The New Jersey Legislature Tuesday passed a bill to completely ban hydraulic fracturing , or "fracking," a controversial technique used to release natural shale gas. The Senate passed the bill 33-1 and then...
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller filed a notice of appeal Tuesday challenging a preliminary injunction blocking parts of a state law denying that medicaid funds go to Planned Parenthood...
Bank of America (BOA) announced Wednesday that it has agreed to pay $8.5 billion to settle claims that it sold bad securities contributing to the housing market collapse. The securities, called first-lien residential mortgage-backed securitization,...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in two additional cases Tuesday including a case similar to one decided last week involving whether the Confrontation Clause case blocks the admissibility of lab...
A former contractor for Blackwater , now known as Xe Services , was sentenced Monday to two-and-a-half years in prison for the 2009 shooting of an unarmed Afghan civilian in Kabul. Justin Cannon was...
Uruguay President Jose Mujica is removing 80 administrative acts blocking investigations into crimes committed by the military junta that ruled between 1973-85, Secretary of the Presidency Alberto Breccia announced [press release, in...
A jury in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Monday convicted former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich on 17 of 20 counts including attempting to sell the US...
The US Supreme Court in a plurality opinion Monday reversed the New Jersey Supreme Court's grant of personal jurisdiction over a UK company in a products liability suit. Robert Nicastro alleged that...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett that an Arizona campaign finance regulation that provided publicly financed candidates with additional government subsidies, which...
A Bangladesh military court on Monday sentenced 657 border guards for their roles in a February 2009 mutiny . The verdict was unprecedented in the number of people convicted at once and brings...
