A judge for the US District Court for the District of Wyoming ruled Tuesday that the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) "lacked Congressional authority to promulgate" regulations concerning fracking...

US President Barack Obama signed legislation Wednesday granting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate thousands of everyday substances. The law makes major changes to the Toxic Substance Control...

A lawsuit is accusing a Louisiana judge of running a modern-day debtors' prison. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center , alleges that Judge Robert Black is sending poor defendants to jail when they...

A court in Cairo on Tuesday invalidated the Egyptian president's decision to give sovereignty over two islands to Saudi Arabia. In April President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi transferred sovereignty of Tiran and Sanafir islands in the Red Sea to...

Germany's top court ruled Tuesday that a bond-buy program created by the European Central Bank (ECB) complies with German law. The unlimited bond-buying program was created at the height of Europe's debt crisis. The...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday sentenced ex-Congolese military leader Jean-Pierre Bemba to 18 years in jail for crimes against humanity and war crimes stemming from his involvement in the conflict in...

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Utah v. Strieff that evidence seized incident to a lawful arrest on an outstanding warrant is not excluded because that warrant was discovered during an unlawful stop....

The US Supreme Court upheld several provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) on Monday. In Cuozzo Speed Technologies v. Lee the court heard arguments on whether the Patent Trial and...

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Encino Motorcars v. Navarro that it could not rely on the Department of Labor's (DOL) interpretation of a statute on overtime pay, sending the case back to...

Human rights abuses against the Rohingya in Myanmar may amount to crimes against humanity, according to a report released Monday by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) . The report documents [Al...