Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff used her line-item veto powers on a congressional bill that weakened the nation's benchmark environmental law protecting the Amazon ...

The widow of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy is set to give a commencement speech, but she'll be addressing a different group of Catholic graduates than originally planned ...

Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has said that she was unaware that Harvard Law School had been promoting her purported Native American heritage until she read about it in a newspaper several weeks ...

A judge in California has ruled that the federal law that prohibits recognition of same-sex unions is unconstitutional because it denies long-term health insurance benefits to legal spouses of state ...

Quebec student groups are leading a legal challenge against the province's controversial protest law, saying it is unconstitutional ...

Address by Mario Draghi, President of the ECB
at the day in memory of Federico Caffè
organised by the Faculty of Economics and the Department of Economics and Law at the Sapienza University
Rome ...

A new law comes into force this weekend requiring all websites to ask permission from users before using 'cookies' - data files that remember computer logins, email addresses and previous internet ...