Idaho Governor CL "Butch" Otter , issued his first veto of 2016 on Tuesday, striking legislation that provided for the use of the Christian Bible in public school. The legislation explicitly allowed the Bible to be referenced in...
Following a court decision in Brussels Thursday, Belgian authorities agreed to extradite Paris attack suspect, Salah Abdeslam, to France. Abdeslam was captured in Brussels four days before terror attacks struck an airport and metro station in...
Turkey has been forcibly returning up to 100 refugees to Syria per day, since mid-January, Amnesty International (AI) reported Friday. In addition to Turkish authorities rounding-up refugees in migrant camps near the border, AI has also...
Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Wednesday granted the military police powers to arrest and detain suspected criminals. The junta leader issued a decree called "Suppression of wrongdoings that could threaten Thai economy and society,"...
Hertz Schram PC , a southeastern Michigan firm, filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of the children in Flint, Michigan, who were injured by exposure to the high levels of lead in the city's drinking water...
Matthew Doyle , a 47 year-old British man, has been charged with inciting racial hatred after posting a series of Islamophobic tweets from his private Twitter account on March 23, following the attacks in Brussels . One...
Amnesty International (AI) expressed concern Friday over the conviction of journalist Alaa Brinji by the Saudi Arabian Specialized Criminal Court. Alaa Brinji has been in detention since May 2014 and has not been allowed access to...
UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ivan Šimonović expressed concern Tuesday over the deteriorating human rights situation in Burundi. The violence has come with the emergence of armed groups opposed to the government and has the...
France's highest court, the Court of Cassation , ruled Tuesday that phone tapped conversations between Nicolas Sarkozy and his lawyer were legal. Beginning in 2013, investigators recorded conversations between the former French president and his...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the city of Ferguson, Missouri, filed a settlement agreement on Thursday to conclude a lawsuit brought by the federal government last month. The settlement proposes an overhaul...