A jury in Portland, Oregon on Thursday acquitted all seven defendants involved in the 41-day armed occupation of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge , in a trial that lasted nearly six weeks. The defendants were acquitted of the main charge of conspiring to impede federal employees from performing their duties, while no verdict was reached [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Friday granted a stay on the preliminary injunction that had halted Michigan’s ban on taking selfies with completed voting ballots. In granting the stay, this places the ban back into effect. The district court opinion below had held such a ban was a violation of [...]

The UN General Assembly on Thursday voted to begin negotiations on banning nuclear weapons, despite opposition votes from world leaders including the United States, Russia, and the UK. The vote in the UN disarmament and international security committee passed 123-38, with 16 abstentions. The resolution aims to be a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear [...]

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in five cases Friday, including a controversial dispute over a Virginia transgender student’s right to use the restroom of his choice. In Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. the court will rule on a Virginia school board’s policy preventing a transgender who student who identifies as male from using [...]

The High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland on Friday dismissed a multi-issue legal challenge to the UK’s exit from the EU, known as Brexit. There were multiple issues under consideration by the court all centering around whether the referendum by vote to leave the EU is binding on Northern Ireland and public policy arguments [...]

A UK employment tribunal ruled Friday that Uber can no longer treat its drivers as self-employed and must provide certain workers’ rights to its drivers, including minimum wage. The tribunal determined that the drivers can be classified as “workers” for Uber subsidiaries under employment legislation and are therefore entitled to minimum wage requirements from the [...]

The Special Prosecution of the Republic of Kosovo filed an indictment Friday charging politician Fatmir Limaj with war crimes . The charges have been levied because of the murder of two civilians, Ramiz Hoxha and Selman Binishi, who were executed in October 1998 in the village Kravasari. Limaj was a member of the Kosovo Liberation [...]

A New York law prohibiting a person from showing the contents of her prepared voting ballot was challenged Wednesday as unconstitutional by state voters for violating their First Amendment rights. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York , alleges that the law infringes on voters’ freedom of [...]

Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday demanded that the US “come clean” about the civilian deaths resulting from US airstrikes in Syria over the last two years. Stating that it believes that the US has failed to take necessary precautions, AI contended that the US “Coalition forces failed to take adequate precautions to minimize harm to [...]

Federal authorities charged 56 people on Thursday in an indictment for fraud. The 56 people allegedly posed as Internal Revenue Service agents and immigration authorities. They are accused of coning unwitting victims into paying them over $300 million in total to clear fake tax debts and fictitious deportation warrants. They allegedly relied on personal information [...]