In his Section 1983 Litigation column, Martin A. Schwartz writes that the U.S. Supreme Court recently overturned the Ninth Circuit's "provocation doctrine" on the ground that it was inconsistent with ...

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] 8-0 to strike down [transcript, PDF] the “provocation rule” created by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria's government and its ally Russia accused Washington on Thursday of concocting a "provocation" in Syria, which would then be blamed on President Bashar Assad's government as ...

After a week of jury selection, the felony trial of a 40-year-old Vallejo man charged with the murder of two men and attempted murder of three more in early 2017 in Vallejo began with attorneys’ ...

On Wednesday, March 22, the eight-justice court will hear argument in County of Los Angeles v. Mendez, a Fourth Amendment civil action filed by two people shot by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies ...

It is part of my contract as a contributor writer for America to periodically provoke. When Matt Malone, S.J., first invited me to join as a columnist several years ago, he asked me to surprise my ...

Today brings news that Donald Trump literally gave German chancellor Angela Merkel a $300 billion bill for NATO expenses last weekend: Donald Trump handed the German chancellor Angela Merkel a bill — ...

In March, I wrote about the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Los Angeles County v. Mendez, which was a challenge to the “provocation rule,” a legal concept exclusive to the U.S. Court of ...

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks as his wife Karen Pence listens during a dinner with soldiers and family members after Easter Sunday church services at a military base in Seoul, South Korea, ...

China has accused the United States of staging a “serious political and military provocation” after an American warship sailed near a disputed island in the South China Sea. The USS Stethem, an ...

Beijing is calling the presence of an American destroyer near a sensitive archipelago in the South China Sea "a serious political and military provocation." The statement about the USS Stethem, a ...

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s military said on Wednesday a drone found earlier this month on a mountain near the Demilitarized Zone border was confirmed to have been from North Korea and described ...