Leaders of two of the United States' largest law firms, Boston-based Bingham McCutchen and Philadelphia's Morgan Lewis & Bockius, have agreed to merge, according to three people familiar with the matter.
South Carolina House Speaker Bobby Harrell used hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds for personal expenses and falsified his private plane's logbook to seek payment for travel that did not occur, a nine-count indictment on Wednesday said.
A third of Texas' abortion clinics will stay closed after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a key restriction in effect while it is under legal challenge. The decision was 5-4.
26 Palestinian prisoners were released on Tuesday night as part of an Israeli gesture to the Palestinian Authority following the resumpton of peace talks.
