China said it will further cut import taxes for a wide range of consumer goods including several categories of baby formula, in a bid to boost consumption. The country’s dairy stocks fell.

A guilty verdict against Ratko Mladic, who presided over siege warfare in Bosnia during the 1990s, carries a message on the crimes in Yemen today. By Peter Maass.

"In the ongoing debate over what obligations technology companies should have to police their sites, this is a recurring question: Are technology giants neutral platforms that simply host user content, or are they instead media companies that exercise editorial control (and thus responsibility) over what they publish? From a legal perspective, how these companies are categorized has real stakes."

The outcome of this case may bring clarity to the property rights of Americans living in the shadow of police militarization. By Jay Stooksberry.

Those relying on the federal government’s safety net are grandmothers, the kid next door, your supermarket cashier — maybe even you.

Some of the most pressing questions and misconceptions about how Capitol Hill handles, and settles, misconduct complaints.

It's been barely a month since news came to us of the Worth County (GA) Sheriff's Department's search of an entire school's worth of high school students. Over 800 students were searched without a warrant, subjected to invasive pat...

A possible Supreme Court case with real consequences for how federal courts and foreign governments engage on foreign law.

Want to become a florist in Louisiana? A home-entertainment installer in Connecticut? Or a barber anywhere? You’re going to need a license for that—and it’s going to cost you. By Conor Friedersdorf.

A 22-year-old Norwegian student has been handed a 250,000-kroner (US$30,400) fine for drunken driving -- but can still count herself lucky. Katharina G. Andresen is reportedly Norway's richest woman, with a fortune estimated by Forbes at $1.23 billion. Fines for drunken driving in Norway are based on the defendant's income. Newspaper Finansavisen reported that Oslo City Court said the penalty could have been up to 40 million kroner ($4.9 million) if based on Andresen's assets, but they "have not yielded any dividend yet" and she has no fixed income.

Celebrated criminal barrister who defended Christine Keeler, George Blake and Howard Marks, and played a key role in the Lady Chatterley trial. By Geoffrey Robertson.

Linda Greenhouse on why "the opposite of objectivity isn’t partisanship."

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Friday signed into law a bill that eliminates statutes of limitations for all felony criminal sexual assault and sexual abuse crimes against children. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan initiated the bill sponsored by Sen. Scott Bennett and Rep. Michelle Mussman. Effective immediately, the law applies to future felony child sex crime cases as well as current criminal cases in which the previous statute of limitations has not expired.

Republican lawyers and lawmakers are working together to install conservative judges on the influential federal appeals courts at a clip not seen in decades.

Brett J. Talley, President Trump’s nominee to be a federal judge in Alabama, has never tried a case, was unanimously rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Assn.’s judicial rating committee, has practiced law for only three years and, as a blogger last year, displayed a degree of partisanship unusual for a judicial nominee. By David G. Savage.

A Sevier County Sheriff’s Office deputy opened fire without warning in a mobile home park, suffered an apparent panic attack four minutes later and was forcibly disarmed by a paramedic, body camera footage shows. By Jamie Satterfield.

At stake in a case before the country’s Supreme Court: how much influence Canada’s indigenous groups will have over land and natural resources in their traditional territories.

Less than a month after a first report was delivered on Washington, DC police body camera use, a second one has arrived. And it seems to contradict some assertions made in the first report. The first report was put together by an extension of...

Of the many stories of official government suppression that came out of the Vietnam War era protest movements, one of the most compelling is the saga of Kiyoshi Kuromiya’s indelible “Fuck the Draft” poster. By Ron Kretsch.

Several states are passing laws cracking down on people trying to pass off their pets as service animals.