The Constitutional Court of Colombia on Thursday legalized same-sex marriage. In a 6-3 decision , the court found that same-sex marriage does not violate the country's constitution . The decision comes just...
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The US House of Representatives voted unanimously Wednesday to pass the Email Privacy Act" . The purpose of the bill is to protect the e-mail correspondence of American citizens, as under the current Electronic Communications Privacy...
China passed a new law Thursday restricting non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and subjecting them to intense governmental scrutiny and other obligations such as reporting their sources of income and increasing the number of reasons for which their licenses will...
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam on Wednesday announced that he signed into law a bill allowing therapists to refuse to treat patients based on religious objections, when that patient's "goals, outcomes or behaviors" conflict with...
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison on bank fraud charges relating to his payment of hush money to alleged sexual abuse victims. In Judge Thomas Durkin's federal district courtroom, Hastert admitted...
Residents of Flint, Michigan, represented by attorney Michael Pitt , filed an administrative complaint against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Monday for negligence in handling the Flint water crisis. The suit alleges that the EPA...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in McDonnell v. United States . The court is being asked to decide the meaning of "official action" under the fraud statutes used to convict former...
A judge for Arizona's Superior Court of Maricopa County on Wednesdaydismissed a lawsuit alleging fraud and other grievances from the primary elections in Arizona for failure to state a claim for which relief can be granted....
More than 700 citizens and residents of Japan filed lawsuits against the government Tuesday over new security laws that would allow the deployment of troops abroad to defend allies. The measure, backed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...
Following an earlier court decision, Belgiam authorities on Wednesday completed the extradition of a terror suspect to France. Salah Abdeslam who is thought to be the criminal mastermind of the Paris terror attacks last year was extradited into...
