The Department of Justice announced Wednesday settlement with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on reforms to LA prisons in an attempt to improve care for mentally ill inmates. The agreement comes after a series of...
Israeli rights group Shurat HaDin Law Center and two dozen Americans filed a lawsuit Wednesday in an attempt to block the Obama administration from releasing an estimated $100 billion in frozen Iranian funds. The plaintiffs hold...
A federal judge in Alaska ruled Thursday that Greenpeace USA will be fined $2,500 for every hour that protesters block a Royal Dutch Shell vessel from leaving Portland. The protesters have been suspending themselves from a...
Greece's parliament on Thursday passed a second set of economic reforms with an overwhelming 230-63 majority vote. Greece's creditors asked that the second set of economic overhauls be passed before they began negotiations for the aid...
The Migration Policy Institute released a report on Thursday finding that the Obama administration's new policies that will protect up to 87 percent of undocumented immigrants in the United States from facing deportation. The report stated that...
After suicide bombings last Sunday in Fotokol by two women wearing burkas, Northern Cameroon on Wednesday banned women from wearing burkas and face-covering veils. The suicide bombers smuggled the bombs into public areas by hiding them under their veils. The...
Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday asked for the court's prosecutor to review her decision not to investigate the 2010 Israeli raid of a flotilla headed for the Gaza Strip. Review of the...
India's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the country's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to open an investigation into the deaths of a number of people connected to a college admission and government job recruitment scandal. The...
Officials from South Korea's National Intelligence Service said on Thursday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has unleashed a "reign of terror" in North Korea by executing more than 90 officials since taking power in 2011....
The US Justice Department Office of Community Oriented Policing Service (COPS) has found that the response by the Ferguson, Missouri police department escalated riots after Michael Brown's death last summer. The findings were in a draft report [St....
