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The declaration by Thailand's army happened less than two weeks after the prime minister was thrown out of office by the country's Constitutional Court. The army says it needs to keep order and peace.

The Italian Supreme Court ordered that Amanda Knox be retried for the 2007 murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher. This decision overturned her acquittal from 2011. If she's found guilty this time around, she could face extradition.

Recent mass shootings have shown how law enforcement can fail to prevent attacks by people who are known threats. The system is limited in what it can do, but there's also room for improvement.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared an “emergency martial law," accusing the country's opposition of controlling the parliament and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities.

A federal judge will decide whether to block Texas' new restrictive abortion law after hearing from Justice Department attorneys and lawyers for the state. He offered no timetable for a decision.

A Senate panel on Wednesday approved blunting a broadly written 2019 opioid law that left many Florida physicians confused.

Floridians voted to put protections for crime victims in the state constitution, but lawmakers and officials are grappling with how to put the measure...

The Islamist militia that ousted the secular warlords who ran the Somali capital of Mogadishu for 15 years have begun imposing their own brand of Muslim rule. Alex Chadwick talks with Rob Crilly, reporting from Somalia for The Christian Science Monitor, about the changes seem with the transfer of power. Crilly is one of a very few reporters reporting from Mogadishu -- a neglected, crumbling city the ousted warlords have vowed to recapture.

News of a horrific gang rape in India prompted protest and outrage. Similar reactions, followed allegations of gang rape by members of the Steubenville High School football team in Ohio. The extreme cases raise question about what we've learned about rapists and why so many cases go unreported.

A family divided by immigration law. Four U.S. citizen siblings are finding ways to make it work after their mother was denied a green card in Arizona.