A bill in Tennessee that will allow mental health counselors to turn away patients based on the counselors' religious beliefs passed on Monday. In February the Senate passed the bill that allowed counselors to...

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Monday threw out a constitutional challenge to Utah's anti-bigamy laws . The lawsuit was brought in 2011 by the family from TLC's reality TV show...

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe on Sunday offered amendments to an alternative execution bill (HB 815) that would have required the use of the electric chair if lethal injections are unavailable. McAuliffe scrapped the bill's provision [AP...

Former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative Sabrina de Sousa filed an appeal in Portugal's Constitutional Court Monday in a last attempt to prevent her extradition to Italy to serve a six-year sentence for her...

A Taiwan-born US Navy officer has been charged with espionage, attempted espionage and prostitution, media outlets reported Sunday. Investigators believe Navy Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin has been passing secrets to the Chinese government. Lin was an...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday overturned a district court decision that allowed Google to ignore a subpoena. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood began investigating Google in 2012 for...

Lawyers for several public school teachers in California requested on Friday that the US Supreme Court rehear the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association after a ninth justice is appointed. Last month, an equally...

Wisconsin trial judge William Foust on Friday struck down a Wisconsin law that would bar unions from reaching agreements to force private-sector workers to pay the equivalent of union dues. Signed into law last year,...

Congress introduced a new bill on Friday which will force smartphone manufacturers to decrypt data in response to law enforcement demands. The bill was proposed by senators Diane Feinstein and Richard Burr, and states that companies "must...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood of Indiana filed suit against the state of Indiana on Thursday, challenging the constitutionality of a recently-signed abortion law that would prevent abortions sought due...