NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawsuit challenging patents on two human genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer can move forward, a ...
Indiana school sued for punishing teens over racy summer photos posted on MySpace Two sophomore girls have sued their school district after they ...
A federal court upheld Friday the US government's decision to censor statements made by Guantanamo Bay detainees about their treatment at Central Intelligence Agency-run prisons. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a human rights group, had argued that the government should declassify ...
Lesbian student in Mississippi fights to get photo of her in tuxedo in high school yearbook Everyone at Wesson Attendance Center knows 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis is gay because she's never tried to hide it. But when Sturgis — an honor student, trumpet ...
Congress could thwart effort to make public new detainee abuse photos Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a move intended to end a legal fight over ...
AP Enterprise: Police across the US stop and question more than 1 million people each year A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different route back home to ...
A white cross erected in the California desert to honor soldiers killed in World War I plunged the US Supreme Court Wednesday into a complex debate on the separation of church and state. Critics charge that the cross, erected 75 years ago, ...
US Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged Tuesday it will be "difficult" to close Guantanamo Bay before President Barack Obama's January 2010 deadline, amid a litany of legal and political challenges. "It's going to be difficult for us to make the January 22 ...
Supreme Court declines to review constitutionality of Fla. Pledge of Allegiance law The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal to review a Florida law that requires public school students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance each day unless they have their parents' ...
Immigrant deaths near US-Mexico border in 2009 expected to surpass previous year's total The number of immigrants who died while sneaking across America's southern border in the last 12 months is expected to surpass the previous year's total, even as fewer people ...
Experts doubt NJ court ruling on polling place buffer zones will withstand challenge A court decision that bars exit polling within 100 feet of New Jersey polling places is unlikely to stand because federal courts around the country have consistently rejected such ...
Obama begins makeover of nation's most conservative appeals court, venue for many terror cases President Barack Obama has begun reshaping the nation's most conservative federal appeals court, one that has handled many high-profile terrorism and detainee cases and generally supported the anti-terrorism ...
