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Rwanda's Supreme Court dismissed the government’s arguments to throw out a case that seeks to block changing the constitution.

This is not the first time Sweden has charged a Rwandan genocide suspect. Many Rwandans fled their country and sought asylum in the Nordic country.

A South Carolina solicitor announced Thursday the state will seek the death penalty against Dylann Roof, the man accused of killing nine churchgoers in June.

“In my career as a litigator, I’ve never observed or seen a federal district court judge inject himself into these proceedings so soon after a complaint was filed,” attorney Daniel Wallach said.

Gene Palmer was charged with promoting dangerous prison contraband, destroying evidence and official misconduct in the escape of Richard Matt and David Sweat two weeks ago.

A corrections officer says he was fooled into providing tools to two inmates who escaped from a New York prison.

The man who shot President Reagan in 1981 should be released from a mental hospital, his lawyer argued in federal court Tuesday. Prosecutors said he should only be freed under tight restrictions.

Beijing deflects U.S. State Department criticism over the yearlong detention of civil rights activist Pu Zhiqiang.

Snowden, who faces criminal charges for leaking details about the NSA's mass surveillance programs, wants to return to the U.S.

An Italian court found the captain of the doomed Costa Concordia cruise ship guilty of manslaughter and sentenced him to 16 years in prison for his role in the ship’s demise.

Here's why immigration lawyer Sheela Murthy, famous in the Indian community here and abroad, doesn't think so.

International law firms are eager to move into Myanmar as major Western companies begin to invest in the country.

Lindsay Lohan was reportedly offered a house arrest deal, but the actress is considering refusing the plea bargain, meaning she could face jail time. Again.

The wayward actress makes it to her Los Angeles court date Wednesday, despite allegedly expressing being "too sick" to appear.

Facebook is refusing to release user information that could exonerate an accused murderer, citing the 1986 Stored Communications Act.

A worshipper found an envelope containing 507 checks at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and now police are trying to determine whether or not they are real.

Efforts by Prince William and Kate Middleton's lawyers were made on Monday regarding topless photos taken of Middleton while she was on vacation when they asked a French court to stop further publication, Business Week reported.

The convicted child molester faces up to 373 years in prison.

Jeffrey K. Riffer, a lawyer for the Church of Scientology, wrote an eight-page letter to Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter hoping to stop an expose of the church from ever being published.

The former CEO of French oil corporation Elf Aquitaine, Loik Le Floch-Prigent, has been extradited from the Ivory Coast to Togo on charges relating to a $48 million fraud scheme. The funds in question were contained in a Togolese bank account belonging to the former military ruler of the Ivory Coast, Robert Guei, who was killed in 2002. Le Floch-Prigent had previously been convicted in France for embezzlement of hundres of millions of dollars in public funds during his time as head of Elf.

Usher sat down with Oprah at his home in Atlanta for the first candid interview since he filed for divorce in 2009 with his ex-wife Tameka Foster, and his revelations were shocking