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 record during his October 19–24 visit to Europe. HRW alleged 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 [...]

Eric Ngone is a member of the JURIST News staff and an occasional contributor based in Kenya. He is a fourth-year law student at Egerton School of Law. Kenya’s Mombasa Law Court has found controversial religious leader Paul Mackenzie guilty in a case involving the deaths of more than 190 children linked to the Shakahola [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk conveyed to the Committee on World Food Security on Monday that while legal instruments safeguarding the fundamental right to food have been strengthened in recent years, these theoretical protections have yet to manifest into access to adequate or consistent food for over a quarter of the world’s [...]

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday announced that state prosecutors have obtained an arrest warrant for former Cuban president Raúl Castro. Castro is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with a 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes flying over international waters.   In a statement, Uthmeier said: Raúl Castro ordered the [...]

The UN warned on Monday that armed groups in Haiti are adapting their reprisals against civilians as security forces intensify their operations, which has exacerbated the security crisis and led to the indefinite postponement of legislative elections that had been scheduled for December 13. UN experts on Haiti presented a briefing to the UN Security [...]

Alexandra Bennett is JURIST’s Global Chief of Staff and an occasional contributor. She is a JD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she serves as a Senior Development Editor on Law Review, and is concurrently pursuing an LLM in International Business Law at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. At 9 a.m. [...]