Myanmar prosecutors said Wednesday that two Reuters journalists have been charged with obtaining state secrets. Journalists Wal Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested on December 12, 2017, while investigating the government's crackdown on the Rohingya minority group in the...
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice issued an opinion Wednesday urging the court to void the EU's fisheries agreement with the Kingdom of Morocco. Advocate General Melchior Wathelet grounded his decision in the...
The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted Tuesday to legalize recreational marijuana . After a committee recommendation that the lawmakers kill the bill, the House voted against killing the bill. The House then voted 207-139 to...
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, filed two defamation lawsuits on Monday regarding BuzzFeed's publication of the Steele Dossier , a condemning but unsubstantiated report indicating collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian agents. The first...
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Wednesday issued a unanimous advisory opinion that member states "must recognize and guarantee all the rights that are derived from a family bond between people of...
A three-judge panel in the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina struck down North Carolina's 2016 congressional redistricting plan Tuesday. The case was brought by consolidated plaintiffs Common Cause and the League of Women...
Judge William Alsup of the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which gives undocumented...
Eight states have filed an amicus brief in a case concerning a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant's attempt to obtain an abortion without parental consent while in government custody. Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and South Carolina...
The US Supreme Court heard two Fourth Amendment cases Tuesday involving the search of motor vehicles. In the first case, Byrd v. United States , the court heard arguments as to whether a driver has...
A US federal judge on Monday terminated a consent decree requiring the Republican National Committee (RNC) to get court approval for any "ballot security" measures it planned to implement. Judge John Michael Vazquez of...