US President Donald Trump signed three executive orders on Thursday aimed at targeting drug cartels, creating a task force to reduce crime and stopping crimes against law enforcement. Attorney General Jeff Sessions presented the orders to Trump as his first act as head of the Department of Justice . Trump stressed the importance of these [...]

A former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges that he willfully retained national defense information. US officials are stating that the theft by Harold Thomas Martin may have been the largest heist of classified government information in history. Martin allegedly spent over 20 years stealing [...]

Nepal on Thursday extended the mandates of two separate commissions tasked with investigating crimes from the country’s civil war . This extension came hours before the mandates were set to expire without any cases actually having been investigated in the two-year period. The mandates have been extended for another year. However, some critics believe one [...]

The Constitutional Court of Romania declined on Thursday to rule on a controversial decree decriminalizing certain corruption offenses. The decree was introduced by the government last week and then referred to the court for review, but the ruling Social Democrats withdrew the decree two days after the referral due to massive protests. The court has [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld a lower court decision blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration. In a per curiam decision, the three-judge panel held, “that the Government has not shown a likelihood of success on the merits of its appeal, nor has it shown that failure [...]

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe on Thursday filed a legal challenge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia in an attempt to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) . On Wednesday, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) officially granted an easement to the DAPL developer . The Cheyenne [...]

A three-judge panel in North Carolina issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday that limits a law stripping the state’s new governor, Roy Cooper , of some of his powers. The law required Senate approval for the Governor’s Cabinet nominees, a measure never required before. Cooper and his fellow Democrats have been critical of the measure [...]

The Texas Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that would effectively ban so-called sanctuary cities, requiring cities to be in compliance with federal immigration law. SB 4 would require law enforcement in cities and on college campuses to hold an arrested person in custody until immigration officials look into their immigration status. It would also [...]

The High Court of Kenya ruled Thursday that a government order to close the world’s largest refugee camp is unconstitutional. Dadaab, a camp to more than 200,000 people, would have been forced to shut down and send its inhabitants back to war-torn Somalia . The judge who halted the order said the government failed to [...]

The Mississippi House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday that would allow execution by firing squad, nitrogen gas or electrocution if the current method of execution, lethal injection, is deemed unconstitutional by a court. The legislation outlines a process wherein nitrogen gas is the first alternative, followed by the firing squad, then electrocution. Various cases [...]