In his new book, Stephen Breyer details cases involving the interdependence of law in the U.S. and other countries. No branch of government can avoid dealing with global issues any more, he said.
A Charleston, S.C., judge ruled that Michael Slager will have to remain in jail. Slager, then an officer, was caught on video, shooting Walter Scott in the back during a traffic stop in April.
After Michael Brown's shooting, a group was tasked with investigating the region's inequalities. Their report points to deep racial and economic tensions, and calls for sweeping policy changes.
Many fruits and vegetables must be harvested by hand because it's hard and costly to design machines that won't damage them. But as farm labor dwindles, there's a new push to develop more farm robots.
The Kentucky clerk says she asked that her name and title be taken off marriage licenses but that she won't stop her deputies from issuing them. She says she has "great doubts" the licenses are valid.
Thousands of people were placed under evacuation orders after strong winds helped what fire officials are calling the Valley wildfire explode to 50,000 acres in just one day.
Gilroy also won a Tony Award and a Drama Critic's Circle Award for The Subject Was Roses, a play about a World War II veteran returning home from war. He died Saturday.
The Obama administration unveiled its long-awaited College Scorecard on Saturday. It aims to help prospective students decide what school best fits their needs.
"We have begun to build a problem-solving machine," say the members of a governor-appointed panel that has spent months identifying entrenched issues in Ferguson and St. Louis.