US President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday. Trump said he acted under direction from both the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. A letter written to...
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The Supreme Court of India on Monday found judge C.S. Karnan guilty of contempt and sentenced him to six months in jail. The court ordered the judge to be...
Ireland Health Minister Simon Harris said Monday that the country's blasphemy laws were "embarrassing" and called for their repeal. His comments follow the revelation that an investigation had been launched into...
Advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Monday that there are "systemic failures, such as unreasonable delays in care and unqualified medical staff leading to "dangerously subpar" medical care in US immigration detention centers. The...
Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison after being found guilty of blasphemy by an Indonesian court . Ahok is Christian and the charges...
Former acting US Attorney General Sally Yates testified before a Senate judiciary subcommittee on Monday stating that she had warned about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's vulnerabilities to blackmail by Russia less than a week after President Donald...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit heard oral arguments on Monday regarding President Donald Trump's immigration executive order. The Trump Administration is appealing a Maryland court ruling in March which placed a temporary...
A Chinese human rights lawyer detained in the city of Changsha since 2015 pleaded guilty Monday to incitement to subversion and disturbing legal proceedings. Prosecutors accused Xie Yang of conspiring with people in and out of China to...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday signed into law a bill banning so-called "sanctuary cities" in the state. Under the law, municipal officials who fail to assist with federal immigration enforcement could face...
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam on Friday signed SB 1085 into law which mandates that undefined laws be given their natural and ordinary meaning. Dubbed the "natural and ordinary meaning" law, it requires that "undefined...
