Warren Hill, who is mentally disabled according to the state's courts, will be executed via lethal injection on Wednesday, unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes.
Black women account for only 13 percent of the U.S. female population, but undergo more than one-third of all abortions.
The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives, on a near party-line vote of 244-185, passed a bill on Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama's overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has said that he will respect a court ruling that overturned his attempt to reinstate the lower house of Parliament, which had been dissolved by the Military Council last month prior to the Islamist leader's election victory.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel proposed on Tuesday a measure that would prohibit police officers from turning undocumented immigrants over to federal authorities if the immigrants had not committed crimes.
A Texas voter identification law currently being argued in court could rob minorities of their right to vote, Attorney General Eric Holder told the National Associated for the Advancement of Colored People on Tuesday.
The latest Washington Post/ABC News Poll finds that Obama and Romney are neck-and-neck, tied at 47 percent among registered voters. Neither man has been able to open a significant gap over his rival.
Texas Governor Rick Perry has rejected two prominent elements of President Obama's health care overhaul, joining an exodus of Republican-led states that are using a Supreme Court decision upholding the law to opt out of some key features.
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ordered Parliament to reconvene Sunday, in defiance of the military and a court that dissolved it.
John Boehner, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, told voters this week that in the November presidential election they will casting their ballots not for or against Republican Mitt Romney, but for or against Democrat Barack Obama.
Scott Peterson filed his automatic appeal of his 2004 death sentence to the California Supreme Court, maintaining that he had nothing to do with the murder of his wife Laci Peterson and his unborn son.
Posner said he has become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.
The same president who set the record for campaign fundraising record in 2008 has been beat two months in a row and recently expressed concern to his contributors.
Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend who amassed several championships during his career, is the recipient of 2012 Liberty Medal.
In an unexpected about-face on Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the individual mandate fee under Obama's healthcare plan a tax, rather than a penalty.
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The Republican benign-neglect approach to health care reform during the past decade was an unwitting contributor to the situation we find ourselves in today.
The Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Obama's expansive health care overhaul has increased public support for the law, which nonetheless remained largely unpopular.
Florida has become the third state to reject the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, taking advantage of a Supreme Court ruling dictating that states cannot be forced to expand the health insurance program's reach.
When CBS News broke the story that U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts had first decided to vote with his fellow Supreme Court conservatives on so-called Obamacare and then changed his mind, it led to huge questions, not only about him but also about his motivations.
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts was originally set to vote with the Supreme Court's conservative justices to strike down the Affordable Care Act, CBS News reported. However, he changed his mind about a month ago to join the court's liberal justices in mostly upholding the constitutionality of the law.
One hundred years after former President Teddy Roosevelt first proposed it, the United States -- the richest nation on earth -- has finally joined the world?s other, major, industrialized economies in having a universal health insurance plan.
