The UK announced Tuesday that thousands of gay and bisexual men who were convicted of sexual offenses received a posthumous pardon as their actions are no longer deemed illegal under British law. The pardon is part of the...

The Arkansas House of Representatives approved a proposal on Tuesday that would reinstate a voter identification law that was struck down over two years ago. This bill, which was passed 74-21, is nearly identical to...

The City of San Francisco filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against the Trump administration over the executive order to withhold federal funding from...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch of the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the US...

A judge for the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals on Tuesday ordered the release of Turkish judge Aydin Sefa Akay who was detained in July. The order stresses that the Turkish government should release Akay and...

In a statement Tuesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed "concerned the decisions that around the world have been undermining the integrity of the international refugee protection regime." While he acknowledged that "ountries have the right, even the...

Pakistani authorities on Monday placed militant leader Hafiz Muhammad Saeed under house arrest for his connection to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the charity known as Jamaat-ud-Dawa . Saeed has been accused of orchestrating the...

US President Donald Trump vowed on Tuesday to continue to enforce the executive order instated by Barack Obama that protects lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people working in federal institutions and contracts. A...

Mitzie Perez and the California League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) on Monday filed a lawsuit against Wells Fargo alleging that the bank refused to extend Perez and other similarly situated students loans solely because...

More than 1,700 residents of Flint, Michigan, on Monday filed a class action lawsuit against the US, claiming that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to respond to damage claims arising from the Flint water...