Legal experts disagreed on the likelihood as to whether Amanda Knox will be extradited to Italy after the Court of Cassation, Italy's top criminal court, overturned her acquittal for the 2007 killing of her British roommate Meredith Kercher. The court has ordered for a new trial.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday named veteran Secret Service agent Julia Pierson as the agency's new director Pierson, who most recently served as the agency's chief of staff, will take over from Mark Sullivan, who announced his retirement last month.
North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple has signed into a law what is being called the nation's toughest anti-abortion measure, a law that bans most abortions after six weeks when a fetal heartbeat is first detected.
A New York state appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Anthony Marshall, who was found guilty in 2009 of siphoning millions of dollars from socialite Brooke Astor's estate.
