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In 2009, the court used administrative law to uphold the FCC's decision to fine Fox for broadcasting a live event in which the singer Cher used the F-word while accepting an award. The justices ducked the censorship issue, specifically reserving it for another day. That day has now come.

The man some Republicans once hoped would be their party's 2012 presidential nominee, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, will instead deliver the keynote speech at the national convention that will make Mitt Romney the GOP's official standard bearer.

Arizona border sheriff Larry Dever died Tuesday in an automobile accident. For more than a decade, he pressed the U.S. government to bring some order to the 84 miles of border that Cochise County shares with Mexico.

The justices tried to untangle a three-court knot. The case tests the allocation of four new congressional seats that were created largely because of that state's booming Latino population. But it could have nationwide repercussions.

Benjamin Arellano-Felix, the former leader of a major Mexican drug trafficking organization, was sentenced in San Diego on Monday to 25 years in prison. Some observers are surprised by the light sentence and question whether such prosecutions have done much to stem the bloodshed in Mexico, and the flow of drugs to the U.S.

The federal law overhauling health care is supposed to make it easier for patients to keep insurance coverage when enrolling in studies of experimental treatments. But for studies outside insurers' networks, problems for patients remain.

U.S. companies that have their networks routinely penetrated and their trade secrets stolen cannot be surprised by a new National Intelligence Estimate on the cyberespionage threat. The classified NIE, the first-ever focusing on cybersecurity, concludes that the U.S. is the target of a major espionage campaign, with China the leading culprit.

As part of the U.S. Justice Department's investigation into the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, a federal judge in New Orleans recently created a security zone around the collapsed rig, the legal equivalent of taking yellow police tape and draping it around the watery crime scene.

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., shook much of Washington, D.C., and was felt as far north as Rhode Island and New York City.

Elizabeth Emken and Dianne Feinstein, the two California candidates for U.S. Senate, talk to KPBS.