A federal judge on Friday ordered a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor accused of stealing classified government documents to remain in custody while awaiting trial. The judge said of the former NSA agent, Harold Martin...

U.S. District Judge J. Clay Fuller on Thursday ruled that the state of Georgia does not have to reveal information about its one-drug execution method. In a suit brought by two death row inmates challenging...

A Mexican judge on Thursday rejected five appeals intended to prevent the extradition of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán to the US for criminal charges. A previous judge had suspended Guzmán's extradition in May, but the...

Judge Daniel P. Jordan III of the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (Northern Division) on Thursday permanently enjoined the state of Mississippi from "enforcing, threatening to enforce, or otherwise applying the provisions...

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a conspiracy conviction of the former personal assistant to Osama bin Laden. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that a military...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied an emergency motion on Wednesday from multiple counties in North Carolina to extend the hours of early voting. The motion ...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered voter registration in Virginia to be reopened through midnight Friday, October 21. US District Judge Claude Hilton for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia made this...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ruled Wednesday that Ohio must allow most unlawfully purged voters to vote in November. In September the US Court of Appeals for the...

A court in Iran on Tuesday sentenced two US citizens to 10 years in prison following convictions on charges that they spied and "cooperated" with the US. Siamak Namazi, a businessman, and his elderly father, Baquer Namazi, both have...

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Obama administration's request to narrow an injunction banning the enforcement of an Education Department policy requiring public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that...