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The government has appealed the $17.8 million awarded to a family for the deaths of four people when a Marine jet fighter crashed into their California home. The formal notice of appeal, filed Tuesday, did not specify the government's reason for contesting U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller's...

AP - North Korea's main state newspaper is calling Kim Jong Il's heir the head of the ruling Workers' Party Central Committee. More...

The future of internet pricing and competition in Canada is about to be determined by a ruling from the CRTC. More...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The next scheduled stop on the Arab protest tour: Kuwait. This, however, is more of a return engagement. Calls for anti-government rallies Tuesday are an extension of nasty political skirmishes in Kuwait that were under way long before the first glint of dissent...

-- The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel met residency requirements and that his name will stay on the mayoral ballot in Chicago. The justices said Emanuel's opponents did not prove that he had given up residency when he served in the...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2011/01/25/sot.emanuel.confident.cltv -- The Illinois Supreme Court will take up a ruling that would keep Rahm Emanuel off the Chicago mayoral ballot, and the court has agreed to a motion for an expedited ruling. There will be no oral arguments in the...

Proposition 8 opponents celebrate a ruling to overturn the law on August 4, 2010, in San Fransisco, California. -- A federal appeals court in San Francisco, California, decided Tuesday to indefinitely delay consideration of a controversial case regarding the constitutionality of that state's...

Venezuela's elections in September weakened President Hugo Chavez's ruling party's hold on power. Venezuela's lame-duck National Assembly has granted President Hugo Chavez the power to pass laws by decree for the next 18 months, the website of state-run Venezuelan Television reported Friday...

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the U.S. military to stop enforcing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, putting an end to the ban on openly gay troops. U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips' permanent worldwide injunction -- praised by gay rights organizations -- orders the military...