Ireland's cabinet on Friday agreed to join Apple in appealing the European Commission's €13 billion ruling against the tech giant. The commission's ruling, issued in late August, determined that Ireland granted...
US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday formally committed their nations to the Paris Agreement , a pact seeking to reduce carbon emissions and halt climate change. The world's first comprehensive climate pact,...
The Egyptian Parliament on Tuesday passed a new law regulating church building, purportedly to support the nation's Christian minority. Church building has long been contentious in Egypt, where only a tenth of...
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday granted clemency to 111 non-violent criminal offenders, including 35 federal offenders serving life sentences. These new grants of clemency bring Obama's total to 673, including 325 in the month...
Baltimore City Police Lieutenant Brian Rice on Monday was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office in connection with Freddie Gray's arrest and death on April 12, 2015. Rice was the highest-ranking of...
A group of international human rights experts, including UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan E. Méndez, on Monday called on states worldwide to adopt the Revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners . Also...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Husky International Electronics, Inc. v. Ritz that "actual fraud," as it relates to the discharge of debt under the bankruptcy code, may be committed by purposeful...
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam on Wednesday announced that he signed into law a bill allowing therapists to refuse to treat patients based on religious objections, when that patient's "goals, outcomes or behaviors" conflict with...
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison on bank fraud charges relating to his payment of hush money to alleged sexual abuse victims. In Judge Thomas Durkin's federal district courtroom, Hastert admitted...
Civil rights lawyer Ni Yulan told Western media Monday that the Chinese government has put her under house arrest, presumably for her work as an advocate for citizens being evicted to make way for development. Foreign diplomats...
