New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order Wednesday that grants 35,000 paroled felons the right to vote. The governor issued the order by invoking Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution of the...
A Stuttgart Public Prosecutor brought charges Monday in a district court in Mannheim against a 94-year-old former Schutzstaffel (SS) guard of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp for aiding and abetting the murders committed in the camp. The man,...
The United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) Appeals Chamber on Wednesday reversed the acquittal of Vojislav Šešelj by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and convicted him for...
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Monday vetoed Virginia House Bill 1257 , which would have banned so-called "sanctuary cities." The bill would have prohibited cities and municipalities from implementing any policy that "restricts the enforcement of...
The Arizona Supreme Court issued an order Monday denying in-state tuition for individuals who benefit from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The Court reviewed the case brought from the Arizona Court of...
The Suffolk County Superior Court in Massachusetts released a decision Wednesday, denying Equifax a motion to dismiss and allowing the commonwealth to move forward in its lawsuit against Equifax for its data breach . Equifax sought to...
The Missouri House of Representatives approved a bill on Tuesday that would ban abortions occurring 20 weeks after fertilization. House Bill 1266, known as the "Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," was sponsored by Republican House...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday denied Saudi Arabia's motion to dismiss a lawsuit for involvement in the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Victims and families...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a memorandum announcing his decision not to extend the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) protection for Liberians that had been in place since the 1990s. In the memo, Trump justified this action...
The Neumünster District Court (Amtsgericht Neumünster) ruled Monday to detain exiled Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont , pending a decision by the Higher Regional Court. Puigdemont had declared Catalonia's independence from Spain...
