The National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting less than 30 percent of all Americans' phone records due to the inability to keep up with the increased use of cellular phones, according to disclosures made by current and...

On Friday, a group of police unions filed a motion to block Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposed settlement and removal of former mayor Michael Bloomberg's appeal of the stop and frisk policy. The motion was...

Merck & Co. agreed to pay $100 million to settle thousands of lawsuits concerning Merck's NuvaRing contraceptive device. The lawsuits allege that NuvaRing potentially causes fatal blood clots. The settlement will provide an...

US President Barack Obama signed into law on Friday a $956 billion farm bill providing expanded crop insurance and other benefits for the agricultural sector. The bill passed the Senate [New York Times...

France's State Council , the country's top administrative court, ruled on Friday that Google must display press release] on its French page that it has been fined by the local data-protection watchdog for how...

UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights , Farida Shaheed announced Friday that she will launch a new study on how marketing and advertising affect cultural rights. Shaheed plans to focus her...

UN officials on Wednesday called for an end to female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) , a practice that still threatens millions of girls worldwide. A statement from Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin , Executive...

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that cities may not pass ordinances that conflict with the state's five-year-old medical marijuana law . John Ter Beek, a resident of Wyoming, Michigan, challenged ...

The National Network of Congolese Human Rights NGOs on Wednesday a new Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) law providing amnesty for acts of war committed as far back as 2006. After more than three weeks of...

Germany's Constitutional Court on Friday referred the case against the European Central Bank's (ECB) bond-buying plan, called Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT), to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) . The ruling...