SUPREME COURT

California's Air Resources Board (CARB) can proceed with implementation of the state's cap-and-trade program, a Supreme Court judge ruled Wednesday.

The Supreme Court opened its new term on Monday and considered whether Medicaid recipients and medical providers may sue California for cutting reimbursement rates in the healthcare program for low-income Americans.

Faced with mounting international pressure over the death sentence handed out to Christian pastor Yucef Nadarkhani, Iran has said the charges were not related to apostasy but rape, extortion and threat to national security.

Thousands of people Saturday gathered in Georgia, U.S. for the funeral of Troy Davis, who was executed on Sep. 21 for the 1989 killing of Mark Allen MacPhail, 27, an off-duty Savannah police officer.

His crime is not, as some claim, converting others to Christianity, Rezvani told Fars

In a recent Rasmussen Report, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie carried 43% to President Obama's 44% of likely voters. But what exactly are his positions on some of the pivotal issues for 2012?

Vancouver's Insite clinic, the only such safe-injection site for drug addicts in North America, can stay open, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday in a landmark defeat for the federal government.

The Obama administration Thursday condemned the conviction of Iranian pastor, Youcef Nadarkhani, who is facing execution in Tehran for refusing to convert to Islam from Christianity.

With his allegations that Planned Parenthood has misused federal funds, U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., is taking out his frustration by lobbing malicious, unsubstantiated allegations, just like an elementary school bully who's angry that he lost a game.

Youcef Naderkhani has refused to renounce his Christian faith in a case that has sparked global fury against Iran and appeals for clemency.

The fate of Christian pastor Yucef Nadarkhani hangs in the balance, with Iranian Supreme Court endorsing his death penalty on apostasy charges and giving him an ultimatum to recant his faith, failing which he will be hanged. Some Web sites have published articles that give a colorful account of his life, struggles with the Iranian establishment, the events leading up to his arrest in 2009 and the death sentence that looms over him now.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn's decision to uphold key provisions of Alabama's controversial new immigration law -- characterized by supporters and detractors alike as the toughest in the country -- could have repercussions that reverberate far beyond the Yellowhammer State.

Christian pastor Yucef Nadarkhani, who is facing execution in Iran on apostasy charges, could be put to death any time as he has refused to recant his Christian faith in court three times so far this week.

Occupy Wall Street protests are nothing new for NYPD.

The Obama administration petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to decide on the constitutionality of requiring most Americans to buy health insurance. But he also offered them an option to avoid making that decision.

The Obama administration on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to back the centerpiece of Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul -- the requirement that all Americans have health insurance.

Student Republicans at the University of California at Berkeley have stirred up the famously left-wing campus with plans for a sale of baked goods priced according to the race and gender of buyers.

Youcef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor in Iran, faces the death penalty if he refuses to convert to Islam. Nadarkhani, who was arrested in 2009, has been given three chances to repent and convert to Islam. All three times he has refused. Nadarkhani will be given his fourth and final chance to give up Christianity on Wednesday, which he again declined.

There are a few cases challenging President Barack Obama's health care reform law for the Supreme Court to take up. The consensus seems to be the high court will choose 11th Circuit Court decision.

The Obama administration declined to have an appeals court further review a decision on health care reform, which clears a path for the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the measure in June.

Georgia officials executed Troy Davis last week for a 1989 murder case that was almost entirely based on eyewitness testimony. Now, more than 20 years later, legal experts say Davis' story is another example in a debate about how reliable are eyewitnesses' testimonies, especially in death penalty cases.