A group of public interest lawyers learned Wednesday that the Supreme Court giveth, and the Supreme Court taketh away.
Federal law enforcement agencies have begun a criminal investigation of the use of credit cards issued by the Republican Party of Florida to elected officials and staff members, according to sources familiar with the inquiry.
Eight law enforcement agencies in Virginia and Maryland have recently joined a sweeping federal program that aims to identify and deport illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes.
Public borrowing hit its highest level since records began during the 12 months to March but the figures reveal Labour has undershot its target for the year, potentially fuelling the row over the Government´s plan to raise national insurance.
Facebook has announced plans to spread its influence more widely across the internet by weaving its service into all websites.
President Obama is traveling to the shadow of Wall Street on Thursday to counter what he calls "the furious efforts of industry lobbyists" trying to weaken or kill new financial regulations that he says are needed to stave off a second Great Depression.
Goldman Sachs has announced it will pay its bankers a share of $5.5 billion (£3.5 billion) for three months work just hours after the Financial Services Authority launched a formal investigation into the US bank.
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 8-1 in United States v. Stevens that a federal law banning depictions of animal cruelty violates the First Amendment.
Dorothy Height, who as longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women was the leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement, died Tuesday. She was 98.
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in four cases. In Costco v. Omega, the court will decide whether the first-sale doctrine, which provides that the owner of any particular copy "lawfully made under this title" may resell that good without the authority of the copyright holder, applies to imported goods manufactured abroad.
Gross mortgage lending rose by 24 per cent between February and March, but the market is still “quiet and subdued”, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
The law firm Paul Weiss has hired a prominent Justice Department prosecutor in an effort to build a Washington practice that defends corporations accused of trying to gain business overseas through bribes.
A political rebellion is brewing inside an old funeral home near the state Capitol here. Frustrated liberals and labor organizers are taking aim at the Democratic Party, rushing to gather enough signatures to start a third party that they believe could help oust three Democratic congressmen.
With little prospect of an early reopening of some of Europe’s busiest airportson Monday, governments faced growing criticism over their seemingly ponderous response to five consecutive days of flight chaos, and stranded passengers waited anxiously for word of when they might continue their journeys.
President Obama on Thursday ordered his health secretary to issue new rules aimed at granting hospital visiting rights to same-sex partners.
In a highly unusual legal action against an alleged leaker of government secrets, a federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a former senior National Security Agency official on charges of providing classified information to a newspaper reporter in hundreds of e-mail messages in 2006 and 2007.
Lawmakers in the Czech Republic have endorsed the European Union´s Lisbon Treaty. The government in Prague was the last to begin the process of ratifying the treaty, which will overhaul the way the EU does business.
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum announced Tuesday that Georgia will join 18 other states in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the recently enacted health care bill.
The Arizona House approved a bill Tuesday that would establish one of the strictest illegal immigration policies in the nation. The bill would criminalize being in the US without proper documentation and would give law enforcement officers increased ability to require
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday called on the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) to end prison segregation based on HIV status.
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