The Mississippi House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday that would allow execution by firing squad, nitrogen gas or electrocution if the current method of execution, lethal injection, is deemed unconstitutional by a court....

African nations should not abandon the International Criminal Court (ICC) , UN Special Adviser Adama Dieng urged in an editorial Monday. Dieng, the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, wrote in...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Wednesday rejected a challenge by the US Chamber of Commerce to a rule governing retirement investment advice. The regulation requires...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday issued an order to enjoin the proposed merger of health insurance giant Anthem and Cigna . The US Department of Justice...

The UK House of Commons voted 494-122 Wednesday to approve HC Bill 132 , which would empower Prime Minister Theresa May to formally begin the Brexit process. The House of Commons completed its first reading...

The Pennsylvania Senate on Wednesday approved SB 3 , putting Pennsylvania in line to become the seventeenth state to pass a bill banning abortions past 20 weeks. The bill passed the Senate by a 32-18 vote, leaving...

Israel-based advocacy groups Legal Center for Arab Rights and the Jerusalem Center for Human Rights and Legal Aid asked the Israeli Supreme Court Wednesday to review a new law that retroactively legalizes some 4,000 settlements in...

US Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) was confirmed as Attorney General by a 52 to 47 vote on Wednesday, bringing to a close a contentious confirmation process. The committee hearing on his nomination included testimony on Sessions'...

A coalition of advocacy groups filed suit in federal court Monday to challenge a Trump administration executive order aimed at reducing federal regulations. Public Citizen, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the union Communications Workers of America...

The Sri Lankan Foreign Minster said Wednesday that the country will petition the UN for more time to investigate the allegations of war crimes occurring during the country's 26-year-long civil war . Sri Lanka...