The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday warned that the intensifying conflict in Yemen has cut off life-saving aid to approximately 800,000 people due to severely restricted access to the city of Taizz and other conflict zones. As frontlines shift, roads are blocked, and conflict intensifies, El-Khidir Daloum, WFP representative in Yemen, commented on [...]

In this five-part series, data analyst David Stasior argues that AI has made it possible to turn court and disciplinary records into data at scale, allowing the rule of law to be measured rather than just assumed. Part 1 made the case, and Part 2 put it to work on 24 years of Massachusetts attorney [...]

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday reported that at least 31 people have been executed in Libya after unjust military trials since late August 2026. Bassam Khawaja, HRW’s deputy Middle East and North Africa director, decried the executions, saying: The Libyan Arab Armed Forces are putting people to death after secret trials built on confessions allegedly [...]

US President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled the livestream of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan’s firing-squad execution after bipartisan backlash. Trump stated on Truth Social that he still thought streaming the execution “might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan.” The families of [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case that asks whether federal judges must adhere to commentary on criminal sentencing guidelines created under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. The case implicates questions over the ongoing clash between judicial and administrative interpretative authority, as the court will likely weigh on the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court’s preliminary injunction against Florida’s law restricting minors’ access to social media, holding that the law is likely constitutional under the First Amendment. Writing for a unanimous panel, Judge Kevin Newsom concluded that Florida House Bill 3 (HB3) implicated the social [...]

Sri Lankan Deputy Foreign Minister Arun Hemachandra announced on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday that the Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia quashed the death sentence of Anojan Sivarasa, a 24-year-old Tamil migrant worker arrested in July over a Facebook comment. On September 17, an appellate court increased his sentence from five years’ imprisonment and a fine [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday stated that Iran’s execution of five individuals in one week were based on unfair trials and called on the international community to respond. Between September 30 and October 5, Iran executed five men—Majid Nikandish, Ali Hemmati Sistanian, Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi, Alireza Raisi and Alireza Sepahi—convicted in connection with anti-government protests, prompting [...]

Several state attorneys general on Wednesday filed individual lawsuits in their state courts against the artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI, alleging that the policies of its generative chatbot ChatGPT are harmful to children and deceitful to parents. The states that have filed suits include Iowa, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, West Virginia and Nebraska. The suits [...]