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A study analyzing the first three years of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative predicts the program will add more than $1.6 billion in economic value to the 10 participating states while encouraging the development of clean energy sources.

The “Lady Marmalade” R&B diva Patti LaBelle has been accused of hurling curses and throwing water at a toddler, according to a lawsuit filed at Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday.

The number of honor killings in India is unknown since many of these deaths are masqueraded as “suicides” or “accidents.

On Tuesday night, after a N.Y. State Supreme Court judge ruled that the tents that had sheltered the Occupy Wall Street movement could no longer remain in Zuccotti Park, defiant protesters streamed back into a park - the site of a predawn police raid. By Wednesday morning, the park's occupants had dwindled to a couple dozen people drinking coffee.

A federal appeals court threw out a conviction against former New York State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, but allowed prosecutors to get another chance at the powerful politician.

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, 47 percent of Americans said they support repealing the law, versus 42 percent who favor upholding it.

Republican state Sen. Gerald Dial told The Birmingham News that lawmakers 'made some mistakes' when crafting the state's notoriously strict immigration law.

Oba Chandler, a Florida man convicted of killing a mother and her two daughters in 1989, was executed on Wednesday by lethal injection. Chandler, 65, was pronounced dead at 4:25 p.m. at the state prison in Starke, the final chapter of the 22-year-old case.

A high-tension standoff between the protesters and police dragged on for hours, leading to arrests and violence against protesters. Cops tried to keep sidewalks around Zuccotti clear and the park itself was filled with dozens of police officers as well. At its peak, the showdown was between thousands of protesters and hundreds of police officers, many of whom were in riot gear.

Judge's order follows a NYPD raid of the Occupy Wall Street encampment early Tuesday morning at 1 a.m. EST.

Occupy Wall Street activists vowed to take back Zuccotti Park Tuesday afternoon, hours after New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered police to clear the park.

There is an attempt to change the State of Israel, this is what Netanyahu wants to do, she said.

Support is growing for one of the more controversial aspects of the Affordable Care Act, which mandates that most Americans carry health insurance.

As quickly as Occupy Wall Street protesters swept into Manhattan's Duarte Park Tuesday morning, scaling a wall and cutting their way through a chain-link fence to gain access to a private section owned by a nearby church, the NYPD cleared them out.

Patti LaBelle, the famous rhythm-and-blues singer, was accused of screaming a toddler and taking a swing at the mother outside of a Manhattan apartment.

Kenya's newly-constituted Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to rule on a date for next year's elections, stoking voter unease over moves by the government to amend a polling timeline already endorsed by a referendum.

Occupy Wall Street protesters stormed Manhattan's Duarte Square Tuesday morning, hours after being kicked out of Zuccotti Park by the NYPD. Hundreds of protesters descended on the square, where they quickly assembled, erected several wooden makeshift tent-like structures, and began planning their next moves.

A New York State Supreme Court judge granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the city from evicting Occupy Wall Street protesters at Zuccotti Park and preventing them from using tents.

What to know about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear arguments on the Affordable Care Act.

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas gave no indication Monday that they will heed their critics' calls and recuse themselves from the Affordable Care Act case.

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday outlined how the justices will hear arguments on the constitutionality of Obamacare, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's domestic agenda.