A French court on Tuesday began the trial to determine the cause of the Air France Concorde jet crash outside Paris in 2000.
President Obama will end NASA’s return mission to the moon and turn to private companies to launch astronauts into space when he unveils his budget request to Congress next week, an administration official said Thursday.
The Obama administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of President Bush’s signature education law, No Child Left Behind, and will call for broad changes in how schools are judged to be succeeding or failing, as well as for the elimination of the law’s 2014 deadline for bringing every American child to academic proficiency.
Ireland´s restrictive abortion laws increase health risks to women and expose them to deliberate misinformation about abortion procedures, according to a released on Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW).
Apple could face legal problems in registering a trademark for its new iPad tablet computer product announced on Wednesday.
US President Barack Obama sharply criticized the Supreme Court´s recent decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which eased restrictions on political campaign spending by corporations and labor unions, in his State of the Union Address Wednesday night.
Government measures to freeze the assets of people suspected of terrorist involvement were overturned by the Supreme Court today.
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Tuesday a federal ban on texting while driving for commercial truck and bus drivers.
The Supreme Court of California ruled 5-2 Monday to authorize the use of "John Doe" arrest warrants, which replace an unknown suspect´s name with his or her DNA profile as the unique identifier.
China sentenced four more people to death for involvement in rioting last year in the restive far-western region of Xinjiang, the country´s worst ethnic violence in decades, an official said Wednesday.
The government is invoking an obscure legal principle to dismiss claims of torture and rape by the British colonial administration in Kenya, campaigners claimed.
The Roberts court ended its term last summer avoiding a constitutional showdown with Congress over the Voting Rights Act. But its first major decision of the current term might signal a new willingness to act boldly.
A federal employee filed suit on Wednesday against the federal government seeking to add her same-sex spouse to her family health insurance plan. Lambda Legal brought the suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of Karen Golinski, a federal court employee who was married in California during the six-month period when same-sex marriage licenses were granted under state law. Golinski is seeking an injunction against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which refuses to enroll her same-sex spouse, citing the 1998 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
Sentencing has been delayed until March for a Los Angeles film-making couple convicted of bribing Thai officials to run a film festival.
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In the combined cases of Mac´s Shell Service, Inc. v. Shell Oil Products Co. and Shell Oil Products Co. v. Mac´s Shell Service, Inc., the Court heard arguments on whether a service station operator can bring a constructive termination action under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act when the operator continues to run the franchise with the same trademark, fuel, and premises.
The chief executive of Cadbury stands to pocket cash and shares worth £12m from the company´s £11.9bn sale to the American food giant Kraft in a deal that also hands fees of at least £250m to legions of City advisers.
"From beginning to end," the Supreme Court intoned Tuesday, "judicial proceedings conducted for the purpose of deciding whether a defendant shall be put to death must be conducted with dignity and respect."
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in five cases. In Doe v. Reed, the Court will consider whether the First Amendment allows a state to compel the release of identity information about petition signers.
A Hindu man will go to the court of appeal today as part of his ongoing fight to have open-air cremations in the UK. Davender Ghai, 71, from Tyneside, wants the right to burn funeral pyres in accordance with his religious and cultural beliefs.
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