Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson stated during a news conference on Monday that legislation has been proposed to abolish the death penalty. The state's stance on capital punishment has recently been under question, though lawmakers...

Oman's Foreign Ministry announced that it has accepted 10 detainees from Guantanamo Bay upon request from the Obama administration. However, there has been no official statement released by the US Defense Department on the...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a recent letter, warned President-Elect Trump against moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Specifically, Abbas said the move would have a "disastrous impact on the peace process, on the two-state solution...

The US House of Representatives on Friday voted to begin the process of repealing the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) . The decision to dismantle the ACA, commonly referred to as Obamacare, by a vote of...

The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari to 16 new cases . The Court granted review on a variety of civil and criminal cases. The civil cases include both substantive and procedural questions. Substantively, in Sandoz, Inc....

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday vacated its damages determination in the longstanding patent lawsuit between Samsung and Apple . The previous $399 million damages award was overturned ...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday to evaluate how many power plant and coal mining jobs have been lost due...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) reported on Friday that it found evidence supporting that the Chicago Police Department (CPD) engages in a pattern of using force, including deadly force, in violation of the...

The US Environmental Protection Agency released a statement Thursday accusing Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) of installing and failing to disclose engine software that lead to increased emission of nitrogen oxides in roughly 104,000 diesel-powered vehicles....

Loevy and Loevy , a civil rights law firm, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the use of a secret cellphone tracking system by the Chicago Police Department . The suit was filed on behalf...