Democrats in the California State Senate introduced a bill on Thursday that would make California the first state to include three gender options on state identification documents: male, female and non-binary. The bill was...

Turkish citizens hae filed 5,363 cases in the European Court of Human Rights over a purge carried out by the Turkish government in response to July's coup, according to the president of the court, Guido Raimondi [official...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will be lifting restrictions on Israelis building settlements in East Jerusalem. The statement said "My vision is to enact sovereignty over all the settlements." Immediately after the...

South Korea's Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, Cho Yoon-sun , was arrested on Saturday by Korean prosecutors after allegedly creating a blacklist of artists critical of South Korea's impeached president. Cho was arrested , along with...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is suing Navient , the largest servicer of US student loans. The CFPB alleged that Navient "fail borrowers at every stage of repayment" in a press release on Wednesday....

The Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was extradited to the US on Thursday night after his appeal to prevent extradition was denied by a Mexican court. Guzmán , who ran the largest drug cartel in Mexico, previously...

US President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he is ending the "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy , which automatically allowed Cuban migrants to stay in the US. This repeal will be effective immediately. Obama said Cuban migrants...

The US House of Representatives approved the SEC Regulatory Accountability Act on Thursday, which requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to perform a cost-benefit analysis before implementing any new regulations. According to the summary...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Volkswagen executive Oliver Schmidt, a German citizen, on Saturday on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States . Schmidt, who was arrested in Florida, is...

Thailand's National Reform Steering Committee, which is appointed by the military, proposed a new law on Monday stating that Thai officials convicted of corruption involving more than 1 billion baht (USD $28 million) would be eligible for the death...