The US State Department announced Wednesday that it will end the Central American Minors (CAM) refugee program, an Obama-era immigration initiative that sought to resettle “children and eligible family members who are nationals of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.” CAM was established as a response to the thousands of unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central [...]

Texas officials on Wednesday executed Rubén Cárdenas Ramírez, a Mexican national who was convicted in 1998 for the kidnap, rape and murder of his 16-year-old cousin, despite international pressure. The US Supreme Court had denied a writ of certiorari as well as an appeal to stay the execution on Wednesday. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto [...]

Saudi authorities have detained more than 200 individuals in connection with an investigation into corruption that has cost more than USD $100 billion over the past several decades, Attorney General Sheikh Saud Al Mojeb said Thursday. Of these 208 individuals called in for questioning, seven have been released without charge. The governor of the Saudi [...]

Following an Associated Press (AP) article published Wednesday, Sri Lanka wrote Thursday in a letter to the New York Times that it will investigate allegations of torture and rape of 50 Tamil individuals by police offices and military officials. The AP report contains interviews and photographs with 20 Tamil men who claim they were raped, [...]

International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Wednesday reported to the statement to the UN Security Council (UNSC) on the efforts to arrest Libyan special forces commander Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf Al-Werfalli. The warrant for his arrest was issued in August 2015 following the release of video evidence of Al-Werfalli performing seven different executions, resulting [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday authorized prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate potential crimes against humanity and war crimes in Burundi. The decision of Pre-Trial Chamber III was the result of a preliminary examination launched in Spring 2016. Welcoming the decision, Bensouda noted that the opening of an investigation does not presume an outcome. [...]

Residents of Maine on Tuesday voted to expand access to Medicaid to an additional 70,000 low-income individuals under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , making it the first state to implement this expansion by referendum. Maine was one of the remaining 19 states that refused to expand Medicaid under the ACA, and the referendum

Redistricting has taken on increasing importance nationally as controversies over the political gerrymandering of House seats in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have moved into the spotlight. However, redistricting controversies are not confined to the national level. At the local level, redistricting causes emotions to run high, frustrates politicians and, sometimes, causes befuddlement. A survey [...]

Ohio voters on Tuesday approved an amendment that will give Ohio crime victims more Constitutional rights. Issue 1 passed with over 82 percent of the vote , giving crime victims more rights and requiring that those rights be as well protected as the rights of the criminal suspects. The rights provided by this amendment include [...]

The Indonesian Constitutional Court on Tuesday found that a 2013 law requiring people who adopted indigenous native faiths to not disclose that religion on their ID cards was discriminatory and unconstitutional. The Indonesian government only recognizes six official religions and anyone who fails to identify with one of the religions is often denied equal access [...]