The number of data breaches and files stolen worldwide reached a record high in 2016, according to cyber security firm Risk Based Security Monday. Inga Goddijn , Risk Based Security's vice president, stated that...

US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order aimed at reducing the number of federal regulations. The executive order requires two regulations to be eliminated for every new one created and caps the costs...

The attorneys general of 16 states, plus the District of Columbia, issued a joint statement on Sunday calling US President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration "un-American." The attorneys general pledged to "work together to...

A three-judge panel for the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin ordered the state legislature on Friday to redraw legislative district lines by November 1. The panel's decision, which they stated was to...

The US District Court for the Western District of Texas continued the suspension of a Texas health department regulation on Friday which would require the burial or cremation of all fetal remains in Texas. The regulation...

The US District Court for the Eastern District of NY in an emergency ruling Saturday stayed the execution, until further notice, of an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump , which would restrict access to the...

Maine Governor Paul LePage on Friday signed the marijuana moratorium bill into law, just three days before recreational marijuana becomes legal in Maine. The bill allows personal marijuana use but restricts retail sales for one year, at...

Following Twitter's release of two warrantless surveillance orders published on Friday, some legal experts have said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) may have overstepped current legal guidelines for acquiring certain internet data. The...

Democrats in the California State Senate introduced a bill on Thursday that would make California the first state to include three gender options on state identification documents: male, female and non-binary. The bill was...

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed HB 1032 into law on Thursday banning the most common abortion procedure employed in the second trimester of pregnancy—dilation and evacuation. Proponents of the law, titled "The Arkansas Unborn Child Protection...