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Oleg Cassini's widow, Marianne Nestor-Cassini, has slapped Conde Nast with a $10 million lawsuit alleging defamation over a September 2010 Vanity Fair piece that examined the intra-familial legal battle over the late designer's estate.

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought on Tuesday to downplay that a man employed at the firm Romney founded had created and then dissolved a company used to funnel campaign contributions to Romney.

Two campaign finance watchdogs are asking the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice to investigate a $1 million donation given to a pro-Mitt Romney PAC by a corporation that no longer exists, the groups said on Friday.

A Texas jury has begun to deliberate the punishment for polygamist Warren Jeffs, a day after he was convicted on two counts of sexual abuse of a child.

Polygamist Church Leader Warren Jeffs was convicted on Thursday of sexually assaulting two of his teenage wives.

Executives at a concrete testing company were arraigned on Thursday on charges of falsifying thousands of reports on public and private projects, including the new Yankee Stadium and an air-traffic control tower at LaGuardia Airport.

Levi Aron, the man accused of killing and dismembering a Brooklyn boy on July 11, was found competent to stand trial and pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Thursday morning. Defense lawyer Pierre Bazille said he may still pursue an insanity defense. "We believe him to have some psychiatric disorder." After all, police records indicate Aron saying "I'm famous" after his arrest.

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs' trial has concluded, and the jury is deliberating the fate of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' fate in the Texas underage sexual assault case.

Levi Aron, the man accused of killing and dismembering a Brooklyn boy Leiby Kletzky on July 11, has been found competent for trial and entered a not guilty plea at his arraignment Thursday morning.

The development comes only one month after she took over as IMF boss, succeeding Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was forced to resign in wake of his sexual assault trial in New York City.

Four Latin jazz artists are suing the organizers of the Grammy Awards, alleging the elimination of their category from next year's competition has caused them irreparable harm.

After hearing tapes of polygamous leader Warren Jeffs' allegedly training his plural wives - including a 14-year-old girl - on group sex, the prosecution is expected to rest its case on Wednesday.

Israel's supreme court ordered the evacuation of a hilltop outpost where some 250 Jewish settlers live without further delay Tuesday, upholding a petition made by Palestinians and an anti-settler group over five years ago.

Believes Jeffs' followers will have difficulty "coming to grips with the reality" of their leader's behavior

A Federal Judge on Friday ordered the release of the transcripts of the 36-year-old secret testimony that former President Nixon gave to the grand jury following the infamous Watergate scandal. The transcripts will enable historians and scholars to gauge the extent of Nixon's role in the affair - a subject of popular speculation.

Delaware carried out its 15th execution since 1992 on Friday at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna.

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FBI testimony relating to a 2008 prompted the polygamous leader to speak up

Polygamous sect leader refuses to speak at his trial

Taiwan's Supreme Court has made its final ruling in the murder case.

Polygamous leader's request to represent himself at trial has been granted