Russian metal tycoon Oleg Deripaska filed suit in New York state court Wednesday against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and associate Rick Gates alleging fraud. Related charges were brought in 2014 in the Cayman Islands. This new...
EU Advocate General Melchior Wathelet advised the European Court of Justice (ECJ) Thursday that the rights of same-sex spouses must be recognized by every member of the EU, even if a country's government has not authorized...
US President Donald Trump signed the International Narcotics Trafficking Emergency Response by Detecting Incoming Contraband with Technology, orINTERDICT Act , on Wednesday, with the purpose of affording border protection agents enhanced opioid screening technology. The act authorizes appropriation of...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights , Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, on Wednesday condemned the rise in civilian casualties in the Eastern Ghouta region of Syria resulting from the recent increase in airstrikes and ground-based attacks...
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday announced a lawsuit against BP, Chevron Corporation, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corporation and Royal Dutch Shell for their role in climate change. Extensive quantities of greenhouse gasses...
A three judge panel for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Wednesday rejected 2-1 a constitutional challenge to Pennsylvania's electoral map. Although there was no unified majority opinion in Agre v....
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Wednesday that a 17-year-old immigrant in government custody was blocked by the Trump administration from obtaining an abortion. The unidentified 17-year-old girl, referred to as Jane Moe, is believed to be in...
Canada filed a 32-page complaint against the US at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday concerning certain laws, regulations and other measures in relation to US anti-dumping or countervailing duty investigations, reviews or other proceedings....
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a 2014 citizen vote to amend the state constitution to remove the right to abortion. The question before the court was not whether such...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute , a case challenging Ohio's voter registration maintenance policy, which permits the government to remove individuals from the voter registration list after...