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Zimmerman, who is facing second-degree murder charges in the death of Trayvon Martin, had his bail revoked after prosecutors accused him of conspiring with his wife to lie about $200,000 they collected from a website toward his legal defense.

In a double blow to Florida's controversial push to prevent election fraud, a federal judge blocked the state's new voting law and the Justice Department ordered the state to halt a purge of noncitizens from its voter rolls.

Sex ed is apparently taken very seriously at Brooklyn's James Madison High School, aka Horndog High, which is embroiled in yet another sex scandal, as allegations emerge that married English teacher Erin Sayar allegedly had a month-long sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student.

The legal activist gives his first public speaking engagement in America after leaving from China.

Thousands of Ecuadoreans this week are trying to force Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil and gas company, into complying with a verdict and paying billions in environmental fines resulting from a decade-long pollution case.

The rise of private space companies and foreign space programs, combined with an interest in lunar mining, is likely to bring the issue of extraterrestrial property rights into focus in the next few decades.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon actress Zhang Ziyi, who is the center of a prostitution scandal involving high-profile Chinese men including Bo Xilai for millions of dollars, denied the allegations smeared in Chinese media, adding she will sue for the false claims.

Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, fell again Wednesday, giving back their early gains from Tuesday?s record-low close of $28.84.

The notable and flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman has been sentenced in Southern California to 104 hours of community service and three years of informal probation after he was convicted of contempt for failing to pay the proper amount owed in child support.

The Tennessee lawyer who took 42 percent of the vote away from President Barack Obama in the Arkansas Democratic primary is back, hoping to pick up momentum in Texas on Tuesday.

Memorial Day Weekend was not the love-fest Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez might have had planned. E! News reported that the teenybopper couple would reunite, after their busy schedules had kept them apart for some time, over the holiday weekend. But an incident at a Calabasas mall proved to be a dark cloud over the reunion.

It?s a showdown between the government and the private owners of Domodedovo Airport, with the former trying by many accounts to pry control of Russia's most lucrative airport away from the shadowy company that runs it.

New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli renewed his call on Friday that Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX), the second-largest oil company in the U.S., settle its legal battle against a multibillion-dollar judgment in Ecuador, to avoid further damaging its reputation and shareholder value.

Pedro Hernandez, the former SoHo bodega stock boy who confessed to the murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz 33 years after the boy disappeared, was taken to Bellevue Hospital and placed on suicide watch. Authorities promptly put him the hospital after he told police he no longer takes his psychiatric medication.

Pedro Hernandez has been arrested in the 1979 murder of Etan Patz, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced Thursday evening.

A Canadian law school graduate thought it would get a few laughs if he paid his $114,000 law school debt in cash. The story of Alex Kenjeev, from Montreal, first surfaced when a Reddit user reposted a photo of the $114,000 receipt Kenjeev had posted on his Facebook account on the Reddit website.

Police have arrested a man identified as Pedro Hernandez in connection with the 1979 disappearance and murder of Etan Patz..

On Tuesday, Cuba?s official Communist Party newspaper Granma finally gave an official estimate of the number of people currently incarcerated in the nation?s jails.

The national debate on the Keystone XL pipeline enters the courtroom, as Nebraska landowners sue their state over how the pipeline project could be approved.

Kim Dotcom Schmitz, the German-born founder of Megaupload, is now looking to defend himself in court, but in order to do so, he has demanded that his hard drives and his computers -- all 135 of them -- be returned to him so he can use the data for his defense.

Thousands of university students in Montreal marked the 100th day of protests against tuition hikes Tuesday, joined by lawyers and labor unions, following the Quebec provincial government's passing of a controversial law last week designed to regulate public assemblies.