Illinois Cook County Circuit Court Judge Sophia Hall on Friday allowed two lawsuits challenging the state's ban on same-sex marriage to proceed to trial. This could permit Illinois state courts to decide whether same-sex couples...
An Indian court on Monday convicted Lalu Prasad Yadav, a former federal minister of India's state of Bihar and current MP, of corruption, criminal conspiracy and cheating. Yadav and 44 others were found guilty of conspiracy and...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Planned Parenthood and more than 19 other health organizations across Texas jointly filed a lawsuit Friday in federal court to block two provisions of provisions of a Texas abortion...
Several Maryland residents, gun store owners and gun rights advocates have filed two lawsuits and a restraining order Thursday and Friday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland to block the implementation...
US International Trade Commission (ITC) Judge Thomas Pender on Monday issued a preliminary ruling holding that HTC infringed on two patents for mobile technology held by Nokia . The patents have to...
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Tuesday offered to assist in prosecuting those behind the Nairobi Westgate shopping mall attack. Somali Islamist group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday condemned the terrorist attack at a Nairobi shopping mall and urged the perpetrators to be brought to justice quickly. On Saturday, a group of armed fighters stormed the Westgate...
A member of the Russian feminist rock group Pussy Riot , Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, launched a hunger strike Monday in protest of living conditions and death threats from the deputy head of the prison in...
FBI powers have expanded rapidly in the wake of the 9/11 attacks , according to a report released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , which called on the...
Paulo Pinheiro, the chairman of the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria , said Monday that the vast majority of Syrian casualties are killed in unlawful conventional weapon attacks and called for an end to weapons...