SUPREME COURT

In his second run for Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney's campaign team has been witnessing a favorable trend among the female voters in the recent independent polls, which clearly wasn't the case in the 2008 campaign.

Overcoming a constitutional limit on re-election, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega appears to be headed for a mandate to remain in office.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist rebel leader and Cold War enemy of the United States, marched toward a landslide re-election victory Monday morning after drawing broad support for his anti-poverty programs.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla leader, took a big early lead in Sunday's presidential election after heavy social spending won him strong support among the country's poor.

The allegations of sexual harassment against Herman Cain, the Republican presidential frontrunner, have taken a 'racist' turn all of a sudden. It doesn't seem to matter that conservatives have always denied any forms of institutional racism to have any influence today.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney says that the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling was a correct decision.

The Supreme Court of Canada blocked on Thursday the extradition to the United States of Abdullah Khadr, a Canadian wanted by Washington on terrorist charges

The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to Ramalinga Raju, founder and former chairman of outsourcing firm Satyam Computer Services Ltd, in a $1.5 billion financial fraud case.

Japan's Olympus Corp said it will not announce its quarterly earnings on Nov. 8 as expected because it needs more time after appointing an external panel to look into past acquisitions, sparking a fresh plunge in the firm's shares.

Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner will be executed as planned on Nov. 9, as a judge has denied his request for testing DNA evidence that his attorneys have said could prove that Skinner is innocent.

On Monday, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told multiple news outlets that while he is pro-life, he is concerned the state's proposed personhood amendment could have negative impacts on women's health. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Personhood USA implied the measure could go as far as prohibiting birth control pills.

A New Hampshire man convicted of breaking into a car argued that unreliable eyewitness evidence should have been blocked from his trial, even without police interference.

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out a federal agency's decision to fine CBS Corp television stations $550,000 for airing singer Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 Super Bowl broadcast.

A constitutional amendment proposed in both the U.S. House and Senate would aim to clean up the nation's campaign finance system and overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC.

The U.S. Department of Justice has been filing lawsuits against states that have passed anti-immigration laws.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday that Herman Cain shouldn't play the race card in responding to the allegations that he sexually harassed two female employees when he was CEO of the National Restaurant Association.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose activities have angered the U.S. government, should be sent to Sweden from Britain to face questioning over alleged sex crimes, the High Court ruled on Wednesday, rejecting his appeal against extradition.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange lost his extradition bid at the High Court in London. Assange will be extradited from the UK to Sweden to face charges in a sex case.

The justices pressed a lawyer for inmate Richard Lee Pollard about why his case was filed in federal court instead of state court.

Selebi remains free on bail. If, however, his two-day appeal fails, he will have to go to jail.

The Supreme Court scolded a lower federal appeals court for vacating a jury verdict against a woman convicted of violently shaking her grandson to death.