The Ohio General Assembly voted 18-13 Wednesday to pass a bill that bans abortions after the fetus has “a detectable fetal heartbeat,” which usually occurs during the sixth week of pregnancy.  The bill has an exemption to save the mother’s life, but no exemption for rape and incest. Senator Kristina Roegner introduced the bill into the Senate in February, which [...]

The US House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday containing amendments to the Internal Revenue Code with one amendment criticized as aiding tax preparation services such as TurboTax and service providers like H&R Block. HR 1957, titled the “Taxpayer First Act,” passed the House by voice vote. The bill includes provisions changing the management of the [...]

The UK Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that citizens of Zambia may sue a mining company in the UK. The case arises out of a claim by Zambian citizens against Vedanta Resources PLC, which is a company in the UUK that is the parent company of Konkola Copper Mines PLC. The latter company is the owner [...]

Rosmah Mansor, wife of former Malaysia prime minister Najib Razak, was charged on Wednesday with accepting a bribe in relation to a government solar power project. Rosmah Mansor was charged with accepting a 5 million ringgit (USD $1.2 million) payment through her aide from a manager at Jepak Holdings as a kickback for helping secure [...]

The Canadian government proposed changes to its asylum laws Tuesday via a recently tabled omnibus budget bill. If approved, the omnibus bill would include provisions to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that would prevent refugees from seeking asylum in Canada if they have made asylum claims in other countries. Division 16 of Part 4 [...]

New Zealand’s Parliament has on Wednesday passed a law banning semiautomatic weapons in response to the Christchurch massacre last month that killed 50 and injured scores of Muslim worshippers. The legislation has passed the final of three stages and will become law with the ceremonial approval of the Queen of England’s delegate expected Thursday. 119 [...]

Amnesty International reported on Wednesday that global executions fell by nearly one-third last year to the lowest figure in at least a decade. In its 2018 global review of the death penalty, Amnesty assed known executions worldwide, except in China, where executions thought to be in the thousands remain classified as a state secret. Kumi [...]

Sixteen parents involved in a college admissions scandal were charged Tuesday in a second indictment by a federal grand jury in Boston with conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering. The indictment comes just a day after 14 of their co-defendants said they would plead guilty for their role in an alleged multimillion-dollar conspiracy that cheated college [...]

Following Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s signing of four gun control laws on Tuesday, Pittsburgh residents filed a lawsuit with the help of the National Rifle Association (NRA) challenging the interpretation of “large capacity magazines” in one of the laws. The case in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas is styled Anderson v. City of Pittsburgh. The [...]

Judge John Koeltl of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Monday that several young immigrants who were deemed to have been abused or neglected by their parents could not be denied special immigration juvenile status by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) department of citizenship and immigration services. The ruling [...]