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Deadly brawl is latest test of self-defense laws 06/18/2014 04:34pm • SADIE GURMAN Associated Press DENVER (AP) -- A Colorado prosecutor said he's frustrated that the state's "Make My Day" law prevents him from charging a man who killed an acquaintance during a drunken brawl that spilled into his home, becoming the latest test to self-defense gun laws nationwide.The N 1980 coup leaders given life sentences in Turkey 06/18/2014 11:52am • SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- In a showcase trial aimed at ending the military's interference in Turkish politics for good, a court on Wednesday convicted the only two surviving leaders of the country's 1980 military coup of crimes against the state and sentenced them to life US seizes Benghazi suspect in deadly Libya attack 06/18/2014 03:06am • LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. special forces seized a "key leader" of the deadly Benghazi, Libya, attack and he is on his way to face trial in the U.S. for the fiery assault that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, the Obama administration announced Tues GPS tracking case has left unsettled questions 06/17/2014 09:16am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Judges around the country are grappling with the ripple effects of a 2-year-old Supreme Court ruling on GPS tracking, reaching conflicting conclusions on the case's broader meaning and tackling unresolved questions that flare in a world where privacy a FBI questions disrupt 9/11 case at Guantanamo 06/17/2014 03:40am • BEN FOX Associated Press GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) -- Lawyers for Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attack say the FBI has questioned more support staff on their legal teams, a development that may prompt a new detour in an already snarled case as the war crimes tribunal reconv Supreme Court rules on 'straw purchaser' law 06/17/2014 02:40am • SAM HANANEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A divided Supreme Court sided with gun control groups and the Obama administration Monday, ruling that the federal ban on "straw" purchases of guns can be enforced even if the ultimate buyer is legally allowed to own a gun.The justices ruled 5-4 that t UN calls Iraq reports almost certain war crimes 06/16/2014 01:32pm • JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) -- Evidence shows that the Islamic militants who massacred scores of captured Iraqi soldiers "almost certainly" committed war crimes, U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said Monday.Pillay condemned what she called the reported "cold-blooded executions of h Santos re-elected Colombia president in peace vote 06/16/2014 03:32am • FRANK BAJAK Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Juan Manuel Santos convincingly won re-election Sunday after Colombia's tightest presidential contest in years, an endorsement of his 18-month-old peace talks to end the Western Hemisphere's longest-running conflict.Santos got 53 percent of the v Cleveland officers plead not guilty in fatal chase 06/13/2014 01:38pm • MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) -- Six Cleveland police officers charged for their roles in a November 2012 car chase that ended with a hail of 137 gunshots and the deaths of two unarmed suspects pleaded not guilty Friday to various crimes.The six officers were arraigned in Cuyahoga C UK court says terror trial can be partly secret 06/13/2014 04:40am • JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- A British court ruled Thursday that the bulk of a terrorism trial can be held in secret on national security grounds, but rejected prosecutors' attempt to impose secrecy on the entire case, from the selection of the jury to the identity of the defendants. Simpson case at 20: Views in black and white 06/12/2014 02:07pm • JESSE WASHINGTON AP National Writer The O.J. Simpson murder trial exposed many painful truths. None hit harder than the idea that white and black people often look at the same facts and see different realities.Today, 20 years after the case divided the nation, few opinions have changed. Despite two Figures in OJ Simpson saga have moved on 06/12/2014 02:04pm • LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As if trying to escape a recurring nightmare, most of the survivors of O.J. Simpson's "Trial of the Century" refuse to talk about it on the 20th anniversary of the tragedy. And that includes Simpson who sent word from prison that he has noth Figures in OJ Simpson saga have moved on 06/12/2014 02:04pm • LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As if trying to escape a recurring nightmare, most of the survivors of O.J. Simpson's "Trial of the Century" refuse to talk about it on the 20th anniversary of the tragedy. And that includes Simpson who sent word from prison that he has noth Court: Warrantless cell tracking unconstitutional 06/11/2014 07:30pm • CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI (AP) -- Investigators must obtain a search warrant from a judge in order to obtain cellphone tower tracking data that is widely used as evidence to show suspects were in the vicinity of a crime, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.In the first ruling o Illegal profits: A look at insider trading 06/11/2014 04:02am • KEN SWEET AP Markets Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Few crimes on Wall Street generate more headlines than insider trading.The definition is straightforward: An investor profits on non-public information at the expense of others.But proving that someone did it can be complicated without direct proof that t