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 [official...
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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...
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...
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 [St....
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...
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...
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...
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...
France's chief prosecutor said on Tuesday that the man who allegedly beheaded his boss, pinned the severed head on a fence post and tried to blow up an industrial plant will be charged with terrorism and murder. The announcement...
