Cheerleader outfits can be protected by copyright, the US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a verdict criticized by some as curbing creative freedom in the world of fashion and costumes. The vote...
A Luxembourg court on Wednesday denied a demand by Tehran to repatriate $1.6 billion of Iranian assets claimed by the US as compensation for the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The judge...
David Rockefeller, a former head of Chase Manhattan bank and luminary in political and philanthropic circles, died Monday at the age of 101, a spokesman said. He died in his sleep due to congestive...
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal from one of eight inmates facing execution next month, as the state rushes to move forward before the expiration date of one of the drugs...
On a Tuesday morning last month, Steve Meadows, a 66-year-old architect, actor, inventor and dabbler in art, left his home in Venice, California, with a cargo boasting an extraordinary history....
A federal judge in Hawaii has put President Donald Trump's revised travel ban on hold, issuing an emergency halt to the order just hours before it was set to go into effect. The ruling by US District...
The US state of Arkansas is racing to execute eight death row inmates in 10 days next month to beat the expiration date on a hard-to-get drug used in lethal injections. Death penalty opponents have...
Iran said Tuesday it was "completely unfair" for US lawyers to try to seize its overseas assets as compensation for the victims of September 11, 2001. In 2012, a New York judge ordered Iran to pay $7...
The US Supreme Court on Monday sent a key transgender rights case back to a lower court for reconsideration, after the administration of President Donald Trump withdrew guidance to schools that was...
Former deputy Attorney-General Dominic Ayine has expressed concern the Special Prosecutor's office to be created by government will go witch-hunting appointees of the former NDC government. The...
The US Supreme Court on Monday took up a case involving a North Carolina law that bars registered sex offenders from accessing social media and raises a broader question: can one live without the...
A former deputy Interior minister has urged President Akufo-Addo to tread cautiously in creating an office of Independent Prosecutor because it can become an uncontrollable monster. James Agalga,...
Activists, parents and transgender students Thursday vowed to resist the Trump administration's "dangerous" reversal of federal protections on bathroom rights, warning it risked exposing children to...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked the death sentence against an African American man who challenged it as biased, after a psychologist testified he was more dangerous because of his race....
US states that implemented same-sex marriage legislation prior to its legalization at the federal level saw a drop in suicide attempt rates among high school students, new research shows. States that...
The US Supreme Court appeared divided Tuesday as it weighed a thorny cross-border case involving the death of a young boy shot on Mexican soil by an American border patrol agent standing on the US...
Guadalupe Guereca wants just one thing: "Justice." In a choked voice, the 59-year-old woman recounts the death of her teenage son, fatally shot on Mexican soil by an American policeman standing on...
Norma McCorvey, whose test case made abortions legal in the United States, has died aged 69. She was represented under a pseudonym in the Roe v Wade case, in what ended up being a landmark and...
A proposal which would force women to get permission from their sexual partner to allow them to have an abortion has passed the first hurdle in Oklahoma. The bill would mean women needed written...
Since his mannerisms make him out as country or – as we say in Africa – a villager, his case may be more of naivety rather than good acting. If that is true, then the problem is his gullibility...
