The New York Police Department (NYPD) came to a settlement agreement on Thursday in two civil rights lawsuits accusing the NYPD of wrongfully monitoring Muslims after the 9/11 attacks. In October the US Court of Appeals for...

A federal court in Ohio on Tuesday sentenced Serbian refugee Slobodan Mutic to two years in prison for lying on immigration forms about his participation in ethnic cleansing and genocide in the former Yugoslavia. A spokesperson for...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the Chinese authorities to release 38 lawyers and activists associated with the Beijing Fengrui Law Firm who have been held in "designated residential surveillance" since July. Designated Residential...

Venezuela's National Assembly swore in three opposition deputies on Tuesday despite a Supreme Court ruling that barred the induction of the elected lawmakers. The ruling suspended four elected lawmakers for...

Alabama chief justice Roy Moore on Wednesday instructed state judges not to issue same-sex marriage licenses . The Alabama Supreme Court had ruled in March that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is legal, and Moore's...

Guatemalan prosecutors arrested 17 former military and government officials on Wednesday on charges of committing massacres and other human rights abuses during the Guatemalan civil war. Government security forces have been blamed for the vast majority of the...

Polish President Andrzej Duda on Thursday signed a controversial media control bill into law. Under the new law, the treasury minister will replace the National Broadcasting...

Two Yemeni men captured in Afghanistan and detained at Guantanamo Bay for 14 years have been released to Ghana, officials said Wednesday. These two are among the 17 detainees scheduled for release this month . The men...

TransCanda on Wednesday brought a lawsuit against the US Government in federal court challenging President Barack Obama's decision to reject the expansion of the Keystone pipeline. TransCanada filed its suit in the US District Court for the...

The US Congress on Wednesday sent a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to President Barrack Obama . The repeal bill is one of the first pieces of legislation against the ACA to...