The Bangladesh Parliament on Monday passed revisions to the Child Marriage Restraint Act , allowing girls under the age of 18 to be married under "special circumstances." The revisions do not change the...
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Gun rights advocates are allowed to publish personal information, such as addresses and telephone numbers, of legislators who voted in favor of California's recent gun control laws, a federal judge ruled Monday. Chief Judge Lawrence O'Neill of...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday denied a request to stay the appeal regarding President Donald Trump's controversial immigration executive order . The US Department of Justice (DOJ) ...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) introduced a motion to withdraw in a Texas Federal Court Monday, reversing its previous stance that SB 14 , a Texas voter ID law, was created with an intent to discriminate...
Japanese automobile parts manufacturer Takata pleaded guilty on Monday to wire fraud arising out of air bag defects that killed 16 people. Takata was sentenced to pay $1 billion in fines, victim compensation and...
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled on Monday in favor of three transgender students at Pine-Richland High School and ordered the school district to allow...
A UN Working Group on Monday concluded that people of African descent in Germany suffer discrimination, profiling and xenophobia on a day to day basis. The report concluded that, "institutional racism and racist stereotyping by the...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in Packingham v. North Carolina and Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions . In Packingham the court considered whether a law that bans the use of social media for...
The US Supreme Court affirmed the judgment in Independence Institute v. Federal Election Commission in a summary disposition on Monday. The case revolved around whether Congress may require organizations engaged in policy...
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee called Monday for an immediate end to persecution against the Rohingya Muslim population after she spent four days in the country. Lee said [press...
