On Thursday UNSMIL chief Ghassan Salamé suggested to the United Nations Security Council that a joint tribunal should be considered to try individuals suspected of war crimes in Libya. In the speech to the Security...
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UNSMIL Chief calls for joint tribunal over Libyan war crimes
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Appeals court denies Homeland Security petition to overturn lower court’s DACA ruling
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AI finds war crimes and violations in the Philippines
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House approves tax reform bill
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Chief judge of EU Kosovo mission resigns alleging corruption
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Russia lawmakers approve foreign media law
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Transgender woman sues Massachusetts Department of Corrections for treatment in male prison
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LGBT Activist files federal lawsuit challenging Tennessee therapist law
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Federal judge orders changes to St. Louis police protocol toward protesters
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Keystone Crossroads tours “one of the nation’s most gerrymandered” congressional districts
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday denied the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) petition seeking to put a hold on a district court's order requiring the DHS to...
Amnesty International (AI) on Friday released a report detailing humanitarian crisis incidents that may amount to war crimes in the Philippines. The report is titled ‘The Battle of Marawi’: Death and destruction in...
The US House of Representatives approved HR 1 , a bill which will overhaul the US tax code, by a vote of 227-205 on Thursday. The bill proposes a $1.5 trillion dollar tax cut...
The chief judge of the EU's rule of law mission in Kosovo, Malcom Simmons, resigned Thursday over frustrations with corruption, he alleged in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde. The mission, known as EULEX, exists...
Russia's State Duma , the lower house of parliament, voted unanimously Thursday to require foreign media organizations to label their materials as the work of...
An unnamed transgender woman being held in an all-male prison in Massachusetts filed suit Wednesday alleging unfair treatment. The lawsuit, filed by GLAD Legal Advocates and Defenders in the US District Court for the District of...
An LGBT rights activist filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging a Tennessee law that allows counselors to refuse to serve clients based on religious views. The law, signed in April 2016 by Tennessee Governor...
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri issued an order Wednesday placing restrictions on how the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department may interact with protesters. The order states that the City of...
PennLive's Wallace McKelvey tours Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District, calling it "one of the nation's most gerrymandered." The Seventh spans a wide swath of southeastern Pennsylvania, from the Delaware border in to the suburbs outside Reading. While we're talking about the...
