A 49-year old Liberian national and resident of East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, Mohammed Jabbateh, was indicted in Philadelphia on Wednesday on two counts of immigration fraud and two counts of perjury for failing to disclose his crimes...

US Secretary of State John Kerry released the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2015 on Wednesday, pointing to "a global governance crisis" in is prefatory statement. The secretary cited the "accelerating trend by both state and...

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday ruled that obtaining phone location records without a warrant was not a violation of the Fourth Amendment . The FBI obtained cellphone locations of...

A Chicago task force assigned by Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday issued a report finding that racism has caused systematic failures within the city's police department. The report includes statistics illustrating how African Americans are...

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Wednesday signed an executive order that creates a new anti-discrimination law intended to protect members of the LGBT community. Prior to signing the executive order, there was...

Panamanian prosecutors for organized crime raided the Panamanian office of international law firm Mossack Fonseca on Tuesday, seeking evidence of money laundering and financing terrorism in relation to the recent Panama Papers scandal. Mossack Fonseca has...

Georgia officials executed Kenneth Fults Tuesday after the US Supreme Court Tuesday denied the application for stay of execution. His attorney argued that the jury which sentenced Fults, an African American man,...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern on Wednesday over reports coming out of the Republic of Congo regarding an apparent Government security operation in an area...

A New Jersey administrative law judge, Jeff Masin, ruled on Tuesday that presidential hopeful Ted Cruz is a natural-born citizen of the US and is thus eligible to be placed on the New Jersey primary ticket....

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Court ruled Tuesday that the district court must review Wisconsin's voter ID law to determine whether broad application constitutes an equal protection violation. The law ...