The lower house of the Dutch parliament on Tuesday voted 77-72 to approve a bill that would tolerate the cultivation of cannabis. Possessing and buying the drug at shops has been tolerated in the...
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A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday to halt Texas' plan to cut Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood . The injunction...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday remanded a dispute over an elementary school student's service dog to the lower court. In Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools , a child with cerebral palsy attempted to bring...
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe vetoed legislation Tuesday that would have defunded Planned Parenthood and other women's health providers. HB 2264 sought to remove funding from any provider that performed any abortion or...
The Sri Lankan police on Monday arrested five military officials in connection with the 2009 death of journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge. The Free Media Movement of Sri Lanka said that the those arrested for were...
US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly officially issued on Monday two memoranda to the department directing its workforce to implement two executive orders on the enforcement of immigration laws. The first memorandum...
Human rights groups on Tuesday urged the Thai Army to drop defamation charges against three activists, including the Chair of Amnesty International Thailand, Pornpen Khongkachonkiet, and Anchana Heemmina, founder of Duay Jai Group , and Somchai Homlaor, a...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a lethal injection case from Alabama, over the dissent of Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer. The appeal was filed by inmate Tommy Arthur, who was...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari on Tuesday to determine whether a guilty plea waives a defendant's right to challenge the constitutionality of the statute under which he was convicted. The case, Class v. US [docket;...
The People's Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey filed an application Monday asking the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to address the continuous and allegedly unlawful imprisonment of the party's co-chairs. Thirteen HDP politicians...
