Sen. Mitch McConnell R-KY on Thursday urged conservatives to stick to their principles and realize that battles over issues such as reform for health care or campaign finance required a long-term, lifetime commitment effort to get right.
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed changes in the Universal Service Fund, in a bid to improve rural broadband services.
As part of its strategy to bring broadband service to rural areas, the Federal Communications Commission will decide today how to reform the Universal Service Fund, set up in the 1930s to fund networks in underserved areas.
A war of words between Uganda's main presidential candidates escalated on Friday, sparking fears of Egypt-style street violence should the opposition say the poll was rigged.
The United Kingdom Supreme Court has ruled that text-based communications such as posting on micro-blogging service Twitter will be allowed in court hearings.
A bill to reduce the likelihood of massive damage awards in patent disputes took a step forward on Thursday with approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Florida-based asbestos litigation law firm Kelley & Ferraro LLP has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy seeking reprieve from an Ohio appeals court's ruling that the law firm must be dissolved as part of an agreement with the firm's deceased partner and co-founder Michael Kelley.
Florida Governor Rick Scott said on Monday that a federal judge's ruling has confirmed many assumptions about the illegality of last year's landmark healthcare law.
Donald Verrilli Jr., a former partner at Jenner & Block, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as the Solicitor General of the United States.
Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former, hardnosed Chief of Staff, was kicked off the ballot for mayor of Chicago today by an Illinois appellate court.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a federal law barring retaliation against a worker for complaints about on-the-job discrimination also protected the employee's relative from unlawful dismissal.
The following is a White House transcript of remarks by President Barack Obama as delivered at the 50th Anniversary of John F. Kennedy's Inauguration, at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., on January 20, 2011.
The government in its background investigations of employees can ask about their drug treatment, medical conditions or other personal information, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday
The Supreme Court of India has adjourned until the second week of February a hearing on a petition seeking to lift a ban on iron ore exports from Karnataka, a court order showed on Thursday.
A New York City cigar smoker is being sued by his neighbors who claim that the odor and fumes of his stogies waft into their home and create an annoyance and a health hazard.
Nevada's new governor-elect and former federal judge Brian Sandoval has named his former clerk Lucas Foletta as his general counsel even though the latter has not passed the Nevada state bar exam.
Four big music labels namely, Sony, Warner Music, EMI, and a unit of Vivendi SA, the company behind Universal Music Group have been sued for infringing works of thousands of artists.
One of Jared Loughner’s favorite books, according to the 22-year-old Arizona assassin’s YouTube profile, is Gulliver’s Travels. So, my theory is that Irish satirists put him up to it.
The California Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police can search cell phone text messages of an arrested person without any warrant, and asserted that those arrested have no privacy rights over any personal belongings on them when they are taken into custody.
Hal Turner, a right-wing blogger and Internet radio host, has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for threatening to assault and murder three judges of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago in response to their 2009 ruling upholding handgun bans in the city.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has been sued by The New York Times (NYT) for routinely violating Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) that requires government agencies to provide information to the press and the public.
Joe Miller, the Republican nominee for Alaska's U.S. Senate seat, says he will not oppose state certification for the November election because he wants his state to be represented in Washington. Nonetheless, he is keeping a federal suit alive.
