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The chaos and turbulence in Pakistan can also be illustrated by the fact that the job of Prime Minister was abolished on no less than five occasions.

The issue that forced out his predecessor ? the refusal by Gilani to probe Zardari for alleged corruption ? may doom Ashraf as well, if the courts again demand he take such action.

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney both used the Supreme Court's Monday ruling on Arizona's controversial immigration law to reinforce their positions on immigration.

The biggest legal challenge to date of the controversial campaign finance law was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal law invalidates several portions of Arizona's tough immigration law but kept in place a controversial provision requiring police officers to check the status of immigrants they believe to be in the country illegally.

A new survey suggests that Republicans are convincing voters to reject Obama's reform even when they like much of what is in it, such as allowing children to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26.

The political world is eagerly awaiting not one but two Supreme Court verdicts that could reshape the political landscape for the Obama administration.

The U.S. Supreme Court will announce its health care decision on Thursday, after making three major rulings on Monday.

Money manager Ezra Merkin has agreed to pay $410 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general that accused Merkin of steering client money to Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, a person familiar with the settlement said on Sunday.

The state has been barred from using capital punishment, although the court did not specifically rule that lethal injection or the death penalty is unconstitutional.

The fate of the Obama administration's health care reform law may finally be settled this week, when the U.S. Supreme Court is widely expected to finally announce whether the politically charged law will live or die.

From immigration to same-sex marriage to education, U.S. President Barack Obama has been able to advance his agenda without Congress. Here's how.

The 62-year-old Ashraf resigned from his post as water and power minister in February 2011 under a cloud of corruption allegations, although he denied any wrongdoing on his part.

Some of the most important Republican Party stalwarts and alms-givers are gearing up for Mitt Romney's three-day retreat this weekend at Deer Valley Resort, 38 miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah.

In the latest development in Pakistan following the political mayhem triggered by an apex court order disqualifying ex-premier Yousuf Raza Gilani, the ruling Pakistan People's Party Friday named former information technology minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf as its choice for the post of prime minister.

San Antonio Spurs superstar Tony Parker is suing New York City club W.I.P. for $20 million over the infamous bottle-throwing brawl between Chris Brown and Drake that left him injured last week.

The Dating Game killer Rodney Alcala, already on death row in California for the murders of four women and a 12-year-old girl, pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder charges in New York, where he's a suspect in the killings of two women during the 1970s.

Arsalan was acused of having received 342 million Pakistani rupees ($3.6 million) from real estate magnate Malik Riaz Hussain in order to influence cases in the court.

Just what they would want to replace it with, though, is not clear.

Julian Assange, the head of Wikileaks, has fled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patrino said.

A Republican Congressman has authored a bill that would halt President Obama's push to shield thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation.