A judge on Wednesday intervened in the turmoil roiling the Jackson family, appointing the son of Tito Jackson to serve as temporary guardian of Michael Jackson´s children in the absence of the family matriarch and amid a feud over the pop superstar´s estate.
Timothy Geithner claimed on Wednesday that the government had no choice during the financial crisis but to lend to banks and AIG using an interest rate, Libor, that everybody knew was flawed.
Scotland could become the first part of the UK to introduce gay marriage after the SNP government announced plans to make the change.
Warren Hill, a death row prisoner in Georgia who has been diagnosed intellectually disabled, has been granted a stay of execution 90 minutes before he was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection.
The first U.S. church official convicted of covering up sex-abuse claims against Roman Catholic priests was sentenced Tuesday to three to six years in prison by a judge who said he "enabled monsters in clerical garb ... to destroy the souls of children."
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a South Dakota law requiring doctors to advise women seeking abortions that they face an increased risk of suicide after the procedure.
C.R. Bard Inc. owes $5.5 million in damages over a vaginal-mesh implant that left a woman incontinent and in chronic pain, a California jury ruled in the first case over the devices to go to trial.
The 1st District Court of Appeal has rejected Attorney General Pam Bondi´s appeal of a lower court´s ruling that found a 2011 Florida prison privatization plan unconstitutional.
L.A. will order all 762 medical pot dispensaries to close immediately, but City Council also asks staff to draw up a measure allowing original shops to stay open.
The New Orleans Police Department and the United States Department of Justice announced a far-reaching agreement on Tuesday to overhaul the city´s scandal-ridden police force and improve safety in a city that has had little of it.
President Obama´s signature health-care initiative will cost a bit less than expected as a result of last month´s Supreme Court ruling, but the decision is also likely to leave millions more people without access to insurance, congressional budget analysts said Tuesday.
A renowned Spanish judge has been hired to lead the defence of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editors, are among seven former staff members who have been charged in connection with the phone hacking scandal.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday urged merchants to reject a pending multibillion-dollar settlement reached by Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. in lawsuits filed by retailers over credit-card processing fees.
Google Inc. appears closer to avoiding a protracted battle with European antitrust regulators after officials said Tuesday they had reached a "good understanding" with the Internet search giant during discussions to address "concerns" over its business practices.
U.S. senators Jack Reed and Charles Grassley introduced a bill to authorize the Securities and Exchange Commission to impose bigger sanctions after the agency said it didn´t have adequate tools to deter financial fraud.
A big part of Magistrate Judge Stephen W. Smith´s job in Federal District Court in Houston is to consider law enforcement requests for cellphone and e-mail records.
Jason Bohn denies killing Danielle Thomas in their Astoria, Queens, apartment.
A federal judge today in Washington said the State Department doesn´t have to publicly disclose a cache of embassy cables even though the information is purportedly in the public domain via a document release from WikiLeaks.
Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc.´s patent dispute over wireless transmission technology is "ridiculous" and might be best settled in mediation, the judge overseeing the case in Australia said.
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