A Kenyan ban on plastic bags officially went into effect Monday, six months after it was announced in February. The ban applies to Kenyans producing, selling or using plastic bags and carries a punishment...
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US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that will lift an Obama-era directive that restricted local police agencies' access to military equipment. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke Monday morning to the...
Kenya Supreme Court ordered the election commission on Monday to allow Raila Odinga's National Super Alliance (NASA) and Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee Party limited access to its computer servers and electronic devices to assess the vote-count for themselves to verify the...
Civil rights groups on Monday filed two separate lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the US military. Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN filed a complaint in the US District Court...
Guatemala's Constitutional Court issued an order Sunday blocking the expulsion of the lead UN anti-corruption official only hours after President Jimmy Morales ordered his expulsion. Morales argued that Ivan Velasquez, head of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG)...
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: A South Korean court sentenced billionaire head of Samsung Lee Jae-yong to five years in jail for bribery on Friday. Former Thai prime minister Yingluck...
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: US President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio . A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of...
US President Donald Trump on Friday directed the Secretaries of the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS) to continue prior policies banning transgender individuals from military service. The ban had been lifted...
US President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio . In a brief announcement issued Friday night, the White House said that Arpaio's military service and law enforcement tenure warranted...
A South Korean court sentenced billionaire head of Samsung Lee Jae-yong to five years in jail for bribery on Friday. The Seoul Central District Court found that Lee paid former president...
