The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday heard oral argument in a challenge to a judge´s authority to issue a ruling that struck down modifications to firearm possession laws in the District of Columbia.
Post correspondent Jason Rezaian sentenced to prison term in Iran
Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter who has been held by the government of Iran for the past 16 months and was convicted on unspecified charges last month, has been sentenced to a prison term, the state news agency announced Sunday.
A California judge on Wednesday ordered the destruction of five embryos following a couple´s divorce.
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday that the constitution does not require the Alberta legislature to enact laws in both French and English.
Lawyers for the Obama administration on Friday asked the US Supreme Court to uphold the president´s changes to US immigration policy. Earlier this month the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a federal judge´s injunction against the president´s plan.
In the online poll of 3,387 U.S. adults, 41 percent of respondents said laws like the one in Texas are intended to make abortion clinics safer, 35 percent said such laws are designed to make it difficult or impossible for women to obtain abortions
The debt clock is ticking down at Brazil’s troubled oil giant, Petrobras. Next up: $24 billion of repayments over 24 months.
As the absolute number of poor people drops, our job gets tougher. Poverty will become more entrenched in places that are especially hard to reach. A growing share of the poorest people live in places dominated by violence and injustice.
The court said it would not review an appeals court decision that said the Freedom of Information Act did not allow New Hampshire Right to Life access to Planned Parenthood’s Manual of Medical Standards and Guidelines.
The automaker is offering a type of amnesty to some of its workers who provide information that the law firm Jones Day needs to respond to multiple inquiries into how vehicles avoided emission standards in the United States and Europe.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is a stickler for evenly distributing the workload of the Supreme Court, but he plays favorites among his eight colleagues when assigning the court’s most important decisions.
After a series of recent setbacks for Obama in court, there is a new urgency among White House officials and advocates to start enrolling immigrants before the president leaves office in January 2017.
United States District Court Judge Gail Standish took a page out of Swift´s songbook in her dismissal of R&B singer Jesse Braham´s
The fourth Republican presidential debate was, by most accounts, a bit of a snoozer. But in a good way. There was less interpersonal conflict, more substantive discussion of economic policy.
Members of the House Freedom Caucus are preparing a "Contract With America II" that would call for House votes in the first 100 days of 2016 on replacing Obamacare.
President Obama nominated Luis Felipe Restrepo to a judgeship on the federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Judge Restrepo, who already sits on the United States District Court in Philadelphia.
Over at Reason, Damon Root has a good summary of what’s at stake in Luis v. United States, a case the Supreme Court heard yesterday.
The ban, by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, would also require that common areas and administrative offices on public housing property be smoke-free.
The Spanish government is fighting in the country´s top court a motion passed in the Catalan parliament backing independence from Spain.
The postponement of European Union financial-market rules known as MiFID II isn’t “set in stone,” and can’t go ahead without the endorsement of a skeptical parliament, according to EU lawmaker Markus Ferber.
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