Azerbaijan is convicting exiled critics in absentia based on online activity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday, with sentences reaching up to 16 years in prison. HRW reviewed eight verdicts issued against Azerbaijani nationals living in Europe and the United States by the Baku Courts for Serious Crimes between July 2025 and March 2026. Prosecutors [...]

A new federal investigation has found that severe mismanagement at Camp East Montana immigration detention facility in El Paso, Texas, created unsafe living conditions that contributed to detainee suffering and deaths, while millions in taxpayer dollars were spent inefficiently. According to the report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), an arm of Congress, officials [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday issued a formal legal opinion declaring the approach of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to enforcement of “disparate impact” liability to be unlawful. The theory of disparate impact liability originated in the 1971 Supreme Court decision in Griggs v. Duke Power Co., in which it was [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday that the US entered into bilateral agreements with at least seven African countries to provide healthcare resources in exchange for access to surveillance data and pathogen specimens. The Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with several African governments were signed in 2025 as part of the so-called “America First” Global [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that it will move to revoke citizenship from 17 naturalized citizens. Denaturalization cases are rare; from 1990 through 2017 there were only 305 denaturalization cases, or an average 11 per year. In that same time period, approximately 644,000 immigrants became US citizens each year. Under federal law, [...]

US President Donald Trump nominated Todd Blanche Monday to the position of the country’s 83rd attorney general. Blanche has served as acting attorney general since the resignation of Pam Bondi. He is now in line for the full time position pending Senate confirmation. Blanche began his legal career as a paralegal in the criminal division [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned Monday that the expansion of US sanctions against Cuba is causing widespread harm to the population and endangering lives, calling for the sanctions to be lifted immediately. Türk’s statement identified two overlapping measures: the national emergency declared by President Trump in January, which disrupted fuel shipments [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Monday vacated the $100,000 fee, part of a change in immigration policy, for H-1B visas that President Donald Trump had imposed by proclamation in September. The H-1B visa program allows employers to hire non-immigrant aliens for “specialty occupations” that require expert training [...]

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont on Monday signed Senate Bill 90, which takes a collection of scattered hate crime statutes and creates a comprehensive hate crime code. A press release from the the governor’s office states that the law “will improve the ability of police and prosecutors to charge criminals with hate crimes and seek their [...]

In a written submission, the US Department of Justice (DOJ)  on Friday told federal District Judge Leonie Brinkema that the much-criticized “Anti-Weaponization Fund” has not been created, and will not be going forward. Further, they argued that as the fund does not exist, the lawsuits challenging it are moot. The submission states that Acting US [...]