The US Supreme Court on Friday ruled 8-1 in Johnson v. United States that increasing sentences on certain felons found in illegal possession of a firearm under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)...
The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 5-4 in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project that Texas's biggest housing subsidy has been reinforcing segregated housing. The project...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday warned of the record high number of refugees around the world as a result of increasing global conflicts. According to data collected by the UNHCR...
Amnesty International urged Cameroon Friday to end the six month detention of 84 children being held after a raid on Quranic schools. AI reports that some of the children were as young as five years old. The...
Amnesty International said Thursday that all 50 US states fall below international standards on police use of lethal force. The report indicates that many states have no regulation on police use of lethal force or...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday invited Yemen President Abd Rabou Mansour Hadi to send a delegation to the UN sponsored Yemen consultation set to begin in Geneva on June 14th. The Secretary General...
A Saudi court on Sunday upheld blogger Raif Badawi's sentence of 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for "insulting Islam through electronic channels." The blogger ran The Liberal Saudi Network for 4 years before being arrested by Saudi...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Friday upheld a French court's decision allowing Vincent Lambert the right to die, stating it did not violate article 2 of European Convention on Human...
The California Senate on Thursday voted 23-14 to approve a controversial right to die bill . The bill would protect doctors who aide individuals with terminal conditions in dying. The bill's impact is limited to...
Egyptian authorities on Saturday freed Egyptian-American prisoner Mohammed Soltan, who had been sentenced to life in prison and had been on a hunger strike for over a year. As a precondition to Soltan's release, he had to renounce his...
