The Texas Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that would effectively ban so-called sanctuary cities, requiring cities to be in compliance with federal immigration law. SB 4 would require law enforcement in cities and on college campuses to hold...

The High Court of Kenya ruled Thursday that a government order to close the world's largest refugee camp is unconstitutional. Dadaab, a camp to more than 200,000 people, would have been forced to shut down and send its...

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'...