The US Senate on Thursday passed a joint resolution to allow states to prevent federal grant money from going to abortion providers. Under the bill, states would be allowed to withhold federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood and other organizations that perform abortions. Specifically, the bill would nullify a regulation passed by the Obama [...]

Volkswagen (VW) reached additional settlements with US state attorneys general on Thursday for emissions standards fraud. In addition to a $4.3 billion settlement agreement that VW reached with the US Department of Justice earlier this month, VW has now agreed to pay approximately $157.5 million to 10 states in order to settle consumer and environmental [...]

Several environmental groups filed lawsuits against the Trump administration Thursday over the Keystone XL pipeline . In their complaints, the groups argued that the State Department violated the National Environmental Policy Act by approving the pipeline without the up-to-date assessment and public input. The groups filing the lawsuits are the Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra [...]

North Carolina House Bill 2 (HB2) , commonly known as the “bathroom bill,” was repealed on Thursday. Governor Roy Cooper signed HB142 , which repeals HB2, after the legislature passed the bill in a 70-48 vote. In signing the bill, Cooper stated that the bill was meant to not only end discrimination against the LGBT [...]

The recently-impeached South Korea President Guen-Hye Park was arrested Friday on charges of bribery, coercion, abuse of power, and leaking government secrets. Park may be facing an additional nine other charges and can be held behind bars for up to 20 days during the course of the investigation. A Seoul district court issued the warrant [...]

A UK court of appeals declined on Thursday to allow a man with a terminal disease the right to seek his own death. Noel Conway has terminal motor neurone disease and is only expected to live another 12 months. Conway asked the court to find that the Suicide Act of 1961 is in conflict with [...]

The Supreme Court of Venezuela on Wednesday essentially dissolved the opposition-controlled National Assembly, assuming all legislative powers. The court ruled that because the legislature had defied previous court rulings, all of its decisions are invalid. The move has been decried as a “coup” by the opposition and has already been condemned by the international community. [...]

Attorney General Edgar Veytia of the state of Nayarit, Mexico, has been arrested on charges of international narcotics trafficking conspiracy, according to court documents filed by federal officials on Tuesday. The gist of the grand jury indictment obtained on Veytia earlier this month is that Veytia “together with others, did knowingly and intentionally conspire to [...]

Legal counsel for detained reporter, Deniz Yucel, appeared before the Turkish Constitutional Court to request his release, his employer Die Welt said Wednesday. Yucel was detained in mid-February, and has been held by the Turkish government since. The charges against Yucel include the production of terrorist propaganda and incitement of the population. According to Die [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Hawaii granted the state of Hawaii’s request on Wednesday to convert the temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking President Donald Trump‘s travel ban earlier this month into a preliminary injunction . The court first clarified that it has discretion to convert a TRO into a [...]