Levi Aron, the man charged with the kidnapping and murder of an eight-year-old boy from Brooklyn, and his attorneys are now saying that a previously offered confession from Aron was the outcome of coercion by the police.
Four Blackwater Worldwide guards asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a lower court ruling that dismissed their indictment due to tainted evidence.
The recent bankruptcy of solar energy company Solyndra raises questions regarding its relationship with the U.S. Department of Energy, which allegedly modified a loan agreement to prevent the tettering company from going under. The incident casts a shadow over the solar energy industry, already a controversial field.
Arizona had claimed that the U.S. abdicated its responsibility in enforcing immigration laws.
The California Board of Parole has denied offering a compassionate release to infamous Onion Field killer Gregory Powell during a Tuesday meeting. Powell, who is now serving a life sentence, was convicted of killing a cop named Ian Campbell around 48 years ago.
Princeton University Prof. Cornel West was arrested Friday, the second time this week, at an Occupy Wall Street rally in Harlem protesting outside a police precinct against the NYPD's stop and frisk policy.
Mongolia's Supreme Court has ordered the government to enforce a ban on mining in river and forest areas following an appeal submitted by activists who said the country's fragile environment was threatened by reckless mining.
Liquidnet Inc, a U.S. venue where institutions anonymously trade public stocks, was sued by Wedbush Securities Inc for allegedly stealing trade secrets to start a rival business trading shares of private companies.
Supporters of businessman Herman Cain launched a so-called super PAC that will allow corporations to donate unlimited sums of money that can be used to boost a candidate or attack a rival.
The U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately decide if victims and their families can sue corporations or political organizations in America for human rights abuses in other countries.
Gilad Shalit was released on Tuesday, after being held captive for five years by Palestinian political group Hamas. After years of protests, failed compromises and international outrage, the Israeli solder was finally reunited with his family.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's legal adviser and failed U.S. Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork says he still believes that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment should not apply to women.
Since President Barack Obama signed the U.S. Affordable Care Act in 2010, only a dozen states have created the legal authority for a health insurance exchange to comply with the law, while five have passed legislation to produce feasibility studies.
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was released to a national outpouring of joy Tuesday after five years in captivity, exchanged for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in a deal with Gaza's Hamas rulers.
Israel and Hamas on Tuesday morning started exchange of prisoners. Hamas handed over Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who has been held since June 2006, to Egypt in exchange of Palestinian prisoners.
A long-awaited prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas began before dawn Tuesday when the first of hundreds of Palestinian inmates were bused from their jails to border crossings where they will be swapped for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
The U.S. Supreme Court justices will decide the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act, which criminalizes false public comments about receiving military awards.
Consolidated Edison is seeking $1.7 million in back rent from the developer of the Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero, the latest setback for the controversial project, known as Park51.
The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether a federal law making it a crime to lie about being awarded a military medal or decoration violated free-speech rights.
Herman Cain, a former pizza chain CEO, touted U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a model for his own appointees.
The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether companies can be liable in this country for international human rights law violations, a case involving allegations that Royal Dutch Shell Plc helped Nigeria violently suppress oil exploration protests in the 1990s.
Before his arrest at an Occupy Wall Street-style protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, Cornel West said Martin Luther King Jr. would be protesting alongside the group.
