A group of Israeli and American citizens filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday seeking $1 billion in damages from Facebook for allegedly facilitating...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Monday announced the transfer of two Guantanamo detainees to Serbia. Yemeni detainee Mansur Ahmad Saad al-Dayfi and Tajik detainee Muhammadi Davlatov were transferred to Serbia after extensive review. The...

Apple agreed on Friday to a $25 million settlement with Network-1 Technologies to end a patent infringement claim. The claim involved U.S. Patent No. 6,006,227 (227 Patent) , a "document stream operating system" that organizes files...

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed a bill (S.2407) into law on Friday protecting against discrimination on the basis of gender identity. The bill was passed earlier in the week by both houses of...

Ten additional states, including Nebraska, Michigan and Ohio, have filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration for its directive for schools to allow transgender to use the restroom correlating to their gender identity. The Obama administration, through...

In a 63-30 vote, the US Senate approved legislation Thursday requiring food packaging to display genetically-modified organism (GMO) contents using words, pictures or scannable bar codes. If passed in the House , this law would...

The Massachusetts Legislature on Thursday sent a transgender anti-discrimination bill to Governor Charlie Baker . The bill , which many believe will be signed into law, will provide protections to transgender people in places of...

The US Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Louisiana on Wednesday announced an investigation into the recent police killing of a black man, Alton Sterling, which was recorded on video. Sterling was shot and killed...

The Obama administration imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Wednesday, taking the unusual step of placing the country's leader Kim Jong Un and 10 other officials on a blacklist for human rights abusers. The sanctions would bar...

FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that he is not recommending that the Department of Justice bring criminal charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Comey stated that while Clinton was...