December 20, 2015 US levies sanctions against 12 Russians The U.S. is imposing sanctions against 12 Russians under a law named after Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who alleged in 2008 that organized criminals colluded with a Russian government official to claim a fraudulent $230 million tax rebate.
December 20, 2015 DHS allows German home-schooling family to stay in US A German home-schooling family facing deportation following the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear their appeal is being allowed to stay in the U.S.
November 2, 2015 Judge slaps down U.N. on sex crimes reporting The United Nations’ suspension of a top human rights official who passed evidence to French authorities of rape and sexual abuse of starving children in the Central African Republic by French and African troops last year was unlawful, a U.N. judge has ruled.
