The US Supreme Court said Friday that it will hold a hearing regarding a constitutional test for a new congressional districting map for Virginia. The case, Wittman v. Personhuballah , involves the 3rd congressional...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that it has reached an agreement with Alabama, under which Alabama has committed to comply with US laws requiring motor vehicle agencies to register eligible voters. More specifically,...

The US Senate approved the US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act on Tuesday, granting US citizens the right to legally claim natural resources mined in space. The Act is intended to facilitate a pro-growth environment for the developing...

A federal judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas ruled against Thursday that a nativity scene on Baxter County Courthouse grounds violates the First Amendment. The lawsuit was filed by the American...

Luis Segovia, a veteran and former resident of Illinois who now lives in Guam, filed a complaint on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois claiming the laws affording residents of certain...

The West Jakarta District Court of Indonesia sentenced two drug smugglers to death after the National Narcotics Agency found them trafficking methamphetamine into the country. The 1,900 pound shipment was the largest quantity of meth ever confiscated in Indonesia,...

The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the political violence and killings currently afflicting Burundi. The violence began in the wake of President Pierre Nkurunziza announcing that he would seek a...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday reversed a lower court decision that had held that California's death penalty system was unconstitutional . The appeals court held that the excessive...

The Ukrainian Parliament approved a resolution Thursday that recognizes the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 as genocide. On May 18, 1944, under orders from Josef Stalin, more than 180,000 indigenous people were...

Recent state-drive reforms within China's judicial system have failed to cease the practice of torturing suspects in order to force confessions, according to a report released Wednesday by Amnesty International (AI) . Since 2010, the Chinese government...