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Vilma's testimony ends latest bounty hearings
The latest round of appeal hearings in the NFL's bounty investigation concluded Monday evening following witness appearances by former Minnesota ...
Dem on trial seen as part of old Chicago politics
The grizzled Chicago Democrat has compared himself to a virile hog, likened a then-chief prosecutor to a Nazi and bragged about directing government ...
Kutcher is Jobs, Seyfried is Lovelace at Sundance
Ashton Kutcher as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Amanda Seyfried as porn star Linda Lovelace are among the highlights at January's Sundance Film ...
New EPA rule could upend high court runoff case
Wearing his gray morning coat and striped trousers, Justice Department lawyer Malcolm Stewart was the very picture of Supreme Court propriety Monday ...
Peru asks UN court to set sea border with Chile
Peru asked the U.N.'s highest court Monday to set a maritime border between it and Chile, in a case that could greatly expand the amount of rich seas ...
Egypt's highest court joins judicial strike
Egypt's highest court has joined a judicial rebellion against President Mohammed Morsi by declaring an open-ended strike on the day it was supposed ...
Egypt's president sets date for constitution vote
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi called Saturday for a referendum in two weeks on a contentious draft constitution, setting a date for another ...
High Court to decide how logging roads regulated
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to switch gears on more than 30 years of regulating the muddy water running off logging roads into rivers.
'Not awkward': Vilma, Smith, Williams face-to-face
It had been 10 months since New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma and defensive end Will Smith were face to face with their former defensive ...
US government releases once-secret Watergate files
Watergate Judge John J. Sirica aided the prosecution in pursuing the White House connection to the Democratic headquarters break-in by providing the ...
Egypt draft constitution sparks mass protest
Protesters flooded Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday in the second giant rally this week, angrily vowing to bring down a draft constitution approved by ...
Court to decide if human genes can be patented
The Supreme Court announced Friday it will decide whether companies can patent human genes, a decision that could reshape medical research in the ...
Ban on gay change therapy faces first legal test
A first-of-its-kind California law prohibiting licensed psychotherapists from counseling gay minors on how to become heterosexual faced its first ...
Gay marriage before Supreme Court? Cases weighed
The running fight over gay marriage is shifting from the ballot box to the Supreme Court. Three weeks after voters backed same-sex marriage in three ...
US appeals court stays affirmative action ruling
A federal appeals court is temporarily staying its declaration that Michigan's ban on affirmative action in college admissions is unconstitutional ...
Court: Can generic makers be sued for drug flaws?
The Supreme Court will decide whether generic drug manufacturers can be held responsible in state courts for possible design defects that are in the ...
Attorneys for Strauss-Kahn deny settlement reached
Attorneys for Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Friday denied that the former International Monetary Fund chief has reached a settlement with a New York City ...
Egypt Islamists hurriedly approve new constitution
Islamists approved a draft constitution for Egypt early Friday without the participation of liberal and Christian members, seeking to pre-empt a court ...
LA judge dismisses suit over park Nativity scenes
A Los Angeles federal judge on Thursday dismissed a Christian group's lawsuit to force suburban Santa Monica to reopen spaces in a city park to ...
After 1 key witness in bounty appeal, now Williams
Lawyers for players appealing NFL suspensions in the New Orleans Saints bounties case cross-examined one key witness Thursday. Now they're supposed ...
Palestinians seek UN upgrade but powers elusive
Although Palestinians achieved their goal of being upgraded to nonmember observer state status at the United Nations on Thursday, they still face a ...