UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and League of Arab States Secretary-General Nabil El Araby on Friday called on warring parties in Syria to stop violence and order a ceasefire during the Muslim holiday of...
Amnesty International (AI) on Friday urged the government of Gambia to allow time for seven men facing execution to make the maximum use of the appellate process after the Gambia Supreme Court upheld...
US President Barack Obama's campaign staff and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday urged the US Supreme Court to reject Ohio's request for an emergency stay of an injunction against...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin , in which the plaintiff is challenging the constitutionality of the university's affirmative action program....
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona held a hearing on Friday at the request of Planned Parenthood Arizona (PPA) to determine whether, under an Arizona law prohibiting...
A registered sex offender filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of California last week challenging ordinances in four Orange County cities that ban registered sex offenders from city-owned parks, campgrounds and other...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in two cases. In Johnson v. Williams the court heard arguments on whether a state court can "adjudicate on the merits"...
Canadian citizen Omar Khadr was transferred to Canada from Guantanamo Bay early Saturday morning to serve out the rest of his prison sentence under the authority of...
A judge for the US District Court of the District of Columbia on Friday remanded a rule that would have limited positions on derivatives for 28 commodities, saying that the US Commodity Futures Trading...
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday issued an executive order to strengthen the federal government's zero-tolerance policy for contracting with groups and individuals involved in human trafficking. The order requires the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR) ...
