The United Nations warned Friday that the worst may be yet to come if the violence engulfing the eastern Democratic Republic ...

A proposal to give prosecutors the option of seeking the death penalty in child rape cases cleared a state House committee in ...

The chief magistrate judges in Haralson and Heard counties resigned this week under investigation of alleged misconduct. They'd just won reelection to four-year terms.

Now the world's richest man has brought the same slash-and-burn strategy to the federal government, and some people who ...

Courtroom cameras recorded the melee, which subsided as a law enforcement officer drew a stun gun and protected the defendant ...

A three-member panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously on Jan. 30 in the case of Reese v. ATF that the ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over ...

A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who was sentenced to death in 2009.

Illinois’ controversial Interchange Fee Prohibition Act has taken another turn in court. The law prohibits a credit card ...

Courts and Congress are struggling to keep up with the break-neck pace as the Trump administration dramatically reshapes the American government, national politics and international order. The ...

A judge temporarily stopped the Trump administration from putting over 2,000 staff at the U.S. Agency for International ...