The US Supreme Court ruled 5-3 Monday in Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado that a juror's racial bias creates an exception to the no-impeachment rule that limits the second-guessing of jury verdicts. The rule is designed...

The US Supreme Court on Monday vacated a lower court ruling in a case concerning transgender restroom policies following a move by the Trump administration to rescind guidelines that school districts should allow students to...

Bahrain's justice ministry filed a lawsuit on Monday to dissolve an opposition group because of its threat to security. According to the ministry, the National Democratic Action Society, or Waad, had committed serious violations contrary to...

Hearings began on Monday in a case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) , with Ukraine asking the ICJ to bar Russia from "any action which might aggravate" the contentious border conflict between the two nations....

The US State Department on Friday released its annual report on the current human rights situation across the world. This report has been published annually since the mid-1970s and has usually been accompanied by a press conference,...

In response to the mass execution of 15 people in Jordan on Saturday, several human rights groups, including Amnesty International (AI) , condemned the hanging as being secretive and conducted "without transparency. This mass execution was...

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday rebuffed calls for international judges to participate in the country's war crimes tribunals. The president, who has been suspicious of war crimes allegations raised by the Tamil...

UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz called Friday for the US to adopt a consistent approach to indigenous land rights in pipeline projects. The Special Rapporteur was concerned about how...

The Utah House of Representatives passed an alcohol reform bill on Friday aimed at removing what is referred to as the "Zion Curtain," a 7-foot-tall barrier, shielding children from watching drinks being mixed in restaurants. The bill, HB442...

Facebook settled a class-action lawsuit levied against it on Wednesday for its prior practice of scanning private messages to aid in ads. A motion was filed on Wednesday, subject to court approval, for declaratory and injunctive...