The US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Thursday ruled that the United States Department of Labor overstepped its authority when it increased the minimum salary level for exempt employees from...
Kenya's Supreme Court ruled 4-2 Friday to invalidate the recent presidential election. President Uhuru Kenyatta was reelected after winning 54 percent of the votes in the recent election, which was held on August 8. The petition [text,...
Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly on Tuesday approved a decree rejecting the US economic sanctions and called for treason investigations into political actors for supporting the sanctions. The decree was passed unanimously [BBC report by the ANC....
US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on Tuesday released a statement declaring that a panel will be established to determine how to implement President Donald Trump's "Military and Service by Transgender Individuals" Presidential Memorandum and...
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) requested that the US government, high-level politicians and public officials "unequivocally and unconditionally reject and condemn racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and throughout the...
Missouri Governor Eric Greitens issued a stay of execution for Marcellus Williams who was scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. Williams was sentenced to death in 2001 after being convicted of the first-degree murder...
Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong confessed at a trial on Tuesday to attempting to overthrow the Chinese government. Jiang has been in custody since November of last year. At the trial, he stated that Western laws led...
The Supreme Court of India ruled Tuesday that Islam's instant divorce law, which allowed Muslim men to divorce their wives by saying the word "talaq" three times, was unconstitutional. The case was heard by five judges...
The Texas House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill that would prohibit health insurance plans from providing coverage for elective abortions. An elective abortion is defined as one in which the mother is not in danger of...
Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly (ANC) created a Commission for Truth, Justice and Public Legitimacy on Tuesday. The ANC is tasked with rewriting Venezuela's constitution. The ANC has previously passed a decree which declared that...
