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Ohio grand jury declines to indict in police shooting

December 29, 2015 11:57:02 AM

An Ohio grand jury decided on Monday not to indict two officers involved in a 2014 shooting resulting in the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. In November 2014 officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback were dispatched to...

December 28, 2015 01:27:09 PM

China passed a new anti-terrorism law on Sunday which requires technology companies to provide information to the government obtained from their products and make information systems "secure and controllable." The law also restricts media organizations...

November 3, 2015 09:39:06 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Meghan J. Ryan of Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law discusses the controversy surrounding Richard Eugene Glossip's Oklahoma death penalty sentence... The recent activity surrounding the scheduled execution of Oklahoma's Richard Eugene Glossip has once again...

October 11, 2015 12:44:39 PM

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday issued a temporary stay on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new Clean Water Rule (Rule) that defines "waters of the US." In a...

October 11, 2015 12:33:45 PM

The Governor of California on Saturday enacted a new chapter of the California Food and Agricultural Code to enhance the regulation of antibiotic use on farm animals in the state. The new policy is more...

October 3, 2015 11:43:21 AM

The interim government of Burkina Faso on Thursday apprehended the leader of the week-long military coup in September, announcing that he will face military justice. Gilbert Diendere was a general in the national army and the...

September 28, 2015 12:55:59 PM

Lebanese journalist Karma Khayat was fined €10,000 Monday following her refusal to take down Internet videos made in 2012. The videos risked exposing the identities of witnesses in the case of the 2005 assassination of former prime...

September 28, 2015 09:20:36 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law discusses the latest cyber security agreement between China and the US... It is a longstanding fiction that the Chinese word for "crisis" is composed of elements that signify "danger"...

September 3, 2015 02:09:52 PM

The Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA) , in partnership with the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School released a report Wednesday estimating that between 80,000 to 100,000 prisoners were in...

August 28, 2015 11:14:17 AM

Google filed a response Thursday to the European Commission (EC) , rejecting EU antitrust charges that Google structures its search results to favor its own services over those of rivals. The EU's investigation of Google over...

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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty extended indefinitely

On May 11, 1995, over 170 signatory nations agreed to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) indefinitely. The NPT is an agreement signed by 189 countries to control the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear technology based on the principles of disarmament, non-proliferation, and the use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. The treaty was opened for signature in 1968 with a provision for review conferences every five years. During the 1995 review conference in New York City, member countries decided to keep the treaty open indefinitely. Learn more about the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty from the United Nations.

Massachusetts repealed law banning Christmas

On May 11, 1682, the Massachusetts General Court repealed two laws that had banned the celebration of Christmas and had authorized capital punishment for expelled Quakers returning to the colony. Learn more about the state's ban on Christmas.