The Trump administration filed a petition Thursday asking the Supreme Court to temporarily lift injunctions that block the president's executive order suspending visa issuance to individuals traveling to the US from six Muslim-majority countries. The move...
US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the US will no longer be part of the Paris climate accord . 195 nations have signed on to the deal making it a world-wide effort to curb global warming. Foreign...
Governor Kate Brown signed a bill on Wednesday that allows for transgender Oregonians to make updates to their birth certificates without publicly doing so through the court system. Before the legislation, amendments to document concerning people's names...
California senators approved a bill in a 26-12 vote on Wednesday that will add a third gender option to state IDs for people who identify as non-binary. The bill will next pass to the Assembly and, if approved, will...
The Illinois House of Representatives approved a bill in a vote of 61-53 on Tuesday to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour. The bill proposes a series of increases over the next five years...
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that restrictions placed on a patented product could not be enforced through an infringement suit because an authorized sale exhausts all rights under the Patent Act . In Impression Products, Inc....
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that in cases of statutory rape where sexual intercourse is criminalized based solely on the ages of the participants, the federal definition requires the age of the victim to be less than...
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega died late Monday night at the age of 83. President Juan Carlos Varela announced his death saying, "The death of Manuel A. Noriega closes a chapter in our history; his daughters...
An Australian official announced plans Tuesday to introduce new legislation that will prevent registered sex offenders from traveling overseas in an effort to prevent pedophiles from taking part in child sex trafficking. Registered sex offenders would not be able...
According a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report , Chechen police have rounded up, beaten and humiliated dozens of men who are suspected of being gay or bisexual in an attempt to purge them from society. The report contains...
