SUPREME COURT

It was an ordinary blue felt pen, and not a bullet, that killed Mohamed Nasheed's term as the first democratically elected president of the Maldives.

On Thursday night, comedian Bill Maher publicly announced his intention to donate $1 million to the super PAC supporting the reelection of President Barack Obama.

President Barack Obama may have tweaked a policy that will let religiously-affiliated employers avoid offering insurance plans that cover birth control, but seven Republican state attorneys general are fighting the proposed rule on First Amendment grounds.

Comedian and political commentator Bill Maher publicly donated $1 million dollars to a super PAC supporting President Obama's re-election Thursday during a live web broadcast of his comedy special, CrazyStupidPolitics: Live from Silicon Valley.

California law enforcement officers can continue collecting DNA samples from adults arrested for felonies, a federal appeals court ruled.

Religious organizations, particularly the Catholic Church, argue universal healthcare access is a fundamental human right.

Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York invited Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to testify in Washington on her state's tough immigration law, SB1070.

International leaders and supporters of Youcef Nadarkhani are calling for the release of the Christian pastor who has been sentenced to death in Iran.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, a President George W. Bush appointee, issued the second ruling to declare the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.

The home ministry has opposed the decriminalization of gay sex at a Supreme Court hearing, television reports said on Thursday.

Iran has issued what could be the final execution order for Youcef Nadarkhani, the Christian pastor who was found guilty of renouncing Islam.

A branch of the New York State Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Town of Dryden can prohibit the gas drilling hydraulic fracturing within its borders. The decision could embolden other New York municipalities to impose similar bans, potentially upending the primacy of state law over the oil and gas industries.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear Phil Spector's appeal of his 2009 second-degree murder conviction for the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.

Trying to top Dan Savage's santorum neologism campaign, one Tumblr blogger has created a composite image of Rick Santorum out of stills from gay porn flicks.

The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday took a case that aims to end race as a factor in college admissions.

Abigail Noel Fisher, a white student rejected from the University of Texas, is taking an appeal of affirmative action policies to the nation's highest court.

Supporters of Prop 8, a same-sex marriage ban a federal appeals court said was unconstitutional, will hold off on taking its case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Two expert committees appointed by the Indian Supreme Court began documenting the wealth of the famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple complex in Thiruvananthapuram.

An Ecuadorean court Monday defied an international arbitration panel's request that the country prevent plaintiffs from collecting on billions of dollars in environmental damages from Chevron Corp.

Swedish filesharing website The Pirate Bay may soon be blocked in the UK after a London judge ruled that the site breaches copyright laws on a large scale, and that both the platform and its users illegally share copyrighted material, such as movies and music.

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Steven Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday that a case challenging a century-old Montana law prohibiting corporate political spending could lead to a new challenge to the court's controversial Citizens United ruling of 2010.