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Dorda plead not-guilty to charges of mobilizing security forces to fire bullets at the heads and chests of civilians and preventing, through the use of force and intimidation, the staging of peaceful protests.

A federal appeals court has declined to reconsider striking down California's prohibition on same-sex marriage, increasing the likelihood that the issue will reach the Supreme Court.

South Sudanese President Silva Kiir is pleading with 75 government officials to return $4 billion in stolen public money.

Peru's Supreme Court has approved the United States extradition request for Joran van der Sloot, the man suspected in Natalee Holloway's disappearance,. but the Dutchman must first serve out his 28-year prison sentence, according to the Associated Press.

Nebraska landowners challenging the constitutionality of state laws dealing with the Keystone XL Pipeline will have to pin their hopes on Nebraska's lower district court, as its Supreme Court decided it will not hear their case.

The president is reportedly telling donors that he may need to revisit the health-care law in a second term.

Scientists have finished sequencing the genomes of the domestic tomato and one of its wild relatives, paving the way for more precise breeding in tomatoes and other plants.

Sex ed is apparently taken very seriously at Brooklyn's James Madison High School, aka Horndog High, which is embroiled in yet another sex scandal, as allegations emerge that married English teacher Erin Sayar allegedly had a month-long sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student.

Only the Supreme Court can finally decide this unique case, wrote First Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Michael Boudin.

The American Civil Liberties Union and LGBT group Lambda Legal will file lawsuits to challenge Illinois' same-sex marriage ban.

The U.S. Supreme Court let an appeals court ruling stand that said police used excessive force when tasering two women, though the officers had immunity from lawsuits.

An atheist and agnostic group in North Dakota won the right to sue over a decades-old Ten Commandments display in Fargo.

Hustler's publisher, Larry Flynt, offered a second response in regard to a lewd photo of conservative commentator S.E. Cupp published in his raunchy men's magazine. But Flynt's defense of that's satire did not sit well with the ladies of The View, who took offense to the misogynistic and graphic digitally-altered photo.

Gore-Tex Heiress, Susan Gore, has been denied the right to adopt her 65-year-old ex-husband as a means to boost her family's inheritance fortune.

Mitt Romney continues to trail far behind President Obama among Latino voters, imperiling his prospects in a handful of swing states.

The national debate on the Keystone XL pipeline enters the courtroom, as Nebraska landowners sue their state over how the pipeline project could be approved.

As the 1965 Voting Rights Act comes under fire from Republican lawmakers and conservative justices on the Supreme Court, Holder explains why it's still needed to fight inequality at the polls.

A record-low 41 percent of Americans identify themselves as pro-choice when it comes to abortion rights, according to Gallup.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case on whether attorneys, journalists and human rights groups have standing to challenge the government's expanded power to spy on international communications.

Led by New York's Eric Schneiderman, a group of 23 Democratic and Republican attorneys general asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to uphold Montana's ban on direct corporate spending in local campaigns.

Graduation speeches don't always have to be a bore. Here are seven graduation addresses delivered to the Class of 2012 that imparted nuggets of wisdom. Others just plain made us laugh and some mixed both sound advice with comedic moments.