Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta signed a controversial law Monday that may impact the August elections. The law enables a paper recount of votes in the event that the electronic systems fail. Though a victory for the majority Jubilee...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky Monday challenging new abortion requirements. The filing challenges House Bill 2 , a law...
US District Judge Reed O'Connor, of the Northern District of Texas , issued an injunction on Saturday barring enforcement of anti-discrimination provisions concerning transgender health and abortion in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The injunction comes one day...
Kim Jong-un, leader of North Korea, announced in his Sunday New Year's address that the country is in the final stage of preparations to test-launch an intercontinental ballistic rocket. Though North Korea has tested numerous missiles this year ,...
Police killings in India continue to go unpunished, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report Monday. Citing India's National Crime Records Bureau , the report states that 591 people died in police custody in the...
An Israeli parole board ruled Sunday that former president Moshe Katsav will be released after serving five years of his seven-year sentence for rape. After failing earlier this year to gain release, Katsav is...
The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Monday sentenced fugitive Idris Ali Sardar to death for war crimes during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. The ICTB held the trial in absentia, listing Sardar as "absconded" in...
Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other women's groups filed suits Wednesday challenging abortion laws in Alaska , Missouri and North Carolina . Citing 42 USC § 1983 , which provides a means of attaining injunctive...
The Green Party filed a lawsuit on Monday in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania contesting the presidential election results tallied on November 8. The claim offers as grounds for its motion news articles from the...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday reported that police at the Standing Rock site in North Dakota have used life-threatening weapons to control protesters over the last two days. The ACLU reports that tear...
