The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced on Monday that it has approved a permit for Royal Dutch Shell to drill off the coast of Alaska in the Arctic Ocean. Shell was...

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Monday declined to assert jurisdiction over whether Northwestern University football players can form a union, overturning its 2014 decision which recognized the players as...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday submitted a sealed document in opposition to the habeas corpus petition of Tariq Ba Odah, despite a 2009 government security review that cleared Ba Odah for...

Last week the US Department of Justice challenged the constitutionality of a Boise, Idaho city ordinance that criminalizes sleeping in public places by the homeless. The federal government's argument relies on the...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday announced that a former software executive at SAP SE (SAP) , Vincente E. Garcia, agreed to settle charges filed against him for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices...

The US Department of Commerce on Friday agreed to allow limited crude oil trading with Mexico, easing a ban on crude exports that has been in place for 40 years. Members of the US Congress was informed...

A Kentucky county clerk on Friday again appealed the ruling of a federal judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky ordering her to resume issuing marriage licenses. Following the US Supreme Court's...

A Colorado state appeals court ruled on Thursday that a baker violated Colorado's public accommodations law when he refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The baker, Jack Phillips, refused to make...

The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on Thursday that a state law banning executions for future sentences, but allowing them for past sentences is unconstitutional. Writing for the court, Justice Richard Palmer said...

The Supreme Court of Washington on Thursday ordered the state to pay a fine of $100,000 per day for each day that it fails to comply with a previous court ruling mandating adequate funding of public...