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High court rejects Medicare challenge
The Supreme Court has turned away a challenge from former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and other Social Security recipients who say they have the ...
Court won't hear Ga. Gun lawsuit
The Supreme Court won't overturn a Georgia law banning firearms in churches and other places of worship. The high court on Monday refused to hear an ...
Hugo Chavez's allies re-elect legislative chief
Allies of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez on Saturday chose to keep the same National Assembly president — a man who could be in line to step ...
Venezuela VP: Chavez could be sworn in by court
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez could be sworn in by the Supreme Court later on if he's not able to take the oath of office before lawmakers next ...
Electoral College count affirms Obama's win
Congress made the obvious official on Friday. President Barack Obama has been re-elected. In a joint session, Congress formally certified that Obama ...
Calif. lawmaker to bring back rape loophole bill
An appellate court ruling overturning a rape conviction because the victim wasn't married prompted anger Friday from women's groups and a state ...
Indian court to rule on generic drug industry
From Africa's crowded AIDS clinics to the malarial jungles of Southeast Asia, the lives of millions of ill people in the developing world are hanging ...
Transocean's $1.4B oil spill deal will help Gulf
A $1.4 billion settlement between the Justice Department and Deepwater Horizon rig owner Transocean Ltd. will pump hundreds of millions of dollars ...
Disputes brewing over Hugo Chavez's inauguration
President Hugo Chavez is due to be sworn in for a new term in less than a week and his closest allies still aren't saying what they plan to do if the ...
Death sentence overturned in prison guard killing
The South Dakota Supreme Court has overturned a state prison inmate's death sentence for the killing of a prison guard nearly two years ago. In an ...
Inmate ordered retried in '80 'waiting ever since'
Jerry Hartfield was still a young man when an uncle visited him in prison to tell him that his murder conviction had been overturned and he would get ...
Pa. governor sues NCAA over Penn State sanctions
Pennsylvania's governor, in a challenge to the NCAA's powers, claimed in a lawsuit Wednesday that college sports' governing body overstepped its ...
Indian court may suspend lawmakers facing crimes
Indian lawmakers facing sexual assault charges against women could be suspended from office if the country's top court rules in favor of a petition ...
Portugal's highest court to asses state budget
Bailed-out Portugal's president has asked the country's Constitutional Court to check whether new austerity measures included in this year's state ...
Judge halts contraceptive mandate for Mich. firm
A federal judge has ruled a property management company owned by the founder of Domino's Pizza doesn't have to immediately implement mandatory ...
Roberts urges full financial support for the court
Urging full financial support for the U.S. court system, Chief Justice John Roberts said in his year-end report Monday that the federal judiciary, ...
Court reduces Israeli whistleblower's sentence
Israel's Supreme Court has reduced the sentence of a former Israeli soldier who passed hundreds of classified military documents to a newspaper ...
NY plaintiff: Gay benefits 'bigger than marriage'
At age 83, Edith Windsor gets plenty of compliments for her courage to take on the federal government in a landmark case that has put attitudes about ...
Argentina to court: revert order on debt holdouts
Argentina is asking a US appeals court to reverse an order for the country to pay $1.33 billion to "holdout" creditors who refused to join two swaps ...
Paintings outrage Islamic hard-liners in Pakistan
Pakistan's leading arts college has pushed boundaries before in this conservative nation. But when a series of paintings depicting Muslim clerics in ...
Argentina's fight on defaulted debt takes new step
It's been a decade since Argentina tarnished its reputation worldwide and became an economic misfit by engaging in the biggest sovereign debt default ...
Argentine court rejects intervention in media case
Argentina's Supreme Court rejected a proposal by the government to use a new legal regulation to get the top court to intervene in the case of a law ...
Richard Adams, early figure in gay marriage, dies
Richard Adams, who used both the altar and the courtroom to help begin the push for gay marriage four decades before it reached the center of the ...
Key events in Egypt's revolution and transition
Egyptians are voting Saturday in the second round of a referendum on disputed draft constitution that has polarized the country and plunged it into ...
Lawyer: Man likely back in Chicago jail he escaped
A convicted bank robber captured days after a daring escape from a high-rise jail in downtown Chicago will likely return to the same federal lockup, ...