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Opposition groups in Russia published their Manifesto of Free Russia, which demands an end to Putin's 12-year rule.

The Department of Justice is planning to sue Florida for pressing ahead with a sweeping effort to strike noncitizens from the voting rolls.

Founder of The Oatmeal, Matthew Inman, is responding to controversy with charity. After being threatened with a lawsuit and damage charges when he accused another website of stealing his content, Inman went ahead and started a campaign to raise money for the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society instead.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Monday he will sue the federal government to gain access to a federal immigration database.

Tom and Ray Magliozzi, better known as Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers of Car Talk fame, are calling it quits on their popular NPR radio show, the duo announced Friday.

In Cook County, there are now four pending lawsuits filed by employees of a suburban Chicago Heights bakery who claims that they were deprived of chance to buy into a pool of lottery tickets that won the grand prize of $118 million.

Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin spoke out on Friday about why she chose to resign from the Miss Universe Organization after competing in the 2012 Miss USA competition. An injustice has been done, she told The TODAY Show host Ann Curry. However, Donald Trump is not taking her allegations lying down. The Miss Universe Organization co-owner plans to move ahead with a defamation lawsuit.

Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng's brother has said that local authorities destroyed evidence of abuse in his village, coinciding with reports that government surveillance, which turned the village into a prison to keep the activist under house arrest for two years, has ended.

At a time when consumers in the United States are eagerly waiting for Samsung to start shipping of its latest flagship smartphone, Galaxy S3, the South Korean conglomerate has confronted a serious hitch that could end up delaying the availability of the device in the country.

The government may not invoke the bitterly debated National Defense Authorization Act to hold people in indefinite military detention on suspicion that they ?substantially supported? terrorism, a federal judge ruled.

In his opinion, a federal judge wrote the FDA's reasons for denying two citizens petitions on the issue were arbitrary and capricious.

Mexican guest workers filed Wednesday a U.S. Department of Labor complaint against CJ's Seafood, a Wal-Mart Stores supplier, alleging the company didn't pay overtime for long shifts, locked them in and made physical threats for not working fast enough.

A group of New Jersey Muslims is suing the New York Police Department over a wide-ranging Muslim surveillance initiative first diclosed by the Associated Press earlier this year.

Donald Trump says that he plans to sue Miss Pennsylvania, Sheena Monnin, who resigned from the Miss Universe Organization on Tuesday after alleging that the 2012 Miss USA contest was rigged.

Groups concerned that overuse of antibiotics in animal feed is endangering human health by creating antibiotic-resistant superbugs scored a small legal victory Monday when a federal judge told the FDA to take a second look at its decision to reject citizen petitions on the issue.

Brazil's oil regulator announced Monday it could affix a fine Chevron Corp., would have to pay for a November oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro by this summer.

Jon Corzine, the former chief of MF Global and governor of New Jersey, could be the target of a possible lawsuit linked to the brokerage's bankruptcy and disappearence of $1.6 billion in client funds.

Chinese oil company CNOOC said the localsubsidiary of U.S. oil company ConocoPhillips is cleaning up a small and contained oil spill, on the site where a much larger spill occurred last year.

Democrats in the U.S. Senate will renew next week their push for equal-pay legislation with the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill with an embattled history that would help close the wage gap between men and women that experts say costs each woman about $434,000 over the course of her career.

Activision and Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella have reached an agreement, according to Game Informer. An attorney told the gaming news publication that a settlement among all parties, which includes Activision, Jason West, Vince Zampella and the Infinity Ward Employee Group, was reached on May 31. No further details have been disclosed.

A federal judge Thursday declared a Florida election law harsh and impractical for requiring groups conducting voter registration drives to turn in registration forms within 48 hours of collecting them, and blocked enforcement of the deadline.