ATTORNEY GENERAL

On Tuesday, the bodies of 23 men and 12 women were left on a highway at rush hour. They dead bodies showed signs of torture. The murders are considered the latest casualties in the Mexico's ongoing drug war.

Mexican congressman Moises Villanueva de la Cruz was found murdered on Saturday, his body discovered lying on a highway in the coastal state of Guerrero.

Violent crime in the U.S. declined for the fourth year in a row in 2010, the FBI announced Monday, in its annual Crime in the United States reported. All four categories of violent crime decreased, despite the fact budget cutbacks resulted in fewer law enforcement staff nationally. Pproperty crimes (excluding arson) victims lost an estimated $15.7 billion in 2010.

Ugandan legislators want the speaker to call an emergency session of the house to discuss a government dispute with Britain's Heritage Oil over tax payments, an opposition MP said on Monday.

But the payment to the Dowlers may only be the beginning of News International’s expected largesse to phone hacking victims.

Thousands of people have protested against the scheduled execution of Troy Davis, a Georgia inmate who is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday.

Eleanor Mondale, the daughter of former vice president Walter Mondale, died of brain cancer on Saturday at age 51. Hers was one of two prominent deaths: Kara Kennedy, the daughter of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy and the niece of former President John F. Kennedy, died of lung cancer, also at 51.

The Supreme Court on Thursday held back the execution of Duane Buck, who was convicted in a double murder case dating back to 1995, after his attorney argued that racial considerations had plagued the trial.

The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs warned the Cherokee Nation that the U.S. government will not recognize the tribe's new principal chief if it does not reverse its decision to revoke tribal citizenship from the descendants of African American slaves.

The government of Australia announced on Thursday that it will now offer three gender options for passports, M, F, and X.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has unabashedly stood by executing more people than any governor in history, but lawyers are pleading with Perry not to add to the record by condemning a man whose sentence may have been tainted by racist testimony.

Michael Jackson's doctor, accused of killing the pop star with a powerful anesthetic, has joined a small but growing number of U.S. physicians facing criminal charges over their handling of prescription drugs.

Tapes of Jackie Kennedy show her real thoughts.

In Texas, Duane Edward Buck was sentenced to death row after a psychologist said his race made him more likely to be violent.

A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out Virginia's challenge to the constitutionality of the U.S. health care reform act signed into law by President Barack Obama last year.

A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out Virginia's challenge to the constitutionality of the U.S. health care reform act signed into law by President Barack Obama last year.

A nationwide law enforcement crackdown has charged 91 people with participating in Medicare fraud schemes involving $295 million in false billing.

Ninety-one people in eight cities arrested for Medicare fraud.

The legal battle over California's same-sex marriage ban could be bound for the U.S. Supreme Court.

A lawyer targeted by California's attorney general for allegedly defrauding homeowners has responded with multiple lawsuits against the state, according to a press release.

Judges on the California Supreme Court appeared on Tuesday to side with sponsors of California's voided Proposition 8, who are seeking the right to appeal a judge's decision to strike down the same-sex marriage ban.