UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston warned Friday that "he American Dream is rapidly becoming the American Illusion as the US ... now has the lowest rate of social mobility of any of the...

Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The legal world is a busy place. In the midst of a growing and devastating opioid epidemic, officials in Lorain County, Ohio, filed a lawsuit in the Lorain...

In the midst of a growing and devastating opioid epidemic, officials in Lorain County, Ohio, filed a lawsuit in the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas Friday against 25 large drug companies and distributors of opioids...

The legal world is a busy place. Here are a few stories we didn't get to this week that we thought you might be interested in. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday there are "strong indications of election...

States reacted swiftly Thursday to challenge the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) decision to undo the set of internet regulations known as net neutrality. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman took the lead Thursday afternoon announcing a lawsuit [press...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday voted 3-2 to repeal Obama-era net neutrality regulations in favor of returning to what it calls "longstanding, bipartisan light-touch regulatory framework that has fostered rapid Internet growth, openness,...

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer on Wednesday called on the US to end impunity for those officials who have committed acts of torture. Melzer urged US authorities to take action on the findings...

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday vacated a lower federal court injunction that imposed county-based signature-gathering requirements that minor political parties in Pennsylvania must fulfill to get their candidates on the...

The US District Court for the Western District of Washington on Monday blocked President Donald Trump's transgender military ban. US District Judge Marsha Pechman partially granted the preliminary injunction, finding the ban likely violates the plaintiffs'...

The Trump administration on Monday appealed the US District Court for the District of Columbia order that denied a request to delay the preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump's transgender military ban, originally set to take...