Law & Society

The owner of an Oregon-based defense firm pleaded guilty on Monday to bribery charges including a $171 million conspiracy.

US President Barack Obama's bid to save his proposal to spare millions of immigrants in the country illegally from deportation and give them work permits hit a wall on Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court in a case testing the limits of presidential power.

India's growing cases of mouth and throat cancer prompts the government to issue a new ban on the manufacture and sale of all forms of chewing tobacco. Violators will be fined 300,000 rupees and gets imprisoned for up to six months.