Iowa Governor Terry Branstad on Thursday signed legislation expanding gun rights in the state. House File 517 gives gun owners the ability to defend themselves in public and preventing local governments from implementing...

Over two dozen US insurance companies associated with Travelers Companies initiated a lawsuit on Wednesday against ten defendants over the September 11 terrorist attacks, including companies affiliated with Osama bin Laden's family, Saudi banks and several charities....

US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bill into law that scales back an Obama administration regulation that protected certain federal funds for organizations that provide abortions, including Planned Parenthood . The new law...

The Lok Sabha chamber of Indian parliament approved a bill Tuesday to provide for the prevention and control of HIV and AIDS as well as to protect the human rights of affected persons. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus...

Hundreds of detainees at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington began a hunger strike on Monday . According to NWDC Resistance , an advocacy group for undocumented immigrants, prior to the beginning...

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled on Monday that the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe has exercised sufficient governmental power to meet the requirements of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) , which would...

Human Rights Watch issued a report on Tuesday saying California's bail system pressures the poor into pleading guilty in order to be released from jail. The group said tens of thousands of Californians have been held for...

The state of Hawaii, in a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's travel ban, requested on Tuesday that the entire Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sit for review of the case. Hawaii is requesting the en banc...

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday announced his office has mandated immigration enforcement as a priority. In order to limit the number of undocumented immigrants in the country, the Department of Justice (DOJ) ...

Legislators in Maryland on Monday withdrew a bill proposing to make Maryland a so-called "sanctuary state." The purpose of the bill was to "prohibiting a specified government agent from taking specified actions for immigration enforcement purposes."...