The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit heard oral arguments on Monday regarding President Donald Trump's immigration executive order. The Trump Administration is appealing a Maryland court ruling in March which placed a temporary...
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A Chinese human rights lawyer detained in the city of Changsha since 2015 pleaded guilty Monday to incitement to subversion and disturbing legal proceedings. Prosecutors accused Xie Yang of conspiring with people in and out of China to...
US President Donald Trump signed the Presidential Executive Order on Buy American and Hire American on Tuesday. The order requires executive agencies to monitor and enforce Buy American Laws, which are defined as all laws that "require,...
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that the Trump administration will have "zero tolerance for gang violence" from transnational criminal organizations such as MS-13, in remarks made to the Organized Crime Council and the Organized...
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled on Monday that the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe has exercised sufficient governmental power to meet the requirements of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) , which would...
The state of Hawaii, in a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's travel ban, requested on Tuesday that the entire Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sit for review of the case. Hawaii is requesting the en banc...
The cabinet of German Chancellor Angela Merkel approved draft legislation on Wednesday that would impose fines on social media websites for failing to delete users' entries that violate German hate speech laws. The fines ...
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Tuesday that LGBT employees are protected from workplace discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act . The plaintiff in the case was Kimberly...
A Taiwanese human rights advocate, Lee Ming-che, is detained in China, suspected of harming national security, according to Chinese government officials. Lee disappeared on March 19 after entering Macau. The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council PRC...
Lawyers for Daniel Ramirez Medina, a Mexican-born man detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) , despite being a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, have said that their client is expected to...
