Obama expected to nominate Perez for Labor post
A person familiar with White House deliberations says President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Justice Department official Thomas Perez to head ...
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 ...
Panel criticizes military on sexual assault cases
In a stinging rebuke of the military's efforts to curb sexual assault, members of a Senate panel hammered Defense Department officials on Wednesday ...
Mass. judge sends 2 drug lab cases to high court
A justice of the state's highest court agreed on Wednesday to ask the full court to decide two cases in which prosecutors are challenging how lower ...
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.
Egypt: Morsi's government appeals vote suspension
A government legal agency representing Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi appealed on Wednesday the court-ordered suspension of a controversial ...
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 ...
Judge: Indiana teacher can sue diocese in IVF case
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an Indiana woman who says a Catholic diocese fired her from her teaching job because she ...
Dutch Supreme Court rules a 'tongue kiss' not rape
The Dutch Supreme Court narrowed its definition of rape Tuesday, saying that a "forced tongue kiss" should no longer be considered among the worst ...
Election dispute big test for Kenya's top judge
Confidence was so low in Kenya's courts after its 2007 election that people preferred to settle their disputes with machetes and bows and arrows.
Senate panel ready to OK gun background checks
Democrats are ready to muscle expanded background checks and other gun curbs through a Senate committee, giving President Barack Obama an initial if ...
Appeal by photographer in gay bias case is heard
In a case that tests anti-discrimination protection for gays, a religious rights group told the New Mexico Supreme Court on Monday that a photographer ...
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