California prison officials have sent layoff notices to 545 employees, including 140 guards, as the inmate population declines to comply with a ...

New health insurance regulations announced recently by the Obama Administration have brought a terse response from the Catholic Diocese of Peoria...

Two years ago, the Supreme Court upended the rules for campaign finance, unleashing a tsunami of unregulated, unrestricted and undisclosed spending ...

A sex case that began in Missouri and passed through Pennsylvania continued its path all the way to Washington, where this week U.S. Supreme Court...

By James Vicini. . WASHINGTON Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:59pm EST . . WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration told the Supreme Court on Friday that...

For once, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have met their match. If you've not been following, Stewart has taken over control of Colbert's ``Super ...

* The people at the Department of Justice really don't want you to see Osama bin Laden's death photos, but don't they realize that the internet...

When he gets finished thanking casino magnate Sheldon Adelson's wife for plopping down $5 million into a "super PAC" supporting his run for the...

(Jim Lindgren) . In the latest New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg endorses 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices, relying on a paper that Steve...

Longtime Buzzblog reader George Grenley writes to call our attention to a pair of posts on the SCOTUSblog (Supreme Court of the United States Blog)...