The ruling came in a lawsuit filed in July on behalf of people from Afghanistan, Burma, Togo, Somalia and Iran who won the right to apply for visas under the so-called diversity visa program.

A federal judge has allowed four football players fighting NCAA eligibility rules to compete at West Virginia this season.

Brian Walshe's lawyers claimed his murder indictment should be thrown out over insufficient evidence that his wife's death was extremely cruel and atrocious.

A federal judge on Wednesday partially blocked Texas from requiring every public classroom to display the Ten Commandments, despite a law set to take effect next month. The ruling is a victory for critics who argue the statute unconstitutionally blurs the line between church and state.

Lawyers for a Spanish-language journalist who has been held in federal immigration detention since June argue in a court filing that the government is retaliating against him for his news coverage and is holding him in violation of his constitutional rights.

The 31-year-old was sentenced to 32 years in prison. Aslam, 59, was cleared of a firearms offence, but found guilty of conspiracy to murder. He was jailed for 10 years. The court has been told by the judge that the plot was "intended to be an execution".

The Illinois Gaming Board revoked the license of Jeffrey Bertucci's Steak N Egger franchise several weeks ago, accusing him of not coming clean about his past involvement in illegal video gambling. He quickly sued,