An Idaho woman has filed suit seeking to prevent prosecution of other women under the state's standing abortion laws. Mother of three Jennie Linn McCormack was prosecuted earlier this year under a 1972 state...
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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block the proposed $39 billion acquisition of cellular carrier T-Mobile USA by telecom giant AT&T . The agency filed suit ...
At least 88 individuals have been killed while in custody as a result of their participation in the ongoing protests in Syria, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report released Wednesday. All of the victims were...
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Tuesday blocked several provisions of a new Texas law that restricts abortion practices and requires a doctor to...
The Bolivian Supreme Court of Justice on Tuesday convicted seven officials—five military officers and two former cabinet ministers—of committing genocide. The military officials received sentences of 1015 years while the former cabinet ministers received three-year...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Monday that an Iowa girl born two years after her father's death was not entitled to his Social Security benefits. After the death...
The president of Vietnam on Monday ordered the release of more than 10,000 prisoners, granting amnesty to commemorate the country's National Day. Although none of the high profile government dissidents was released, the president freed five individuals ...
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday rejected an appeal filed by the Kenyan government and confirmed a Pre-Trial Chamber ruling refusing to transfer two cases stemming from 2007 post-election violence...
The UN's Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Monday began conducting its fitness hearing to prosecute individuals for mass killings and other crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge...
The UN called Tuesday for all states to end the "heinous crime" of enforced or involuntary disappearances . Enforced disappearances refers to the practice of placing people in secret detentions for weeks or months without ever being brought...
