President Barack Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, a source said.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg today effectively opened the door of No 10 to David Cameron by saying the Conservative Party had the “first right” to attempt to form a government in the UK.

Jail terms handed down to the killers of a Catholic schoolboy in the North were not too lenient, the Attorney General’s office ruled today.

A judge has been asked to decide whether John McCain is a “natural born” American citizen, a constitutional requirement for the US presidency.

Alberto Gonzales, the first Hispanic attorney general in the US, announced his resignation today, driven from office after a wrenching stand-off with congressional critics over his honesty and competence.

The US Supreme Court today agreed to decide the constitutionality of a child pornography law that a lower US court said makes a crime out of merely talking about illegal images.

ARCHIBALD COX’S refusal to curtail his Watergate investigation after being ordered to do so by the White House cost him his job, and opened the way for President Richard Nixon’s impeachment.

HUNDREDS of family court cases involving children taken into care on the basis of expert evidence that they were at risk of harm could be overturned, British Children’s Minister Margaret Hodge said yesterday.

THE Supreme Court will hear its first case arising from the American government’s anti-terrorism campaign following the September 11 attacks, agreeing yesterday to consider whether foreigners held at a Navy base in Cuba should have access to American courts.

The voices of children marked the profound horror and grief of September 11 today, joining in song at Ground Zero and reading the names of 2,792 loved ones who died there exactly two years ago.