Iran has been keeping its commitment as part of a preliminary nuclear deal from 2013 barring Iran from expanding nuclear programs during negotiations, according to an UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report obtained by the the Associated Press. According to the report, Iran has converted over four tons of enriched uranium into oxide as [...]
US President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that the US and Cuba will reopen embassies in each other’s capital cities, after 54 years of severed diplomatic relations. Obama said US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Havana this summer for the opening of the new US embassy. Obama said the past isolation policy against [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama on Wednesday issued an order that all Alabama counties must abide by a Supreme Court ruling allowing same-sex marriage. The order says that state probate judges may not discriminate against same-sex couples after the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is [...]
Indiana’s controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) law took effect on Wednesday, one of many such bills to take effect today around the country. The bill, as originally written, made it legal for private businesses to refuse service to potential customers because of their sexual orientation. Many believe that this would in essence legalize discrimination [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Wesley Oliver of Duquesne University School of Law discusses the Amnesty International Report condemning US for police use of force… Amnesty International last week harshly criticized the US for not providing standards strictly limiting the use of lethal force by police to those occasions when no other options are available and such [...]
The US Justice Department Office of Community Oriented Policing Service (COPS) has found that the response by the Ferguson, Missouri police department escalated riots after Michael Brown’s death last summer. The findings were in a draft report obtained by the St. Louis Dispatch Tuesday. The report says that the officers inappropriate use of dogs, snipers, [...]
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled Monday that the National Security Agency(NSA) may temporarily resume its program of systematically collecting Americans’ phone data in bulk. The program lapsed on June 1 after the expiration of the USA Patriot Act , but the program survived with the passage of the USA Freedom Act , signed into [...]
Thousands gathered across Spain on Tuesday to protest Spain’s new public security law that went into effect on Wednesday. The Citizen Security Law , labeled as a “gag law” by protesters, sets fines for burning the national flag, protesting outside of parliament buildings, and distributing photographs of police officers that could threaten their operations. The [...]
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday appointed Lee Wolowsky the new envoy to lead the Obama administration’s efforts to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay . Wolowsky is a former National Security Council director under the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations and current partner at a law firm. Kerry anticipates [...]
US President Barack Obama and Brazil President Dilma Rousseff met Tuesday and announced an agreement to address climate change. Both countries pledged to reduce carbon emissions by increasing the use of wind and solar power sources to 20 percent of each nation’s electricity production by 2030. Brazil also pledged to help reduce the deforestation problem [...]
