Two suburbs that charge a $5 fee for each political sign that residents put in their yards are infringing on constitutional rights to free speech, the American Civil Liberties Union said.

A student was arrested and security tightened at a southern Idaho high school in a week of racial tension that began when a teacher confiscated the Mexican flag of a student celebrating Cinco de Mayo.

The CIA must let a judge view a 2002 memo purportedly including waterboarding among interrogation methods to be used on prisoners in U.S. custody so he can decide whether it should be made public, the judge ruled Thursday.

The CIA must let a judge view a 2002 memo purportedly including waterboarding among interrogation methods to be used on prisoners in U.S. custody so he can decide if it should be made public, the judge ruled Thursday.

The Oregon Supreme Court said the state's school board must further review whether high school basketball tournament schedules should be adjusted to accommodate a team's Saturday Sabbath.

The United States must develop a communications plan to counter radical Islamic messages on the Internet, according to a Congressional report released Thursday.

Baltimore County must pay nearly $70,000 in fees after losing a lawsuit over a local ordinance that set time limits for political signs on residents’ front lawns.

A nonprofit digital library has successfully fought an FBI attempt to seize information about one of its users, and is calling on other groups to challenge government agencies attempting to obtain online customer information without a judge's order.

Sixteen minimum-security inmates from Wyoming are among the more than 100 inmates the state has sent to a maximum-security Virginia prison that has been the target of human rights complaints over the years.

Condemned inmate William Castillo, who until now has declined to file appeals that could keep him alive, joined Wednesday in a state Supreme Court challenge of Nevada's lethal injection execution procedure.