An Arkansas judge whose participation in a 2017 anti-death penalty rally led to his lifetime ban from hearing capital-punishment cases is asking the state Supreme Court to restore his ability to hear cases involving the death penalty.
Read moreItalian journalists have protested across the country against insults from prominent figures in the governing 5-Star Movement.
Read moreSeveral hundred protestors had a message for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday as they gathered before the nation’s highest court: we won’t be quiet.
Read moreLawyers in Serbia went on strike Monday for a week to protest the weekend killing of a prominent defense lawyer who represented former President Slobodan Milosevic and mafia figures.
Read moreA Denver woman accused of shooting at officers during protests in North Dakota against the Dakota Access oil pipeline was sentenced Wednesday to four years and nine months in federal prison.
Read moreOn Chinese state television broadcasts, President Xi Jinping is often shown clad in battle fatigues inspecting troops, praising their service, and hailing the People’s Liberation Army as key to the country’s rising global power.
Read moreThe New York City Police Department could pay a heavy price for its careless detonation of military-grade sound cannons, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday, setting the stage for trial.
Read moreA doctor who says he is bound by the teachings of Jesus Christ to provide care for the sick, claims in court the U.S. Forest Service violated his right to religious freedom by refusing him access to a woman who has been sitting in a tree protesting the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
Read moreProtesters who claim they were pummeled by security guards during a demonstration outside the Turkish embassy last summer sued their alleged attackers and the regime they represent in federal court.
Read moreA Virginia State Senator sued the National Forest Service Wednesday claiming officials are unlawfully blocking access to blocking access to a road where a group of protesters are demonstrating against a gas pipeline project.
Read moreWorkers and activists marked May Day on Tuesday with rallies to demand their government address labor issues.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel appeared poised to allow President Donald Trump supporters pursue their negligence claims against San Jose, California, regarding a dust-up between them and protesters at a campaign rally in 2016.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday upheld a California high school’s firing of a longtime campus supervisor for encouraging students to film police officers arresting a black student during a 2014 schoolyard melee.
Read moreA Superior Court judge in the District of Columbia on Thursday moved to limit the scope of search warrants obtained by federal investigators for Facebook data in connection with an ongoing investigation into rioting during President Trump’s inauguration.
Read more(CN) – Hundreds of protesters converged on the University of Florida campus Thursday ahead of a planned speech by white
Read moreFour people arrested at a Pennsylvania pipeline protest in 2016 claim the backers of the project and local law enforcement violated their constitutional rights by fabricating evidence against them and later trying to intimidate them through ongoing aerial surveillance and other means.
Read moreDozens of Howard University students loudly protested Friday during the entirety of former FBI director James Comey’s convocation address to the incoming class.
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Ugandan police on Thursday fired tear gas to disperse protesters and arrested dozens of people opposed to plans to introduce legislation that could allow the longtime president to extend his rule.
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Several hundred Buddhist nationalists, including monks, rallied in Myanmar’s largest city on Wednesday to urge stronger action against insurgents from the Muslim Rohingya minority for attacks on police last week.
Read moreAfter drawing heavy criticism for defending organizers of the white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday it will no longer represent hate groups that demonstrate with loaded firearms.
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