Property owners in Harris County, Houston filed a class action lawsuit against the federal government on Tuesday for releasing water from the Barker and Addicks reservoirs after Hurricane Harvey, causing flooding in their homes and businesses. The...

Four UN human rights experts on Tuesday called on China to release a prominent human rights lawyer who has been detained since November 2016. The lawyer, Jiang Tianyong, is being tried for inciting subversion of the state's power....

Brazil's Attorney General Rodrigo Janot announced Tuesday that former Brazilian presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, along with other senior members of the Worker's Party, were being charged [indictment,...

A group of 15 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the Trump administration's decision to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) program. DACA provides protection...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on the government of Myanmar Tuesday to grant nationality, or at least legal status, to the Rohingya Muslim minority group that resides in the Rakhine State of Myanmar. Myanmar's security forces...

A number of prominent Republicans on Monday and filed amicus briefs imploring the Supreme Court to end gerrymandering. The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford on October 3. Prominent politicians who filed briefs...

The European Court of Justice on Wednesday ruled that Slovakia and Hungary must host asylum seekers as a part of the EU migration policy . Slovakia and Hungary filed a complaint arguing that it was...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday stayed an injunction that had blocked the Texas voter ID law , allowing its implementation. The injunction was put in place ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday condemned both China's oppression of critics of the nation's human rights record and the UN's failure to stop such conduct. The report alleges that, "China has worked consistently and often...

US President https://www.donaldjtrump.com/">Donald Trump's campaign attorney Michael Carvin filed a brief on Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia asking the court to dismiss a lawsuit that...