The Baltimore City Council voted 11-3 Monday to approve a bill that would increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2022. Maryland's current minimum wage is $8.75 and is slated to increase to $10.10...
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More than 850 family members of victims of the 9/11 attacks filed a lawsuit Monday against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . The suit alleges that Saudi Arabia provided support to al Qaeda in multiple...
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin signed a bill into law on Monday aimed at protecting student organizations' rights to manage internal affairs in a manner that is consistent with the group's religious or political beliefs. The law passed...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in Murr v. Wisconsin and Howell v. Howell . In Murr v. Wisconsin , the court heard arguments regarding whether "parcel as a whole" in a...
The Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on Monday for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch . Each of the 20 senators on the committee, as well as Gorsuch himself, began the hearing by providing opening statements. Democrat...
Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain signed into law the Hindu Marriage Bill 2017 on Sunday, allowing Pakistan's Hindus to regulate their own marriages. Hindus will be able to perform legal marriages in accordance with their religious customs. According...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday began hearing an appeal by Jadranko Prlic, Prime Minister of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, an unrecognized entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina,...
Seven army officials have been arrested and charged with war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , according to government officials at a press conference on Saturday. The charges stem from...
Judge Derrick Watson of the US District Court for the District of Hawaii stood by his ruling against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban and denied a motion on Sunday...
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal by Senator Bob Menendez in a bribery and fraud case. The appeal argued that Menendez's alleged conduct was immune from legal scrutiny because...
