The US and Canada signed a new trade deal Monday to replace the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “Late last night, our deadline, we reached a wonderful new Trade Deal with Canada,” tweeted US President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning, “to be added into the deal already reached with Mexico. The new name [...]

UK Prime Minister Theresa May  announced Tuesday that all couples will now have the choice to enter into a civil partnership rather than to get married. May stated that allowing this union for all couples was necessary since some individuals “want to formalize their relationship but don’t necessarily want to get married.” This change stems [...]

The Trump administration on Monday began to implement its new policy  of denying visas to unmarried, same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and employees of the UN. The G-4 Visa  is used for family members of foreigners working in the US on behalf of a foreign government or international agencies. The visa also allows for family [...]

California Governor Jerry Brown  signed a bill  into law on Sunday that will require public corporations to include more women on their boards of directors. State Senators Toni Atkins and Hannah-Beth Jackson  introduced  Senate Bill 826, citing a report that one-fourth of California’s companies have no women sitting on their boards. According to their research, achieving gender parity [...]

The International Court of Justice ruled on Monday that landlocked Bolivia cannot force neighboring, coastal Chile to grant it access to a portion of the Pacific Ocean Chile presently controls. “The Court is unable to conclude, on the basis of the material submitted to it, that Chile has the obligation to negotiate with Bolivia in [...]

The US Supreme Court  heard oral arguments in two cases on Monday, marking the beginning of its 2018 term. At issue in Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service  is whether the Endangered Species Act  forbids an agency to designate private property as an “unoccupied critical habitat” if the land is not essential to species conservation. There is [...]

California Governor Jerry Brown  signed  a bill  Sunday that would allow past marijuana convictions to be recalled or dismissed if the conviction would no longer violate the law due to the passage of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use Marijuana Act (AUMA). AUMA legalized, among other things, possession of up to 28.5 grams of [...]

A referendum in Macedonia to change the country’s name to “The Republic of North Macedonia” garnered a 94.2 percent “yes” vote Sunday, but only 36.8 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots. Despite the low turnout, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev accepts the result and says he and the government will move forward with bringing the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday upheld  New York’s Zero Emissions Credit (ZEC) program, which provides subsidies to specific nuclear power plants in New York for being greenhouse gas-emission free sources of energy. In the first two years of the program, the FitzPatrick, Ginna and Nine Mile Point nuclear power [...]

An Egyptian court on Sunday ordered the retrial of Muslim Brotherhood  leader Mohamed Badie and other prominent members from the group after new evidence arose from a February 2015 ruling. State news agency MENA reported  that the retrial relates to a case in which “Badie and 14 others were handed life sentences for incitement to [...]