A federal district judge on Monday allowed President Donald Trump's election commission to move forward by dismissing the need for a prior privacy impact assessment before collecting voter data. US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly denied...
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Iran's judiciary chief asked the US Monday to release Iranians jailed in the US and to return Iran's assets after President Donald Trump called on the state to release three detained US citizens. Iran's Judiciary...
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled on Monday that immigrants cannot be detained solely at the request of federal law enforcement officials. The decision comes out of Lunn v. Commonwealth, a case concerning a Cambodian...
Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro announced on Sunday that a controversial election for a new national assembly will go forth as planned next weekend. The new Constituent Assembly will have the power to rewrite the nation's constitution...
Polish President Andrzej Duda announced on Monday that he is vetoing two proposed laws that threaten to limit the judiciary's independence. One of the bills, passed by the Polish Parliament last week with two...
On Saturday, Venezuela's opposition party, Unidad Democratica , made a call for a 48-hour general strike to be held next Wednesday and Thursday. The strike comes in response to President Nicolas Maduro's call...
On Saturday, Poland's upper house of parliament, the Senate , passed a law that would give the government control over the Supreme Court. The law still needs to be approved by President Andrzej Duda...
The House of Representatives and the Senate reached an agreement on Saturday to impose a new sanctions bill on Russia that would give Congress a new veto power in any presidential attempt to roll back the sanctions. The development...
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released a report on Friday welcoming a program, almost five years in the works, to register undocumented Afghans living in Pakistan. UNHCR estimates that between 600,000...
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill into law on Friday directing New Jersey school boards to "addres common issues concerning the needs of transgender and LGBTQ students, and to assist schools in establishing policies...
