Negotiations between Iran and six world powers concluded in a nuclear agreement on Tuesday. The JCPOA outlines details of the agreement, in which Iran agreed not to create a nuclear bomb in...

US President Barack Obama on Monday granted commuted sentences to 46 drug offenders in what he said was part of an effort by his administration to remedy the unfairness of the criminal justice system. In...

The US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina on Monday began hearing a challenge complaint, PDF; Advancement Project materials] to a North Carolina law limiting early voting and same-day voter registration. The...

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley signed into law a bill on Thursday to remove the Confederate flag from the state's legislature. The South Carolina Senate approved the bill Tuesday...

The Obama administration on Wednesday announced new rules requiring cities and towns to address racial disparities in their housing practices. The new rules, announced at a press conference in Chicago by Secretary Julian Castro...

A US district court on Wednesday sentenced former North Carolina State Assembly member Stephen Laroque to 24 months in prison for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a non-profit he ran. Last January Laroque...

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday set the execution dates of three inmates who had previously challenged the use of the drug that will be used in their lethal injections. This...

California lawmakers on Tuesday ended their legislative efforts to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives in the state. The right-to-die bill had been amended several times over the past half year. The law...

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday upheld a 75-year-long policy prohibiting individuals, corporations or firms working under federal contracts from contributing to the campaigns of federal candidates, parties...

A group of leading computer scientists at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT on Monday published a paper criticizing the US and UK governments for seeking the redesign of internet systems...