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The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday grilled attorneys about the federal government's power to pull Medicaid funds from states that refuse to accept new enrollees who will be eligible under the health care law.

The judge in charge of overseeing the trial of an off-duty police officer accused of raping a Manhattan teacher has declared a mistrial Wednesday as the jurors continued to disagree over two counts of rape charges.

The five-year court battle regarding legendary New York City philanthropist Brooke Astor's will has finally reached a settlement, according to her grandson, Philip Marshall. The settlement, which is to be filed Wednesday in Westchester County Surrogate Court, sets aside $100 million for charities. The recipients of the donations include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, New York City public schools, Carnegie Hall, Rockefeller University and a number of other importa...

On Wednesday, most of the justices seemed skeptical of the argument that the Affordable Care Act couldn't survive without its insurance-purchase mandate. Conservatives, however, leaned toward invalidating the entire law.

Answering critics who portrayed his audiotaped performance as bumbling, the administration called Donald Verrilli an extraordinarily talented advocate in whom it has every confidence to advocate for the health care overhaul.

At issue in Wednesday's morning session was whether the Affordable Care Act should be scrapped altogether if the court determines that the law's requirement that Americans get medical insurance violates the Constitution.

Now that Apple is allowing Australian customers to refund their iPads, other countries want to know if their customers should deserve refunds too. The UK, Sweden and Denmark are now all investigating the compatibility of the new iPad 3 with local 4G LTE networks.

On the third and final day of oral arguments over the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court justices are expected to ask whether the 2010 law could survive the abolition of its requirement that Americans get health insurance.

The justices pondered what else Congress could require Americans to buy if the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate is upheld as constitutional.

After a rough day at the U.S. Supreme Court for the Obama administration on Tuesday, the fate of the individual insurance mandate may rest in the hands of Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Skepticism seemed to inform numerous pointed comments from three of the court's four staunch conservatives as the justices spent a second day hearing a challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

Oslo courts have convicted Mullah Krekar, an Iraqi-born Islamist cleric, to five years in prison for posting online death threats against Kurdish immigrants and Norwegian officials.

Al Jazeera decided not to broadcast Mohammed Merah's video of the Toulouse massacre.

New details about Trayvon Martin's record as well as his personal interactions on Facebook and Twitter have emerged recently, as George Zimmerman supporters defend his Stand Your Ground right.

Two hours have been set aside at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday for lawyers to argue the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's requirement that Americans get health insurance.

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The justices Monday heard debate as to whether Americans can challenge the Affordable Care Act's insurance-purchase requirement even though that part of the law isn't scheduled to take effect until 2014.

A Japanese man has asked Google to suspend its autocomplete feature on the basis that the function is an invasion of his privacy and cost him his job.

The Supreme Court will begin a three-day review of the Affordable Care Act, known to some as either the health care reform or Obamacare, on Monday, which will go down in history as a landmark case, perhaps the most monumental in more than a decade. Justices will decide whether the mandate, which would require all Americans to buy health care, for the 2010 Affordable Care Act is constitutional or not. Here are 10 things to know about the landmark Affordable Care Act case.

Jenna Talackova, a transsexual contestant, was booted from the 2012 Miss Canada Universe competition. Miss Canada Universe confirmed on Friday, that the 23 year old from Vancouver, British Columbia, was disqualified after it was discovered that she was born a boy.

The United States has given $860,000 to the families of victims of the massacre in Kandahar province that is being blamed on U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, two Afghan officials said Sunday.