Romania's parliament approved legislation on Friday that facilitates financial support for Holocaust survivors. The law, which will be enforced starting July 1, will offer 400 lei (USD $97.98) per month for each year of deportation or detention to...
More than a dozen Democratic attorneys general filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit that threatens key parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on Thursday. House v. Price (formerly House v. Burwell) , a...
Sweden's Director of Public Prosecution, Marianne Ny, dropped the preliminary investigation of rape charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday. The decision was made on the grounds that in order to continue with court proceedings,...
Oregon became the second US state to enact legislation that makes it easier for transgender individuals to change the name and gender on their birth certificates on Thursday. The law allows transgender Oregon residents to...
Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby was found not guilty of first-degree manslaughter in the shooting of an unarmed black man on Wednesday. Terence Crutcher was fatally shot after his SUV stalled on the side of the road. Shelby testified [NPR...
Former FBI director Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to the investigation of Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election on Wednesday. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein issued the order in place of Attorney General...
Chelsea Manning was released from US Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, a military prison, on Wednesday. In 2013 Manning was convicted of stealing 700,000 documents and releasing them to WikiLeaks while she was an intelligence analyst in Iraq....
A Mississippi man was sentenced to 49 years in prison and a fine of $20,000 on Monday in the first-ever conviction under the Matthew Shepard, James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act , a federal hate crime statute....
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday said they have found evidence that could link North Korea to the recent cyberattack that affected 300,000 computers in 150 countries over the weekend. The so-called WannaCry ransomware has lines of code that...
President Donald Trump's administration announced plans Monday to expand the so-called Mexico City Policy blocking international family planning assistance through the US Agency for International Development to any groups or programs that provide abortion or abortion...
