A group of former NFL cheerleaders filed a lawsuit against the National Football League (NFL) on Wednesday over wages. The complaint states that the league underpaid them and prohibited cheerleaders on one team to compare wages with those...
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The nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC) filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of illegally rescinding a rule that reduced the discharge of mercury from dental offices. The complaint...
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nomination of Jeff Sessions for US attorney general on Wednesday. All 11 Republicans on the committee backed Sessions' nomination, while all nine Democrats opposed him. It is estimated the full Senate...
Leaders of multiple African countries announced Wednesday that they have backed a "strategy of collective withdrawal" from the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Prior to this weeks' African Union (AU) summit, the AU issued a document seen...
Myanmar police announced on Wednesday that they have arrested four people in connection with the killing of prominent Muslim human rights lawyer, U Ko Ni. The lawyer was shot in the head at Yangon International Airport...
Russian news agencies reported Wednesday that three Federal Security Service (FSB) officials and one executive from the Kaspersky Labs cyber security company have been charged with treason. Two of the FSB officials have been identified as Sergei...
Turkish Labour Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said Tuesday that authorities have dismissed more than 90,000 public servants for alleged connections to a coup attempt in July. Critics say the purge is targeted to any political opposition to President Recep...
A group of UN human rights experts on Wednesday said the executive order on immigration signed by US President Donald Trump breaches international human rights obligations . The order , signed last Friday, bars all nationals from...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) have criticized the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines as part of the war on drugs in the country. AI released a report on Tuesday related...
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Charter Communications Inc.'s subsidiary Spectrum for allegedly failing to deliver promised Internet speeds to customers. The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme...
