Seventeen Uighurs held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, must be freed and allowed into the United States, a federal judge ruled, dealing a blow to the Bush administration.

A federal judge has rejected an appeal from convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, who was sentenced to death for masterminding ...

A federal judge has ruled that Susan P. Lindauer, a former journalist and Congressional aide accused of working with Iraqi intelligence before the war, is still mentally incompetent to stand trial.

SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - A federal judge rejected a proposed plea agreement sentence of probation and a fine for Broadcom Corp co-founder Henry Samueli as too lenient, and postponed his sentencing.

The Libertarian Party's candidate for president won't be on the ballot in West Virginia, after a federal judge ruled that it ...

A federal judge in Fayetteville sentenced Mitchell Johnson, a gunman in the 1998 shootings at a Jonesboro middle school, to four years in prison on unrelated weapons charges.

Promising a “horde of witnesses” in his defense, a federal judge pleaded not guilty to charges that he had groped a former case manager and tried to force her into a sexual act.

Jack Abramoff, the once high-flying lobbyist who pleaded guilty to a scheme to corrupt Congress, asked a federal judge for mercy on Wednesday, saying he was “not a bad man.”

A federal judge in Houston has pleaded not guilty to charges he fondled a former case manager and tried to force her into a sexual ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co may shift billions of dollars of health care obligations for retired hourly workers to a trust fund overseen by the United Auto Workers union in 2010, a federal judge ruled on Friday.