Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Thursday introduced a constitutional amendment that would exclude a corporation's First Amendment rights to spend money on political campaigns. Named the Saving American Democracy Amendment the proposal would make...

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley announced Friday that he would work with House Speaker Mike Hubbard and Senate President Pro Tempore Del Marsh to make Alabama's new immigration law more effective....

A Ukrainian court on Thursday ordered the indefinite arrest of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko despite the chance that her current seven-year sentence may still be overturned, drawing international criticism. Because Tymoshenko...

The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to rule on three Texas redistricting plans. The emergency appeal challenges an interim map drawn up by the US District Court for the Western District of Texas while...

The Croatian government signed a treaty Friday to finalize its accession into the European Union . Croatia will now officially become the twenty-eighth member of the EU in 2013. The signing ceremony consisted of speeches...

Two Japanese whaling groups filed suit Friday against US-based anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington . The Institute of Cetacean Research...

Former Yugoslav intelligence officer Dragomir Pecanac was convicted Friday on a charge of contempt for failing to testify before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . The charges were...

A lesbian couple filed suit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Hawaii challenging the state's denial of same-sex marriage . Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie (D) signed [JURIST...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments Thursday on two consolidated issues regarding Proposition 8 , California's same-sex marriage ban. The first was an appeal from...

UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights , James Anaya , on Thursday urged Argentina to strengthen protection of human rights, rights to education and land ownership for indigenous groups as well as to establish sorely needed dialogue...