An appeals court has declined to throw out money-laundering indictments against two of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's political operatives, who had claimed that state elections law used to charge them was too confusing to proceed.
A privacy advocate who challenged a Virginia law against posting Social Security numbers on the Internet won a partial victory Friday when a federal judge ruled her Internet postings are protected by the Constitution.
A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred Arizona from using a state law to prosecute an online merchant who sells shirts that list names of thousands of troops killed in Iraq.
For more than a year, Jose Luis Nazario Jr. has waited for his day in federal court to face allegations he killed unarmed detainees in Iraq -- the first time such charges have been brought under a federal law that allows the prosecution of former military service members for war crimes.
The German government on Wednesday approved a law that would allow it to block moves by foreign investors to take large stakes in German companies, if it concludes that they endanger the country's interests.
Two longtime Vermont activists have filed a complaint alleging that independent gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina is violating the state's campaign finance law.
A convicted rapist admitted to a 1998 murder and was sentenced to a long prison term Monday as another man once blamed for the crime called him a coward who ruined lives.
Peru's government declared a state of emergency Monday in remote jungle regions where Indian groups are blocking highways and oil and gas installations to protest a law that makes it easier to sell their lands.
