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A group of former Republican legal officials filed an amicus brief Monday in support of a January 2024 trial date in former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference criminal case. The amicus brief cites the Speedy Trial Act and Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution to justify the need for a speedy resolution. The brief [...]

On Thursday, a federal judge formally imposed a death sentence on Robert Bowers, the man convicted of shooting and killing 11 people inside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Previously, on June 16, a separate federal jury convicted Bowers on 63 counts, including 11 capital offenses, which made Bowers eligible for the death penalty. [...]

The Parliament of Ghana passed a bill on Friday that prohibits the practice of accusing others of witchcraft and criminalizes the declaration, accusation, naming or labelling of another person as a witch. The goal of the bill is address the persecution of people accused of witchcraft. The bill was put forward as an amendment to [...]

A Pennsylvania federal jury on Thursday found the gunman responsible for the shooting deaths of 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania eligible for the death penalty. Robert Bowers now faces an additional trial in which the same jury will determine whether he should be sentenced to death or given life [...]

The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced on Monday that it was charging Gal Luft, the co-director of a US think tank, with acting as an unregistered agent of China, arms trafficking and sanctions violations. Luft was previously arrested in Cyprus in February. “As alleged, the defendant engaged in multiple schemes [...]

The Privileges Committee of the House of Commons named eight members of Parliament (MPs) on Thursday who they say undermined the work of the government’s inquiry into whether or not Boris Johnson misled Parliament. They 14-page report explained how some members, outside of Parliament, from both the House of Commons and House of Lords went [...]

A Brooklyn, New York, jury on Tuesday convicted a former New York City police sergeant and two others for acting as illegal agents of Chinese authorities when they attempted to intimidate US residents to return to China. Michael McMahon, a former New York City police sergeant, faces up to 20 years in prison. The other [...]

On June 6, 2023, an en banc panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1), the “felon in possession of a firearm” statute, is unconstitutional as applied to one individual, Bryan Range. While the decision purports to be “a narrow one” the rationale that underpins the [...]

In a letter addressed to LGBTQ+ campaigner Peter Tatchell, the Metropolitan Police (Met) Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley became the first UK police chief to apologize on Wednesday for the force’s homophobic failings. Rowely accepted that the Met “had systems and processes in place which have led to bias and discrimination in the law we have [...]

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Monday was declared to be under investigation by the parliamentary commissioner for standards based on allegations of breaching member of Parliament (MP) rules. Sunak allegedly failed to be “open and frank” in declaring his interest in the childcare agency, Koru Kids, in which his wife, Akshata Murty, is a shareholder. [...]