Iran agreed Saturday to release four US citizens in exchange for seven Iranians being held in the US for violating sanctions against Iran. Among the US citizens being released is Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian who has...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may use a report on menthol cigarettes. The tobacco companies argued...

Florida's Supreme Court on Friday denied a request from a death row inmate to delay his execution in light of the recent US Supreme Court ruling that Florida's capital sentencing scheme was unconstitutional...

A judge for the US District Court of the Middle District of North Carolina on Friday declined to grant a motion by the NAACP and other plaintiffs that would have kept the state...

The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in eight new cases for this term. In McDonnell v. United States , the Supreme Court is asked to decide the meaning of "official action"...

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced Friday that he plans to investigate the water contamination crisis in the city of Flint. The investigation is set to begin immediately as Flint residents are currently being forced to...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Louisiana filed a class action lawsuit on Thursday against the New Orleans Public Defenders Office and the Louisiana Public Defender Board due to...

A judge for the Superior Court of California in the County of San Francisco ruled Thursday that requiring a Catholic hospital to perform a tubal ligation sterilization would violate its religious freedom. The plaintiff, Rebecca Chamorro,...

A court in Lisbon, Portugal, ruled on Friday that a former CIA operative shall be extradited to Italy to serve a seven-year sentence for her involvement in the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan...

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit on Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against anti-abortion activists. The organization claims criminal misconduct by the activists who produced undercover videos [BBC...