UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the global community to develop comprehensive solutions to allow for safe and legal migration after 70 bodies, believed to be Syrian asylum seekers, were discovered in a...

The United Nations Security Council on Friday condemned the use of sexual violence as a "tactic of war" in Iraq and Syria. Following a briefing by UN Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab...

Three individuals in a polygynous domestic relationship on Friday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Montana , challenging Montana's law banning polygamy, following Yellowstone County officials' denial of a...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday reversed a ruling that blocked the National Security Agency (NSA) from obtaining call detail records from US citizens. Plaintiffs contended...

US District Judge Ralph Erickson of the US District Court of the District of North Dakota in Fargo on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction against a rule granting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the...

A Kentucky county clerk on Thursday again denied a same-sex couple's request for a marriage license, despite a federal appeals court order. Kim Davis, the clerk for Rowan county, has declined to extend marriage licenses to same-sex couples following...

The Alaska Superior Court struck down a state law Thursday, finding that it would have placed unconstitutional regulations on Medicaid coverage of abortions to the detriment of low-income women. The case was...

A Travis county judge on Friday denied a request for a temporary restraining order meant to halt the University of Texas at Austin's efforts to relocate a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The university's plan to...

Google filed a response Thursday to the European Commission (EC) , rejecting EU antitrust charges that Google structures its search results to favor its own services over those of rivals. The EU's investigation of Google over...

Guatemalan judicial authorities must prevent further "obstruction of justice" in the ongoing genocide trial against the former dictator and the former chief of intelliegence, according to a statement by two experts from the UN Office of the...