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Republican state Sen. Gerald Dial told The Birmingham News that lawmakers 'made some mistakes' when crafting the state's notoriously strict immigration law.

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas gave no indication Monday that they will heed their critics' calls and recuse themselves from the Affordable Care Act case.

Yahoo Inc, Microsoft Corp and AOL Inc have set up an advertising partnership as Google and Facebook's online ad dominance grows.

The telecommunication industry's biggest union, the Communications Workers of America, released a study Tuesday saying that up to 96,000 jobs will be created if the proposed $39 billion merger between AT&T and T-Mobile USA takes place next year.

The Occupy Wall Street movement gains much of its man-power from Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites. It comes as no surprise then that Wall Street has decided to capitalize on this social media force. The New York Stock Exchange is hosting a Social Media Day Friday, which is the first of its kind at the NYSE.

Viktor Bout was busted in a sting operation attempting to sell weapons to a Colombian rebel group, FARC.

Attorney General Eric Holder will appear before the House Judiciary Committee regarding Fast and Furious, in a hearing that will take place Dec. 8.

International Criminal Court deputy prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is one of four candidates on a shortlist to replace Luis Moreno-Ocampo as chief prosecutor of the world's top war crimes court when his term ends next year.

Political groups and lawmakers from both parties are making cases that U.S. Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas should recuse themselves from deciding the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care reform law.

Arizona had claimed that the U.S. abdicated its responsibility in enforcing immigration laws.

Apple's iPhone 4S is available on AT&T, Sprint and Verizon Wireless networks, and will soon be coming to the regional carrier C Spire for the first time.

China-born researcher Kexue Huang pleads guilty to economic espionage, stealing trade secrets during employment at Dow AgroSciences, Cargill

While Bachmann's a conception of the law as being rooted in Christian teachings may fall outside the political mainstream, it is a guiding principle at Christian law schools throughout the country

The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday filed a class action suit to block South Carolina's anti-immigration law from going into effect next year, arguing that the law is unconstitutional and will lead to the detention of Hispanics. The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing South Carolina's law, slated to go into effect Jan. 1.

At least one town in Alabama has warned undocumented immigrants that their water supply will be cut off if they cannot prove they are U.S. citizens.

The U.S. government obtained secret court orders to force Google Inc and a small Internet provider to hand over information from email accounts of a WikiLeaks volunteer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

The chairman of the House oversight committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said Sunday that he could issue subpoenas to the Obama administration as soon as this week over the botched Fast and Furious gun-walking operation.

The U.S. government obtained secret court orders to force Google and a small Internet provider to hand over information from e-mail accounts of a WikiLeaks volunteer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

U.S. Department of Justice has asked an appeals court to expedite its bid for an injunction against Alabama's immigration law.

Federal U.S. attorneys in California said that illegal dispensaries and growing operations have proliferated in the state.

As House Republicans request an investigation into whether Attorney General Eric Holder perjured himself in Congress, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is turning up the heat, insisting that Holder come forward and at least admit he knew about Fast and Furious much earlier than he said.

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to give control of Solyndra's estate to a bankruptcy trustee, citing the refusal by executives at the solar power company to answer questions about its operations.

There have long been suspicions that Chinese companies which are listed on U.S. bourses do not adhere to strict accounting standards

The U.S Justice Department has requested more information from Google regarding its $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility, Google said Wednesday.

A federal judge upheld a measure to require public schools to verify the citizenship of its students as well as another that allows police to detain suspected illegal immigrants without bond.

Jaycee Dugard has sued the federal government for not properly monitoring Phillip Garrido, the man who abducted her when she was 11 and held her for 18 years.

California's attorney general has declined a request by pharmaceutical mogul Jonah Shacknai for a review of the police investigation that ruled the bizarre hanging death of his girlfriend a suicide.

Kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard on Thursday sued the federal government and accused it of failing to monitor the felon who grabbed her off a Northern California street as a child and held her for 18 years.

Reporters with Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid repeatedly hacked into the voice mail of a minister in the former Labor government, sources close to the matter say.