Federal circuit courts usually toil in anonymity. They are a legal rest stop for landmark cases on the way to the Supreme Court. But this week it was different. All eyes were on three judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, who, for a brief ...

A court employee handed out copies of the decision on President Trump's immigration ban outside of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Building in San Francisco on Thursday. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times. A three-judge panel of the United States ...

Volunteers in New Zealand are racing to rescue survivors after more than 400 pilot whales beached themselves. About 300 have already died at Farewell Spit, on the South Island, in one of the worst such cases in the country. The pod of whales is ...

A session of South Africa's parliament that was convened for a keynote address by the president descended into chaos on Thursday as far-left lawmakers brawled with orderlies after interrupting the speech and the main opposition party walked out ...

Amman: Russian air strikes accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers during an operation against Islamic State in Syria on Thursday, the Turkish military said, highlighting the risk of unintended clashes between the numerous outside powers in a ...

A US appeals court has rejected President Donald Trump's attempt to reinstate his ban on visitors from seven mainly Muslim countries. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said it would not block a lower-court ruling that halted the order. Mr Trump ...

In a significant setback for the Trump administration's first major attempt to carry out its anti-terrorism agenda, a federal appeals court Thursday refused to reinstate a controversial executive order barring travelers from seven predominantly Muslim ...

A federal appeals court panel has maintained the freeze on President Trump's controversial immigration order, meaning previously barred refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries can continue entering the United States. In a unanimous ...

Just four weeks after Donald Trump stood beside a table stacked high with papers trumpeting his plan to separate himself from his business empire, the president and his family and advisers have not made much effort to truly split their business ...