We recently posted about a disturbing case in Alabama involving as 12-year-old girl who needed to get an abortion after being raped by an adult family member. While the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals finally agreed she didn’t need parental consent normally required in that situation, there were government officials trying to make sure she couldn’t go through with the procedure. They were literally in court on behalf of the unborn child, urging the state to make the 12-year-old girl give birth.

A class-action complaint against Comcast can move forward after a federal judge rejected a Comcast motion to dismiss it. The lawsuit, filed in October 2016 in US District Court in Northern California, accuses Comcast of falsely advertising low prices and then using poorly disclosed fees to increase the amount paid by cable TV customers. Those fees are the "Broadcast TV Fee," which had increased from $1.50 a month to $6.50 since 2014, and the "Regional Sports Fee" that rose from $1 to $4.50 since 2015.

Aetna’s second-quarter profit jumped 52 percent to top expectations.

Joe Arpaio, the notoriously brutal and racist former Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, was found guilty of criminal contempt, report correspondents from the courthouse in Phoenix. He'll be sentenced in October.

A bill prohibiting Mainers below age 21 from purchasing tobacco products will soon become law. The Senate voted 29-5 and the House voted 90-44 to override Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of the proposal, which supporters say will lower smoking rates and smoking-related deaths.

Both the county and Hays CISD made clear that students and faculty are not part of the drill.

So we fully expected the ongoing to lawsuit filed by coal boss Bob Murray against comedian John Oliver to lead to some truly captivating moments (it already has!), but the West Virginia chapter of the ACLU has leapt into the case with wild abandon and...

Matt and Katie accused their father of sexual abuse. Then they started to question their memories.

By the time Noura Jackson’s conviction was overturned, she had spent nine years in prison. This type of prosecutorial error is almost never punished.

Honolulu pedestrians will need to start putting their phones away when they’re crossing the street later this year. Earlier this week, the city passed Bill 6, an ordinance that enacts fines against anyone crossing “a street or highway while viewing a mobile electronic device.”

Group behind California’s latest “Calexit” move to secede from the U.S. to begin collecting signatures.

The most outspoken member of the Supreme Court avoided talking about President Trump, a subject that caused her grief last year, but remained candid in discussing the court.

The family of two Fort Worth brothers who were electrocuted in March by a downed power line are suing Oncor, Texas' largest energy provider. The...

“Duterte’s Hell” gives an inside look at Rodrigo Duterte’s murderous drug war in the Philippines — and how its victims deal with the fallout.

In 2011, Scaramucci celebrated Citizens United for making possible exactly what the Supreme Court said wouldn't happen.

Officeholders commit “a cardinal sin under the First Amendment” when they block their critics, the court held.

President Trump on Saturday threatened to end key payments to insurance companies made under Obamacare if a repeal and replace bill is not passed.

Women make up just under 35 percent of lawyers at law firms, a Law360 report found, and their share of equity partnerships remains at 20 percent.

His other lawyer had been disbarred.

The legacy of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which partially decriminalised male homosexuality 50 years ago.