Law & Society

A three-judge panel at the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia dealt a blow to New Jersey's efforts to legalize sports gambling by upholding a ruling that state's betting law conflicts with federal law and therefore should not be implemented

U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt granted a new trial for five former New Orleans Police Department officers who were convicted in the deadly shootings at the Danzinger Bridge after Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing cover-up

The White House was locked down in an alert on Monday after a man threw firecrackers over the outer fence, which sparked great concern, hours after a shooting spree in Washington D.C. left 13 people dead