Today is Sunday, March 21, the 80th day of 2010. There are 285 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 21st, 1960, about 70 people were killed in Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on black protesters; the shooting drew international condemnation. (On this date in 1985, police in Langa, South Africa ...

The Idaho Supreme Court has denied requests from six death row inmates who said they were entitled to new trials because a U.S. Supreme Court ruling made after their convictions called on juries, not judges, to impose the death penalty. All the men ...

A federal judge refused Wednesday to postpone the June start of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial, brushing aside defense attorneys' claims that they won't have enough time to prepare. U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel also dismissed defense attorneys' concerns that ...

The White House on Sunday defended President Barack Obama's scathing criticism of a Supreme Court decision that allows unions and corporations to funnel unlimited dollars to political campaigns. Senior adviser David Axelrod and press secretary Robert Gibbs refused to retreat from criticism Obama leveled ...