Google has settled a privacy lawsuit filed by some users of its social networking experiment, Buzz.
Some justices voice support for a law that would forbid the sale of violent video games to children. But three raise free-speech concerns.
Brazil´s president-elect, Dilma Rousseff, has promised that her incoming government will guarantee freedom of expression.
Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla turned button-down technocrat with expertise in everything from energy to high finance, comfortably won Brazil´s presidency Sunday in a contest that demonstrated voter loyalty to the man who handpicked her for the job, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
An Iranian woman whose sentence of execution by stoning for adultery provoked a worldwide outcry will instead be hanged for murder on Wednesday, a human rights group said.
Republicans, tapping into widespread anger over the ailing economy and disappointment with President Obama´s leadership, wrested control of the House of Representatives from Democrats in Tuesday´s midterm elections, but fell just short of winning the Senate.
California would have become the first state to allow marijuana to be sold for recreational use. Moderate voters opposed it.
A new report shows that Latinos are arrested for misdemeanor marijuana possession at higher rates than whites in California´s cities.
The parents of teenage pop star Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife Tish, have filed for divorce after 17 years of marriage.
A karate instructor used the promise of riches to lure a group of armed men dressed as ninjas to rob and kill a wealthy Florida couple, while their nine special-needs children cowered or slept nearby, a court has been told.
The Black Eyed Peas have been slapped with two separate copyright infringement lawsuits by musicians who claim the group stole material for hit songs I Gotta Feeling and Boom Boom Pow.
Young people may still make a difference.
Bridget Rose Masters celebrates her 21st birthday next week and she could not have got a better present than today´s acquittal on an assault charge in a case dubbed the "Battle of the Blondes".
Trying to understand what is new in the Kremlin´s latest version of its 176-page bill to reform the police force could take considerable time.
As the sentencing guidelines for child pornography crimes have grown increasingly harsh, a strong trend has developed among federal judges to reject the proposed prison terms as draconian.
An appellate attorney in Oakland, Calif., has filed a brief before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that California´s same-sex marriage ban should be found invalid because the state´s entire ballot initiative process was improperly voted into law 99 years ago.
A federal judge blocked yesterday a new state Internet obscenity law meant to shield children from sexually explicit material, ruling that the statute was written so broadly that it would criminalize legitimate websites and general electronic communication.
Suit named 19 defendants, including all of the major cell phone manufacturers and providers, as well as two trade associations.
The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that it had ended its investigation of Google´s collection of Internet users´ personal communications by the company´s Street View cars.
We inadvertently left off perhaps the worst offender on this list: former Gray Plant Mooty antitrust cochair Aaron Biber, who was sentenced last week to 18 years in prison for raping a 15-year-old boy, according to Above the Law and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Biber was in line to become president of the Minnesota State Bar Association next July.
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