The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a case concerning whether a county board of commissioners in North Carolina violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by opening their public...
An Algerian court on Monday sentenced former Guantanamo Bay detainee Abdul Aziz Naji to three years in prison for his participation in a foreign extremist group affiliated with al Qaeda. The sentence was less...
The New Jersey Legislature passed an amendment to a bill on Monday that establishes a one-year ban on a natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking . Legislators re-introduced...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking the release of videotapes of the interrogation of an inmate held at the Guantanamo Bay prison . The CCR filed the...
Myanmar President Thein Sein signed a clemency order on Monday that shortens sentences for many prisoners on humanitarian grounds in celebration of Myanmar's independence day. The presidential order commuted death sentences to life imprisonment , reduced...
US President Barack Obama on Saturday signed the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 (NDAA) into law despite having reservations over certain provisions in the bill. The contentious legislation contains a clause that...
The Egyptian government agreed on Friday to cease its crackdowns on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that advocate for democracy in Egypt, according to the US Department of State (DOS) . Egyptian officials assured the US that it...
The Montana Supreme Court ruled on Friday to uphold a restriction on corporate independent expenditures related to state political campaigns and candidates. In the case, Western Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Montana, the high court affirmed...
A group of Attorneys General representing 24 US states and territories filed an amicus brief with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday arguing that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon issued a statement on Friday, chastising both the government of President Bashar al-Assad and violent protesters regarding the continuous bloodshed in Syria. Approximately 44 people [Al...
