Texas agreed to a deal Wednesday that will weaken their voter identification law and allow voters to cast ballots in the November election even if they lack all documents required by the law. The agreement will require Texas...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation Wednesday that would legalize daily fantasy sports in New York state. The law, SB 8153 , serves to legalize forms of daily fantasy sports, like Draft Kings, while...

A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on Thursday dismissed a suit filed by suspended Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore against the Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) . The...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said Thursday that South Sudan government (SPLA) security forces have killed and raped citizens and looted and destroyed public and private property. The rights chief called on the UN Security...

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday that Australia is ignoring inhumane treatment of refugees on the South Pacific island of Nauru in the hopes of deterring additional refugees from traveling to Australia. Individuals caught trying to travel...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his concern for the human rights violations faced by the Yazidi minority in Northern Iraq on Wednesday, stating that actions of the Islamic State (IS) may amount to genocide. Two years ago the...

US President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 214 federal inmates on Thursday, the most at one time during his presidency. Sixty-seven of the inmates whose sentences were commuted were serving life sentences for non-violent drug...

Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland arrived in Turkey Wednesday to meet with a variety of Turkish, including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, urging respect for the rule of law....

A report released on Sunday by the Kaduna State Government stated, among other things, that "he force used by the Nigerian Army resulting in the death of the 349 IMN members was disproportionate" and called...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday announced a new process for selecting Supreme Court justices that will allow all qualified individuals to apply for the position. Trudeau stated that, "or the first time, any...