The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that a federal statute requiring people to be 21 to purchase handguns from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) conflicts with previous ...

Myanmar's ruling military extended a state of emergency for another six months, a day ahead of the fourth anniversary of the coup, reported by the state-owned Myawaddy Media on Friday. The military ...

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced Thursday to accelerate the enactment of a law that allows wiretapping of children under 15 to combat organized crime in the country.  The law would ...

A New York appeals court on Thursday reversed a lower court's decision that found the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act (NYVRA) violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. The Second ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held on Thursday that Italy violated applicant residents' rights to life and respect for private and family life under the European Convention on Human ...

Sharon Basch is a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law filing occasional dispatches from Washington DC ths semester.  From the moment Donald Trump took office on January 20, one of his ...

Germany's Parliament passed a motion for stricter migration rules on Wednesday. The nonbinding motion, backed by the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), calls for permanent border ...

Human Rights Watch urged Kazakhstan to implement the recommendations from member states at the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review on Thursday. With 103 state delegates, the UN Human ...

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act (the 'Act') into law Wednesday, which will require the Department of Homeland ...

The Republican-led US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday advanced President Donald Trumps' Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi. The full Senate will vote on her confirmation as early as this ...

In a move that intensifies the national debate over how race and gender are taught in American schools, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at championing ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump's administration dropped the criminal proceedings against Trump's co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliviera, in the classified ...