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A federal judge has declined to dismiss charges against Google that it allegedly violated the Federal Wiretap Act when it collected personal data from Wi-Fi networks. More...

Organizers of a rally against the closure of the Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre are expecting a big crowd Saturday, including worried members of one of the federal government's largest unions. The Public Service Alliance, holding its Atlantic regional convention in St. John's, promises to be at...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama's governor on Thursday signed a tough new illegal immigration crackdown that contains provisions requiring public schools to determine students' immigration status and making it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride. The bill also allows police to...

Washington (CNN) -- Former Democratic vice presidential nominee and two-time presidential candidate John Edwards pleaded not guilty Friday to conspiracy and campaign law violations, acknowledging that he had "done wrong," but denying that he broke the law. His plea came hours after a federal...

<div>A federal appeals court has lifted the order banning public prayer at a Texas high school graduation Saturday. The reversal comes on the heels of increasing criticism of a federal judge's earlier ruling that agreed with the parents of one graduating student that religious expression...

Washington Former Democratic vice presidential nominee and two-time presidential candidate John Edwards was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on six counts, including conspiracy, issuing false statements, and violating campaign contribution laws. If convicted on all counts, the...

Washington (CNN) -- John Edwards' lawyer Greg Craig was in North Carolina on Friday amid signs that the former senator and 2008 presidential candidate likely either will be indicted or he and the Justice Department will agree on a plea deal, a source with knowledge of the investigation said...

AUSTIN, Texas – Lance Armstrong is adding two lawyers to his legal team who previously won a major legal victory against federal investigators in a doping case. John Keker and Elliot Peters of San Francisco represented Major League Baseball players as they won a key appeals court case two years...

Inflation hit the highest level in 2-1/2 years as food and energy prices moved higher, but there was little sign of a broader pick-up in inflation that would trouble the Federal Reserve. The Labor Department said on Friday its Consumer Price Index increased 0.4 percent in April from March after...

The U.S. Federal Reserve joined other Group of Seven central banks in intervening in currency markets to help weaken the Japanese yen on Friday, a New York Federal Reserve spokesman told Reuters.

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/01/10/exp.am.intv.bowman.cnn -- President Barack Obama will sign a bill in the Oval Office on Thursday naming a new federal courthouse in Yuma, Arizona, after slain federal Judge John M. Roll. The 63-year old judge was gunned down in Tucson, Arizona...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2010/03/10/lok.candiotti.jihad.jane.cnn -- Colleen LaRose, the woman who authorities say called herself "Jihad Jane" on YouTube, has changed her mind about fighting government charges that she was plotting to wage violent jihad overseas. She planned to plead...

-- A bodyguard for the mayor of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was shot and killed in an exchange with Mexican federal police, a federal police spokesman said late Tuesday. The shooting happened near the international bridge between Juarez and El Paso, Texas, according to spokesman Ramon Salinas...

PHOENIX (Reuters) – Tucson shooting rampage suspect Jared Loughner is due to appear in federal court on Monday on charges of attempting to assassinate Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the attempted murder of two of her staff members. A troubled 22-year-old college dropout, Loughner is...

-- The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal over a federal law banning felons from having bulletproof vests or body armor. The 7-2 decision on Monday not to intervene was a reaffirmation of congressional authority over a wide range of commerce. The order was one of several hundred pending...

The suspect in the Arizona shooting in which six people were killed and a congresswoman was shot in the head is to appear before a federal magistrate on Monday. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/01/09/nr.mother.daughters.survive.cnn -- The suspect in the weekend shooting at an Arizona...

Medically discharged corporal Dennis Manuge, centre, of Musquodoboit N.S., and Ron Cundell, left, of Kettleby, Ont., listen as then veterans ombudsman and retired colonel Patrick Stogran speaks at a news conference in Ottawa on Aug. 17. The Supreme Court of Canada has paved the way for a...

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says he and his provincial and territorial counterparts have agreed on "implementation of a framework" to create a private pension plan for small businesses, employees and the self-employed. But Flaherty, speaking Monday after a finance ministers meeting in...

Nazario Moreno Gonzalez was gunned down by security forces on Friday Ten people were killed and 18 injured in clashes between "criminal gangs" in a southwestern Mexican town, Mexico's federal government said Saturday. Mexico's interior ministry issued a statement blasting what it called...

The Associated Press, Updated: December 8, 2010 6:12 PM REUTERS ORLANDO, Fla. - Actor Wesley Snipes made a last-minute request for a new trial a day before he is scheduled to report to prison for failing to pay taxes. Snipes' attorney Daniel Meachum has said he received an e-mail from a juror...