US President Barack Obama on Monday announced a set of new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power plant pollution regulations designed to improve air quality and reduce green house gas emissions. The so-called “Clean Power Plan” sets carbon and other pollutant emission standards for states and requires them to submit plans to meet the standards by [...]

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Attorney General Salem Saeed Kubaish announced Sunday that the country has indicted 41 people for attempting to organize a terrorist organization. According to the announcement , the suspects created the ‘Al Manara Youth Group’ and collected guns, ammunition, and funding in an effort to start its own country based on [...]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton , along with a former state legislator, were indicted on felony securities fraud, it was reported on Saturday. Officials said that the three-count indictment against Paxton was handed up on Tuesday, and is to be unsealed on Monday when Paxton is expected to turn himself in to authorities at the [...]

The British and French governments have warned in a joint article by British Home Secretary Theresa May and French Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve that the world is facing a “global migration crisis.” The two government officials stressed that countries must make dealing with the increasing number of migrants a top priority. Britain and [...]

Iraq’s Parliament on Sunday warned that the UN decision to close many of the country’s health clinics will have a “profound effect” on its people. The parliament announced that the decision will affect over 3 million refugees within the country and at least half a million children. Abdulhussein Mousawi, a member of the parliament’s health [...]

An Egyptian court on Sunday postponed the announcing of a verdict for three retried Al Jazeera English journalists until August 29. Judge Ahmed Yousry, in justifying the retrial’s tenth adjournment , stated that the decision was made because the accused were not present for security reasons. Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed, Canadian national Mohamed Fahmy and [...]

A United Nations expert on Friday exposed the worsening situation in ISIL controlled territory where an estimated eight million people are currently living in fear. According to Ben Emmerson , the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, ISIL terrorists staged deadly ambushes against people [...]

Dylann Roof, the man charged with killing nine black church members attending Emanuel AME Church in Charleston last month, entered a ‘temporary’ not guilty plea Friday. Roof has been indicted on 33 charges including federal hate crimes and firearms charges for killing and attempting to kill African-Americans based on race and in an effort to [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Hammer, of Wayne State University Law School, discusses the controversy surrounding Caitlyn Jenner and rights for transgender individuals… Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up, and so the door of my heart can be left open, the door of compassion. Call Me By My True Names [...]

A Mexican judge temporarily suspended a US extradition order on Friday for drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman , even though the federal attorney general’s office had approved the order earlier that day. No reason was given for the suspension . Guzman, a notorious drug lord and trafficker, escaped from a maximum security prison in [...]