The US Senate voted 51-46 on Monday, stopping the advancement of a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The House approved the bill in October in a 237-189 vote. The bill , entitled the...

Human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng was reportedly charged Saturday with "inciting subversion of state officials" after writing a letter calling for reform to China's constitution. Yu was arrested outside his home in Beijing nearly two weeks ago for...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied review of a Board of Immigrant Appeals (BIA) case on Monday, reasoning that alien minors do not have a constitutional right to court-appointed counsel. The court ruled [opinion,...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Sudanese government on Monday to immediately release peaceful protesters from detention or grant them full due process. The demonstrators were arrested while protesting Sudan's 2018 budget, which triples the...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized the government of Sri Lanka on Monday for not repealing its "Draconian" counterterrorism law. HRW accused the government of using the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to arbitrarily detain...

A UK judge ruled Monday that life sustaining medical treatment is not in the best interest of a severely disabled 11-month-old boy and that doctors could withdraw his life support without the consent of his parents. Isiah was...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Friday that it will maintain restrictions on the proposed Pebble Limited Partnership mining project in Alaska's Bristol Bay region, reversing its prior decision. In 2014, the EPA issued a Clean...

A federal judge ruled Friday that a class action lawsuit may proceed against Applebee's for its mandatory minimum tip policy. US District Judge Paul Oetken of US District Court for the Southern District of New York ...

The Federal Court of Malaysia on Monday unanimously voided the unilateral conversion of three children to Islam without their mother's consent, requiring the consent of both parents to change a minor's religion. The decision ends...

New York and Minnesota filed a lawsuit on Friday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to block the Trump administration from cutting off federal funding to state programs that provide...