The Obama administration on Thursday petitioned the US Supreme Court to uphold the president's ability to make executive appointments while the Senate is in recess. The recess appointment is a constitutional power that permits the...
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Canada's House of Commons on Wednesday approved a bill that provides expanded investigative powers and criminal penalties for terrorism related matters. The short title of the bill is The Combating Terrorism Act. The legislation permits...
The EU Court of Justice on Thursday upheld the EU's three-year ban on seal products. Regulation (EC) No 1007/2009 , which recognizes seals as "sentient beings that can experience pain, distress, fear and other forms...
The European Commission announced Thursday that Google has agreed to provide clearer labeling of promoted links in order to assuage concerns that the search engine is abusing its dominance in the market by...
A Toronto judge ruled Wednesday that a Muslim woman must remove her niqab while testifying in a sexual abuse case. The woman, known as NS, has been fighting for years to be allowed to wear her niqab...
The Rhode Island Senate voted 26 to 12 Wednesday in favor of a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage . The House passed its own version of the bill in January,...
Israel's Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein confirmed Wednesday that security personnel can ask visitors to the country to open their e-mail accounts if they are perceived as suspicious. The attorney general's approval comes in response to an...
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday criticized for limiting freedom of speech since Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency. HRW's report calls the restrictive laws "unprecedented" in Russia's post-Soviet history. Amnesty...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Wednesday. In Metrish v. Lancaster the court heard arguments on whether the Michigan Supreme Court violated due process rights when...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday resentenced Wadih El-Hage to life in prison for his role in the 1998 bombing of two US embassies [PBS...
