Three former Google employees filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing the company of wage discrimination against women. Plaintiffs Kelly Ellis, Holly Pease and Kelly Wisuri filed the complaint as a class action lawsuit in California Superior Court in San Fransisco....
The Minnesota Supreme Court overruled part of a state disorderly conduct statute on Wednesday, saying that it violated the First Amendment because it is "overbroad." Minnesota Statues 609.72, subd. 1(2) makes it a crime...
US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday introduced his "Medicare for all" bill. The Medicare for All Act of 2017 , which is cosponsored by 16 democrats including 2020 front runners Cory Booker, Kamala Harris,...
A group of individuals represented by the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts challenging the "searches and seizures of smartphones, laptops, and other...
A coalition of rights groups, led by Human Rights First , called on the US Departments of State and Treasury Wednesday to use the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to sanction foreign citizens...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a joint resolution , now awaiting President Donald Trump's signature, which condemns both the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the hate groups involved. The bipartisan joint resolution, which was...
The state of Ohio executed convicted killer Gary Otte Wednesday morning after the US Supreme Court denied his request for a stay on Tuesday night. Otte was sentenced to death in 1992 for the...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked two lower court rulings that mandated the redrawing of Texas congressional and state legislative districts . Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Stephen Breyer would have denied the application...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday that it will be not pursue charges against the six Baltimore police officers for the death of Freddie Gray, finding there was insufficient evidence prove beyond a...
A judge of the New Hampshire Superior Court on Tuesday blocked SB 3 , a New Hampshire law that would have potentially imposed a fine or potential jail time if voters did not submit proof...