Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) officials Friday to investigate fully and impartially a video allegedly showing Congolese soldiers shooting and killing 13 alleged militia members. The video, released on February...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that creates regulatory task forces in every federal agency to look through the regulations and determine which ones "are burdensome to the US economy" and can be removed...

The lower house of the Dutch parliament on Tuesday voted 77-72 to approve a bill that would tolerate the cultivation of cannabis. Possessing and buying the drug at shops has been tolerated in the...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday remanded a dispute over an elementary school student's service dog to the lower court. In Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools , a child with cerebral palsy attempted to bring...

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Cistrict on Thursday overturned Florida's 2011 Firearms Owners' Privacy Act (FOPA) , also referred to as the "Docs vs. Glocks" law. The law prohibited doctors from entering information...

The Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA) and several electricity generators filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against the Illinois Power Agency (IPA) over the enactment...

The European Commission gave final warnings to Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the UK Wednesday for failing to address air pollution. The countries have repeatedly failed to meet the NO2 air pollution limits, as set by...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Tuesday that prohibits New York City from imposing a fee on plastic bags. New York City (NYC) was one day away from enacting a 5 cent fee...

The state of Georgia has settled a lawsuit against Secretary of State Brian Kemp over a voter registration law that would reject any application that did not exactly match personal identification information in state and federal...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday approved an 18-article bill that would provide significant changes to Turkey's constitution. A public referendum vote will be held on April 16 to see if the changes...