UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Hussein told the World Economic Forum on Friday that "companies that take action to end discrimination and support LGBTI communities can be a motor for change." Zeid...
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The US Supreme Court on Thursday halted the planned execution of Alabama death row inmate Vernon Madison. Vernon Madison was convicted in Alabama of murdering a police officer in 1985. He was scheduled...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to disclose two documents within an internal DOJ resource manual for federal prosecutors related to electronic surveillance...
The US Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily stayed an order from the US District Court of the Middle District of North Carolina to redraw the state's congressional map because of partisan gerrymandering. The defendants...
Eleven Guantánamo inmates filed a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday claiming that their indefinite detention is due to President Donald Trump's anti-Muslim stance. The...
The US House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday that extends Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. The bill was approved by a vote of 256-164. Title VII...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday detalied the "methodical massacre" in the Rohingya village of Tula Toli, also known as Min Gyi, in Burma's Rakhine State on August 30, 2017. HRW alleges that Tula Toli was attacked...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on Monday vetoed a bill that would have placed stricter limits on abortion. The vetoed bill, SB-3, decreased the legal gestational age for an abortion from 24 weeks to 20...
The California Department of Insurance announced Wednesday that it has served Wells Fargo Bank and Wells Fargo Insurance with an accusation seeking to suspend or revoke the companies' licenses due to improper insurance sales...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Cyber Unit announced Monday that it has obtained an emergency asset freeze against Dominic Lacroix, Lacroix's partner Sabrina Paradis-Royer, and his company, PlexCorps, after filing charges alleging...
