United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer on Wednesday called on the US to end impunity for those officials who have committed acts of torture. Melzer urged US authorities to take action on the findings...
A committee in Ireland's Houses of Oireachtas on Wednesday voted to recommend that the full parliament repeal the country's Eighth Amendment , which dictates that an unborn child and mother have an equal right to life. The...
The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied the government's request to delay implementation of a preliminary injunction halting portions of President Donald Trump's transgender military ban. In...
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in seven cases. In Benisek v. Lamone , the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to Maryland's 2011 electoral map. The petitioners allege that...
The US Senate approved some version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act by a vote of 51-49 early Saturday morning. The Senate's consideration of the proposed legislation began at 10:00 am Friday, and...
Former Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Tuesday filed notice of her intention to appeal the dismissal of her defamation suit against the New York Times . Palin filed suit in June,...
The Russian Federation on Friday vetoed a measure before the UN Security Council (UNSC) that would have extended the mandate of a UN panel investigating the use of chemical weapons in Syria for thirty days. The...
PennLive's Wallace McKelvey tours Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District, calling it "one of the nation's most gerrymandered." The Seventh spans a wide swath of southeastern Pennsylvania, from the Delaware border in to the suburbs outside Reading. While we're talking about the...
In a Proclamation issued late Sunday, US President Donald Trump identified eight countries that have failed to cooperate in information sharing activities to the extent the administration deems necessary to protect US security interests. The affected countries...
US President Donald Trump on Friday directed the Secretaries of the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS) to continue prior policies banning transgender individuals from military service. The ban had been lifted...
