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WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange will begin his appeal Tuesday against extradition to Sweden from the United Kingdom to face questioning on sex charges.

Jurors who acquitted Casey Anthony of murdering her 2-year-old daughter are likely to be confronted with their unpopular decision by their families, co-workers and neighbors for years ...

A Florida judge on Thursday sentenced Casey Anthony to four years in jail for lying to police, but said after credit for the nearly three years she already served she could be out of jail by late this month or early August.

Smiling faintly as he walked out of court, former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest Friday after prosecutors acknowledged serious questions about the credibility of the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault....

The Saturday session of Casey Anthony's first-degree murder trial was scuttled by an unspecified "legal issue" announced by Judge Belvin Perry.

Prosecutors have buried Casey Anthony's defense team under such a mountain of circumstantial evidence that at least one legal observer thinks the Florida mother might take the stand to deny killing her 2-year-old daughter.

An attorney testified that the fourth wife of former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson talked about extorting money from her husband just days before she vanished in 2007.

Film director Roman Polanski has lost his bid to be sentenced in a US court without having to return to the country.

A jury is expected to begin deliberations soon in the trial of two people accused of attempting to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta.