North Korea's high court on Wednesday sentenced an American student to 15 years of imprisonment and hard labor following his conviction for subversion. The University of Virginia student, Otto Warmbier, confessed in a press conference held last month by...

A second Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice resigned Tuesday over of a growing scandal that involves hundreds of offensive e-mails. Justice Michael Eakin is the second justice to retire after Justice Seamus McCaffery retired immediately after being suspended...

Brazil's Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it had accepted a plea agreement offered by prosecutors in a case against Senator Delcídio do Amaral for his alleged involvement in a recent corruption...

The UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky presented reports to the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday finding that economic inequality has a negative impact on financial crises and undermines human...

A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed Monday accusing the city of Los Angeles of endangering homeless people. The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles , alleges that the city has...

A federal judge filed an order on Monday for attorneys to submit arguments as to whether the court system has standing to decide if Mississippi should remove the Confederate battle emblem that as been on the state flag...

UN experts on Tuesday concluded that a Russian woman suffered gender-based discrimination when she was denied employment at the helm of a boat. Svetlana Medvedeva was selected by a private company after graduating as a navigation officer to...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Executive Director Kenneth Roth on Tuesday expressed concern over the EU Joint Action Plan with Turkey, urging EU leaders to reject proposed elements due their "disturbing disregard for international law covering...

A conference of religious groups and political parties convened by the Jamaat-e-Islami party asked the Pakistani government on Tuesday to retract a new "un-Islamic" law that provides protections for female victims of abuse. The Women's...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas issued a preliminary injunction on Monday blocking Arkansas from enforcing its abortion pill restrictions. Arkansas passed Act 577 in March...