The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Oklahoma and the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma Attorney General and nominee for head of the Environmental Protection...

Senators David Perdue (R-GA) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Tuesday announced the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act that would reduce overall legal immigration into the US. In 2015 a total of 1,051,031...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Thursday that the Department of Energy had completed the required investigations for the delivery of liquid radioactive waste from Chalk River in Ontario, Canada, to...

Egyptian authorities on Wednesday extended the detention of Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein by four days. Hussein was arrested on December 20. His detention was originally supposed to expire on January 4 and January 19, but his...

Russian news agencies reported Wednesday that three Federal Security Service (FSB) officials and one executive from the Kaspersky Labs cyber security company have been charged with treason. Two of the FSB officials have been identified as Sergei...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) have criticized the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines as part of the war on drugs in the country. AI released a report on Tuesday related...

The State Duma , Russia's lower house of the Federal Assembly, gave final approval to a bill Friday that decriminalizes "assaults that inflict physical pain but do not cause bodily injury that threatens the...

France's Constitutional Council, struck down a section of the Law on Equality and Citizenship on Thursday that expanded the definition of parental authority in the Civil Code to include rejecting all cruel, degrading and humiliating treatment, including...

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved legislation that prohibits the use of federal funds on abortions. The act, titled "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017," would prohibit the...

A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated Tuesday that the latest Israeli settlement plans creates an obstacle to a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, which is a "great concern to the Secretary-General." Israel plans [Al Jazeera...