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Clinton joins other Dems in backing gay marriage
Hillary Rodham Clinton's embrace of gay marriage Monday signals she may be seriously weighing a 2016 presidential run and trying to avoid the type of ...
Reporter in Colo shootings fights order to testify
A Fox News reporter in New York is appealing a judge's order to appear in a Colorado court to reveal who told her about a notebook that movie theater ...
Woman who lost downloading case says she can't pay
A Minnesota woman at the center of a long-running court fight over the unauthorized downloading of copyrighted music said there's still no way she can ...
High court divided over Ariz. voter requirement
Supreme Court justices disagreed Monday over whether states can require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal ...
US: Congo warlord Ntaganda turns himself in
A Congolese warlord accused of conscripting child soldiers who had lived as an international fugitive for years surrendered to the United States ...
Lawyer: ICC should drop Kenyatta case
A defense lawyer for President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya told judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday that prosecutors should drop ...
Villagers say Rwandan troops crossed into Congo
Villagers in a town on the Congo-Rwanda border say they saw a half dozen trucks with Rwandan soldiers cross into Congo last week to lend support to ...
India extends ban on departure of Italian envoy
India's Supreme Court on Monday indefinitely extended its order barring the Italian ambassador from leaving the country and rejected his explanation ...
Ohio school rape trial closing, verdict Sunday
The accuser in the rape trial of two Ohio high school football players testified Saturday as the trial neared an end that she recalled drinking at a ...
Tear gas in Kenya as prime minister files suit
Police in Kenya lobbed tear gas Saturday on crowds supporting the prime minister as he filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to void the ...
Judge rules secret FBI letters unconstitutional
They're called national security letters and the FBI issues thousands of them a year to banks, phone companies and other businesses demanding customer ...
Appeals court reverses CIA drone secrecy ruling
A federal appeals court Friday reversed a lower court ruling that allowed the CIA to refuse to confirm whether it had information on the use of ...
Venezuela's opposition ground down by Chavistas
The people tapped by Hugo Chavez to carry on his socialist revolution seem to be improvising the rules of governing as they march toward what most ...
5 convicted of inventing movie to hide tax fraud
The clue was in the title. In some ways "A Landscape of Lies" was a typical indie film, with a tiny budget, a B-list cast and an award from an ...
Top Nepal judge becomes head of interim government
Nepal's chief judge was named head of an interim government in an attempt by the Himalayan country's main political parties to cure the paralysis and ...
Hungary rejects criticism of constitution changes
Rejecting criticism from the EU, the U.S. and human rights groups, Hungary's prime minister insisted Thursday that recent constitutional changes ...
Stories from NJ homeless camp going before judge
One is a nurse with three college degrees who says she was hit by a car and disabled. Another says he was born with brain damage and has bipolar ...
Court removes judge from Whitey Bulger's trial
The judge who was set to preside over the trial of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger was removed from the case Thursday by a federal appeals ...
Ex-prosecutor: Int'l court cases changed Kenya
The former International Criminal Court chief prosecutor said Thursday that cases he launched prosecuting violence after Kenya's 2007 elections were ...
Ill. gov. wants appeal of concealed carry ruling
Gov. Pat Quinn said Wednesday that he wants the Illinois attorney general to appeal a federal court ruling that the state's last-in-the-nation ...
Phoenix police mark 50 years since Miranda arrest
An arrest in Arizona 50 years ago that led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision is the subject of an exhibit that includes the handwritten ...
Diverse high court families mirror country
With their Ivy League pedigrees and East Coast addresses, Supreme Court justices often are rightly described as unrepresentative of the nation.
Labor board to appeal recess case to Supreme Court
The National Labor Relations Board said Tuesday it plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a far-reaching decision that invalidated President Barack ...
Feds bust up $100M NC crop insurance fraud ring
Federal investigators have unraveled a massive scheme among dozens of insurance agents, claims adjusters, brokers and farmers in eastern North ...