaking state law by not warning users that the airline is ...
Alaska reclaims missing moon rocks since 1973
A display of moon rocks that disappeared from an Alaska museum after an arson fire nearly four decades ago has been returned to the state following ...
Marine brig officials grilled about GI's jailing
A former Marine Corps brig commander testified Thursday that a vague rule meant he could keep Pfc. Bradley Manning on suicide watch even after a ...
RI to seek dismissal of challenge to pension law
The high-stakes legal dispute over Rhode Island's public retirement overhaul faces a key court date Friday when attorneys for the state will ask a ...
Drought revives old water war among river states
The water wars are raging again in America's heartland, where drought-stricken states are pleading for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri ...
Wells Fargo boss talks bank fees, economy, taxes
John Stumpf is a survivor. He's a CEO who kept his job as peers fell after the 2008 financial crisis, a strategist who expanded his company while ...
US attorney in New Orleans resigns amid probe
New Orleans' corruption-busting federal prosecutor resigned Thursday after two top deputies became embroiled in a scandal that threatens to undermine ...
Actor Stephen Baldwin charged in NY tax case
Actor Stephen Baldwin was charged Thursday with failing to pay New York state taxes for three years, amassing a $350,000 debt. Rockland County ...
Condemned obese Ohio killer asks board for mercy
A condemned obese killer should be spared because of lingering doubts about his "legal and moral guilt" and the conduct of defense and prosecution ...
Police: Conn. man fathered child with daughter
A 46-year-old Connecticut man and his 23-year-old daughter told police they weren't certain they were related before beginning a sexual relationship ...
Bosnian court: 18 years for US embassy attacker
A Bosnian court on Thursday convicted a man who opened fire on the U.S. embassy of terrorism and sentenced him to 18 years in prison. Mevlid Jasarevic ...
Colo. shooting suspect: Brief romance, few friends
It didn't take long for suspicions to surface at a Colorado university that the man who just hours earlier shot up a midnight movie was a student who ...
Tech titans renew legal battle over smartphones
The epic $1 billion patent fight between the world's top two smartphone makers resumes Thursday in a federal courtroom when Apple Inc. and Samsung ...
China bus drivers given bail after strike
Four Chinese immigrant bus drivers accused of inciting the city-state's first labor strike in 26 years have been granted bail in a case that ...
Marine official: Manning held improperly in brig
An Army private charged with sending reams of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks was wrongly kept on suicide watch for at ...
Half brother accused of killing autistic Wis. man
Matthew Graville couldn't read well or remember numbers. He could drive his friends crazy with his incessant talking. But all he really wanted, by all ...
Social Security fast-tracks rare-disease claims
In an effort to ease the burden of being stricken with a debilitating condition, the Social Security Administration is expanding a program that ...
Utah inmate sentenced for killing prison guard
A Utah inmate covered in neo-Nazi tattoos was given a life sentence without the possibility of parole Wednesday for killing a prison guard during a ...
Beard, other issues remain for new Fort Hood judge
The new judge taking over the Fort Hood shooting case will likely confront many of the questions that faced her predecessor, including one that helped ...
Court hears challenge to Obama recess appointments
Republicans and business groups told a federal appeals court Wednesday that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution earlier this year when ...
Rutgers elects to sue the Big East over exit fee
Rutgers University is suing the Big East Conference, trying to avoid paying an exit fee. Rutgers is trying to avoid a $10 million hit for leaving en ...
Paraguayan farmers question probe into killings
Lucia Aguero stood with the other farmers in the standoff. About 300 of them had occupied the rich politician's land that they insisted wasn't legally ...
Justices struggle with international custody law
The Supreme Court seemed to struggle Wednesday to find a middle ground on whether American courts have any further say in an international custody ...