The US and Germany embassies released a statement on Wednesday urging China to release human rights activist Wu Gan, known as the "Super Vulgar Butcher," who was sentenced to imprisonment for eight years for undermining governmental authority. According to...
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Former Peru President Alberto Fujimori was pardoned by President Pedro Pablo Kuzynski on Sunday after serving almost half of a 25-year prison sentence for human rights abuses and corruption committed during his authoritarian regime in the 1990s. Fijumori,...
The cities of New York, San Francisco, and Philadelphia filed a lawsuit on Friday against the US Department of Defense (DOD) for its failure to report criminal conviction records in the military justice system needed for...
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction against President Trump's third travel ban last Friday. The three-judge panel stated that under the Immigration and Nationality Act , the...
Over the course of the past week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has revoked a total of 25 Obama-era Department of Justice (DOJ) guidelines. Among them was a 2016 guideline that advised local...
US District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Saturday ruled that the US must allow the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLUF) access to an American citizen being held in US military custody in Iraq. On...
US President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law on Friday, making sweeping changes to US tax rates, exemptions and deductions. At the signing ceremony, Trump touted what he sees...
The US District Court for the Northern District of California , on Thursday, granted a preliminary injunction to block the Trump Administration's policy allowing employers with religious or moral objections to deny women insurance coverage for contraceptives. In issuing...
The US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday dismissed a case against President Donald Trump, which accused him of violating the Constitution's emoluments clause . The plaintiffs argued that Trump failed to...
US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday denied the Trump Administration's bid to forestall transgender recruits from military service. Thursday's order merely denied the administration's plea to suspend an order by a federal judge in...
