The lower house of the German Parliament voted 393-226 Friday to legalize same-sex marriage. The decision came shortly after Chancellor Angela Merkel changed her conservative stance on the issue. Although Merkel voted against the...
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The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a previous ruling that Ohio's execution protocol was unconstitutional. The prior ruling had put further executions on hiatus. The question [AP...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday upheld North Carolina's Senate Bill 2 , which allows magistrates to refuse to perform same-sex marriages if doing so would conflict with their religious...
The Ohio Senate voted 24-9 Wednesday to approve SB 145 , a bill the criminalizes a common second-trimester abortion procedure. The bill specifically targets dilation and evacuation (D&E) which is usually performed after the...
The US Department of State on Wednesday issued guidelines for the modified travel ban allowed by the US Supreme Court earlier this week. The order permits denying visas to travelers from six predominantly Muslim...
In the 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report released on Tuesday, the US State Department downgraded China to Tier 3, which is the lowest tier for human trafficking. Tier 3 represents "countries whose governments do not fully...
The Hague Appeals Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court's decision that Dutch peacekeepers were 30 percent responsible for the deaths of 300 Muslim males who were turned away from a Dutch UN...
The Supreme Court of Canada upheld an order on Wednesday that directed Google to block a company's website from is global search results. The ruling stems from a suit brought by a...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a San Francisco ordinance on Tuesday that was implemented to halt deceptive advertising tactics employed by clinics opposed to abortion. The ordinance targeted ...
Brazil's Attorney General Rodrigo Janot filed charges Monday against President Michel Temer for passive corruption. A former aide to the president was also charged. Temer is accused of taking a bribe from entrepreneur Joesley Batista [WSJ...
