A federal judge on Friday ruled that a new licensing exam for teachers in the state of New York did not discriminate against minorities. Kimba M. Wood of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said in his ruling that even though minority teachers tended to score lower on the test [...]
A Bulgarian military court on Friday sentenced former intelligence chief Kircho Kirov to 10 years in prison for embezzlement. Kirov had served as the head of the National Intelligence Service from 2002 until 2012 and was convicted in 2013 for embezzling 4.7 million leva (2.4 million euros) between 2007 and 2011. During this time he [...]
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty contributor Khadija Ismayilova on Friday went on trial in Baku, Azerbaijan eight months after her arrest. The investigative journalist faces charges of tax evasion, abuse of power and embezzlement, which she claims are the politically motivated punishment for her work exposing government corruption. Ismayilova has pleaded not guilty. A defense motion [...]
A Colorado jury on Friday sentenced James Holmes to life in prison for killing 12 people and injuring 70 in the 2012 shooting movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. The sentence , which carries no possibility of parole, came as a result of the jury’s inability to reach a unanimous decision about giving death penalty. [...]
Prosecutors on Thursday filed criminal charges against Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane for allegedly leaking grand jury documents to the media to embarrass a critic, and then giving false testimony to a grand jury in order to cover up her actions. The Montgomery Country District Attorney Risa V. Ferman charged the attorney general with counts [...]
The Department of Justice announced Wednesday settlement with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on reforms to LA prisons in an attempt to improve care for mentally ill inmates. The agreement comes after a series of incidents where deputies were found to abuse mentally ill inmates by breaking their bones and sexually humiliating them. The [...]
Israeli rights group Shurat HaDin Law Center and two dozen Americans filed a lawsuit Wednesday in an attempt to block the Obama administration from releasing an estimated $100 billion in frozen Iranian funds. The plaintiffs hold existing judgments against the country and claim that releasing the frozen funds will “prevent them from ever collecting on [...]
Uganda’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the practice of refunding the price of a bride upon the dissolution of a customary marriage is unconstitutional and should be banned. In a 6-1 decision , the majority held that the practice suggests that women were in the market place and it infringes on a woman’s right [...]
Libyan officials announced Thursday that they had found the body of a Libyan judge who was abducted by an affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) last month. Judge Mohamed al-Nemli’s body, whose death was confirmed by the town of Zliten, was found near the city of Misrata in western Libya. The body had a gunshot [...]
A panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday ruled that a Texas voter identification law discriminated against blacks and Hispanics and violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) . The law, which is one of the strictest in the country, requires that voters bring a [...]
