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Los Angeles Dodgers will be allowed to continue to use its lawyers to represent it in its bankruptcy petition, a day after the Major League Baseball withdrew a motion to disqualify the team's lawyers.

Michael Jackson's mother broke down in tears when she was told that her pop star son had died, and the singer's daughter Paris said she did not want to be an orphan, a Los Angeles court heard on Tuesday.

Prosecutors on Tuesday showed a shocking autopsy photograph of Michael Jackson in court as the involuntary manslaughter trial against his personal doctor Conrad Murray continues.

The oil spill in New Zealand has now become the nation's worst maritime environmental disaster -- and things are getting worse instead of better.

The Unites States and the European Union has said the trial for former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was politically motivated and has condemned the seven-year jail sentence.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a case from a gay couple who tried to get listed as the fathers of their adopted son on his Louisiana birth certificate.

The two men as Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old U.S. citizen with dual Iranian and U.S. passports, and Gholam Shakuri, reportedly a member of the Quds Force.

The head of the worldwide Anglican Church met Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Monday to hand him a dossier of abuses against the church and its priests in Zimbabwe and demand an end to a campaign of persecution.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, which challenged a ruling that gave convicted cop killer and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal a new sentencing hearing.

The city council in Topeka, Kansas is scheduled to vote Tuesday night on a proposal to repeal the part of the city code that bans domestic battery.

Three years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers touched off a tidal wave of bankruptcy filings, corporate failures may be about to pick up again, with some big-name companies among those struggling for survival.

Liberty University, a Christian college Jerry Falwell founded, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up its challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

The U.S. government has asked Google and Sonic to give up any WikiLeaks-related information and data, following with an order for them to turn over Appelbaum's e-mail contact list -- without a warrant.

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison by a judge in Kiev on Tuesday.

A Ukrainian court Tuesday sentenced former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in relation to a 2009 gas deal with Russia.

Three years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers touched off a tidal wave of bankruptcy filings, corporate failures may be about to pick up again, with some big-name companies among those struggling for survival.

A Milwaukee woman was arrested for killing a mother and baby on Monday after cutting pregnant mother’s full-term fetus from her womb with an Exacto knife in an attempt to steal the unborn baby.

American student Amanda Knox, cleared last week of the 2007 murder of her roommate, British exchange student Meredith Kercher, is finally getting back on track. Knox, 24, who is back in Seattle, Wash. ventured out for a shopping trip to grab a bar of chocolate and toothpaste, probably for the first time in four years, putting the four years of Italian prison ordeal behind her. Knox's first attempt to get over her secluded existence comes along with new details of sexual harassment she was sub...

Hana Financial Group is willing to renegotiate its agreed $4.1 billion deal to buy Korea Exchange Bank from Lone Star , should the U.S. fund decide not to appeal a court verdict against it, Hana's chairman said on Tuesday.

A former Miss Iceland who met Boston crime boss James Whitey Bulger and his girl friend in California was paid a $2 million reward for the tip that led to Bulger's arrest in June, the Boston Globe said on Sunday.

Only in the bitter partisanship of our moment could Texas Governor Rick Perry be denounced because he expressed compassion. In the most recent Republican presidential debate, Perry was hammered for supporting a Texas law that allows illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition discounts at public universities. Now he has apologized for saying those who oppose helping illegals attend college “have no heart.”