The New York Police Department (NYPD) came to a settlement agreement on Thursday in two civil rights lawsuits accusing the NYPD of wrongfully monitoring Muslims after the 9/11 attacks. In October the US Court of Appeals for...

A federal court in Ohio on Tuesday sentenced Serbian refugee Slobodan Mutic to two years in prison for lying on immigration forms about his participation in ethnic cleansing and genocide in the former Yugoslavia. A spokesperson for...

Two Yemeni men captured in Afghanistan and detained at Guantanamo Bay for 14 years have been released to Ghana, officials said Wednesday. These two are among the 17 detainees scheduled for release this month . The men...

TransCanda on Wednesday brought a lawsuit against the US Government in federal court challenging President Barack Obama's decision to reject the expansion of the Keystone pipeline. TransCanada filed its suit in the US District Court for the...

The Obama administration on Monday called on the US Supreme to strike down a recently passed Texas abortion law which the administration argues will harm women's health. According to US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli , the law...

The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state legislature does have the power to use advisory ballot measures. The decision will allow lawmakers to place a nonbinding question on ballots to ask voters whether they...

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced executive actions on gun control . The plan would require those in the business of selling firearms, including those selling firearms at gun shows, to be licensed...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act. The complaint was filed on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...

The first of 17 detainees are scheduled to be released from the Guantanamo Bay prison next week, said a senior US official on Monday. There will be 90 detainees remaining, 59 of whom are ineligible to be transferred...

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals placed a temporary injunction on Wednesday on an order from Utah Governor Gary Herbert which would have ended the state's contract with Planned Parenthood and cut federal funding...