United States Congress

The United StatesCongress passed the Civil Rights Act, which banned discrimination on grounds of race, colour, religion, or national origin; in the case of employment it also banned discrimination on grounds of gender.

The US Congress sent a fact-finding mission to Yugoslavia to seek to establish the truth of what was happening in NATO 's bombing war on Serbs in the province of Kosovo.

The Guardian newspaper revealed the identity of Edward Snowden , former CIA and National Security Agency employee and computer programmer, who had leaked or made publicly available a huge number of NSA confidential documents about...