Deutsche Bank on Friday announced a $7.2 billion settlement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding the sale of toxic mortgage securities that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis . The terms...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Thursday ruled that State Technical College of Missouri cannot continue mandatory drug tests for all students. After preliminary injunctions and a permanent injunction were...
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution Wednesday to establish an independent panel to investigation possible war crimes in Syria. The resolution, approved by a vote of 105 to 15 against, with 52 abstentions, will establish the International,...
Ohio Governor John Kasich has signed the "campus carry" bill into law . Senate Bill 199 , one of 17 bills Kasich signed Monday, makes it legal to carry concealed weapons at daycare facilities and...
About 71 percent of human trafficking victims are female and one-third are children, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a report released Wednesday. Though many are victims of sexual exploitation and forced labor,...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Wednesday that "eneral and indiscriminate retention" of e-mails and other electronic communications by governments is illegal, in a decision that many believe could create an opportunity for challenges to the...
The use of capital punishment in the US is at a 20-year low, according to a eport by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) Wednesday. Specifically, the report found that while 31 states currently allow the...
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a ban on offshore drilling in almost 120 million acres of federally owned Arctic and Atlantic waters. As a preemptive opposition to President-elect Donald Trump, the goal of the...
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette on Tuesday announced criminal charges against four former state officials in connection with the Flint water crisis. Two former emergency managers, Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose, were charged with four felonies...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Tuesday rejected a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for information about the US government's...