On Thursday the Montana House of Representatives introduced HB 536 which would allow homicide charges to be brought against doctors engaged in physician-assisted suicide. This legislation would run against the current policy of the State of...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) passed a resolution on Friday announcing a national boycott of North Carolina. The NAACP asked other organizations, artists, religious groups, and sports leagues to follow suit and...

Two sources with contacts in the Trump administration suggested Saturday that the US might be considering leaving the UN Human Rights Council . One source explained that several requests had come from the US State Department regarding the Council,...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) requested the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday to hold court proceedings relating to President Donald Trump's executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations. The motion...

The US Supreme Court asked both sides of the Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. case on Thursday to submit letters to the court discussing "how the case should proceed in light of" the...

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo made public Thursday that rescinds an Obama administration memo calling for the phasing out of the Department of Justice (DOJ) use of private prisons....

A Volkswagen (VW) executive pleaded not guilty in the wake of VW's emissions scandal. Oliver Schmidt, the former general manager of VW's environmental and engineering office, was arrested in Miami last month and charged with conspiracy...

The Illinois State Board of Education voted on Thursday to approve a settlement of a lawsuit claiming discriminatory school funding. The vote resolved litigation over the Chicago Urban League's (CUL) 2008 lawsuit claiming [Daily...

North Carolina lawmakers filed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday aimed at breaking the impasse over the state's so-called "bathroom bill" (HB2) that requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that correspond to the sex listed...

The US Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit on Thursday ruled that Texas can enforce a 2015 state law that criminalizes the harboring of illegal immigrants. Texas officials had claimed the law, known as House...