The Maryland Senate on Wednesday voted 27-20 to repeal the death penalty, a legislative goal long sought by Governor Martin O'Malley . Passed after several days of debate, Senate Bill 276 ...
Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court on Wednesday referred the country's newly passed electoral law to the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) for review, thereby delaying parliamentary elections originally set to begin on April 22. The court's decision is said...
California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Wednesday filed an amicus curiae brief with the US Supreme Court arguing that the ban on same-sex marriage imposed by the state's Proposition...
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in North Korea Marzuki Darusman and a group of independent human rights experts on Thursday announced their support for an international inquiry into human rights violations in...
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday signed into law the country's most expansive education reforms in seven decades. In a deal reached by Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (IRP) and two...
A court in Egypt ruled Wednesday that policeman may grow beards, ending the long-standing precedent of ex-President Hosni Mubarak barring facial hair because it was considered to be a public display of Islamic...
Lockheed Martin Corp. (Lockheed) on Wednesday agreed to pay $19.5 million to settle a fraud class action claim alleging that the advanced technology company misled investors in violation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act)...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously in Gunn v. Minton that federal law does not deprive state courts of subject matter jurisdiction over a state law claim alleging legal malpractice in...
Two members of the US House of Representatives on Wednesday reintroduced a controversial bill that would allow private companies and the federal government to share private security information related to cyber threats. In a bipartisan effort, Michigan...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday granted class action status to a lawsuit brought to stop the New York Police Department (NYPD) from...
