Meta Platforms, Inc. on Wednesday was ordered to pay $25 billion in civil penalties after a New Mexico court found that Facebook repeatedly misled consumers about its data privacy practices, third-party access to personal information, and efforts to address misinformation and hate speech. The ruling follows a September jury verdict finding nearly 44 million violations [...]

Ohio State University disputed findings issued Wednesday by the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, which concluded that Ohio State’s College of Medicine discriminates on the basis of race in admissions, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision restricting the use of race [...]

In a succinct unsigned opinion, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s request to stay an injunction that would bar implementation of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy denying gender-affirming care to transgender inmates in federal prisons. Justices Thomas and Alito would have granted the administration’s call for a stay. This [...]

After a three-day visit to the country, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Tuesday urged Bangladesh to end child marriage and close the gaps in national law that still allow it. In a statement released on October 20, Russell called for immediate investment in Bangladesh’s children. Her first priority was ending child marriage and keeping [...]

Non-profit organization Liberty Justice Center, on behalf of US food importer Gellert Global Group, initiated a lawsuit on Tuesday against US President Donald Trump’s administration’s latest tariffs on imports from Canada. The lawsuit argues the duties represent another attempt to use a Depression-era trade statute, Section 338, to exceed his power as president and claim [...]

The US District Court for the Northern District of Missouri on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) against xAI and MZX Tech. Judge Debra Brown said that the Clean Air Act (CAA) gives the administrator of the EPA the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged the European Union (EU), Belgium and Denmark to press Vietnamese President To Lam to address the country’s deteriorating human rights situation during his October 19–24 visit to Europe. HRW said that Vietnam’s government has intensified its crackdown on basic freedoms, including freedom of expression, peaceful activism, and independent [...]

The preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge Timothy Kelly blocking the executive exclusion of CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO from the White House complex is being widely heralded as a triumphant vindication of the Free Press clause. In his 26-page opinion, Judge Kelly unmasked the state’s post-hoc national security justifications, finding that the blanket [...]

I was scrolling through Instagram stories when I came across a post by a man I knew, though not closely. Since the recent war and the growing fear that Donald Trump might destroy Iran, his attitude toward the Islamic Republic seemed to have changed. He had begun to defend the government, or at least to [...]