True the Vote - one of the conservative groups the IRS subjected to special scrutiny when it applied for tax-exempt status - sued the federal government on Tuesday, demanding the tax agency approve its application that has now been pending for three ...

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider the issue of prayers at government meetings -- a practice common in Congress and the states for centuries. The religious expression case from the town of Greece, N.Y., focuses on the first 10 words of the F ...

WASHINGTON - A second federal appeals court has found that President Barack Obama exceeded his power when he bypassed the Senate to install a member to the National Labor Relations Board. The ruling by the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Philade ...

PHILADELPHIA -- An abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was co ...

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case ...

CHICAGO - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she supports a woman's right to choose to have an abortion, but feels her predecessors' landmark Roe v. Wade ruling 40 years ago was too sweeping and gave abortion opponents a symbol to ta ...

SANFORD, Fla. _ Murder defendant George Zimmerman will not have a "stand your ground" hearing before his trial, after he waived that right in court Tuesday. However, the issue could still resurface at trial, his defense lawyer said during a roughly t ...

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday morning turned back Alabama's appeal of a lower court's ruling striking down a portion of the state's immigration law making it a state crime to conceal, harbor or transport undocumented aliens into the state. The appeal ...

Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell never turned away poor, desperate women from his clinic, and now he is being victimized by overreaching, racist prosecutors who've presented a case built on "hype" and "manipulation," defense attorney Jack McMahon told ...

DENVER -- A severely disabled man fired because of his after-hours medical-marijuana use has no legal recourse because the drug remains banned under federal law, a Colorado court ruled Thursday. A three-judge panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals up ...