Government News
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Texas' highest criminal court has refused an appeal from Kimberly Cargill, an East Texas woman on death row for the slaying seven years ago of her developmentally disabled baby sitter
April 26, 2017 -
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from a 60-year-old Texas inmate condemned for helping a former suburban Houston police officer murder his wife more than 22 years ago
April 26, 2017 -
Internet companies are readying for a showdown with a Republican-controlled government over a policy near and dear to their hearts: net neutrality
April 26, 2017 -
About 400 people have marched in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, to mark the anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster and protest the construction of a nuclear plant in Belarus
April 26, 2017 -
The Supreme Court seems ready to limit when the government can strip an immigrant of U.S. citizenship for lying during the naturalization process
April 26, 2017 -
Senators arrive on White House grounds for extraordinary briefing on North Korea
April 26, 2017 -
The Supreme Court on Wednesday considered a drug company's fight to keep a generic version of its biotech drug off the market for an additional six months that would mean billions more in sales and higher costs to the public
April 26, 2017 -
Top Trump administration officials insist the president's proposed tax plan, which would slash corporate and individual tax rates, will not add to the deficit
April 26, 2017 -
President Donald Trump has come out with a trio of tweets complaining about a judge who blocked his order to penalize cities that don't cooperate with U.S. immigration officials
April 26, 2017 -
Russia has criticized Turkey's airstrikes against Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq, saying they hinder efforts to combat the Islamic State group
April 26, 2017 -
Greek and Turkish Cypriot activists formed a human chain across Cyprus' ethnic divide to protest Turkey's planned nuclear power station that they say poses real dangers to the nearby east Mediterranean island
April 26, 2017 -
Iranian media says "terrorists" have killed 10 Iranian border guards on the frontier with Pakistan and wounded three others
April 26, 2017 -
A new era of White House oratory is underway, chock full of asides, bravado and simple superlatives
April 26, 2017 -
A jailhouse friend of Aaron Hernandez is suggesting the former NFL star hinted at his suicide weeks before he was found hanging by a bedsheet in his prison cell last week
April 26, 2017 -
A German federal court has upheld a complaint by a teacher at a Greek school in Germany against a pay cut the Greek government imposed at the height of the country's financial crisis
April 26, 2017