The Kennedy Center fully removed President Donald Trump’s name from its building on Saturday. Kennedy Center Director Matt Floca told a judge in court documents Saturday that the name had been officially reverted. Crews finished the work in the early hours of Saturday, leaving tarps over scaffolding on the building. This development follows the May [...]

The UK government plans to bar under‑16s from using disappearing messages, livestreaming and romantic or sexual AI chatbots as part of a new child online‑safety package, according to reports Friday. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is to outline the plans on Monday, but ministers will set out which specific platforms face an under-16 ban at a [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday gave approval to the merger of two Hollywood studio giants, Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery. Their approval ends the DOJ’s legal analysis of the merger and paves the way for Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros., which, if finalized, would leave all of their assets [...]

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday ordered Trump officials to restore all signs and exhibits in US national parks that were changed as a part of the administration’s efforts to remove any purportedly negative but factual information from the parks that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” President Donald Trump’s 2025 Executive Order (EO) [...]

Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand announced the introduction of a new legislation in the federal parliament that would further strengthen the existing legal framework to prevent goods made with forced labor from entering the Canadian market. Bill C-35, titled “An Act respecting the prohibition of the importation of goods produced by forced labour” [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday granted the Trump administration’s motion to stay a lower court injunction against its 10 percent global tariff, allowing the government to keep collecting the duties from three importers that had won relief while the appeal proceeds. The per curiam order keeps in place a [...]

The ruling Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) abandoned a bill on Friday that would have created a constitution for the Canadian province, after failing to gather the consent of opposing parties for its adoption before the National Assembly broke for summer. Québec Minister of Justice Simon Jolin-Barrette stated that he asked for the consent of the [...]

Vance Boelter, who was accused of murdering Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, pleaded guilty to federal charges Thursday. The plea agreement spares Boelter the federal death penalty. Instead, he will serve two consecutive life terms plus 40 years in prison for the conviction, which also includes the attempted murder of State [...]

The Supreme Court of British Columbia (BC) ruled on Friday that the city of Victoria can enact bylaws to vacate encampments within its authority. This ruling does not prevent the court from reviewing the bylaws’ constitutionality if the petitioners decide to make that challenge. Justice Jacqueline Hughes found that the BC Community Charter authorizes municipalities [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada held on Friday that the individual who holds the office of New Brunswick’s Lieutenant Governor must be able to perform official functions in both the country’s official languages: English and French. A unilingual appointee violates the equality of status between the two languages in the provincial government. Section 16(2) of [...]