President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday urging states to scale back school immunization requirements and directing the attorney general to pursue litigation against states that fail to provide religious and medical exemptions. The order declares a set of “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations” that would reduce the list of diseases against which all [...]
Many Americans learned how to recite the Pledge of Allegiance even before we learned how to read it. Recited hand over heart, it ends with a promise: liberty and justice for all. What most Americans don’t know is that for millions of people living within our borders, that promise is being tested every day in [...]
The Hong Kong Court of Appeal on Monday granted leave to 11 applicants to appeal their national security convictions to the city’s apex court. The applicants were among the 45 pan-democratic activists who were convicted of subversion in November 2024 for their alleged roles in the July 2020 pro-democracy unofficial primary election. The appellate court [...]
Pakistan on Thursday announced its implementation of the Foreign Media Facilitation Guidelines 2026 (the Guidelines), imposing strict regulatory limits on foreign journalists and local nationals working for international media outlets. The six-page document mandates that all international media operations and their personnel register directly with the External Publicity Wing of the Ministry of Information and [...]
The United Nations reported on Friday that the cost of key foods increased in July as a result of searing heatwaves and ongoing geopolitical instability, which have affected global energy prices amid persistent hunger risks in multiple countries. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the Food Price Index (FPI) averaged 131.1 points [...]
Three environmental advocacy groups, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit against the New York State Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday, accusing the DOH of failing to protect tenants, especially children, from lead poisoning due to inadequate enforcement of the state’s Proactive Lead Inspection Law (PLIL), which took effect in November 2025. The suit focuses [...]
UN human rights experts on Thursday condemned the recent actions of threats and coercion by the United States against Cuba, asking the Security Council and the General Assembly to discuss the matter urgently. Stressing US contraventions of Article 2 of the UN Charter, the experts called out the international community for its lack of action, [...]
A US federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump likely lacks legal authority to demolish and rebuild portions of the White House without congressional approval. The ruling upholds an order that halts above-ground construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, setting up a Supreme Court test of how far a president can go in reshaping [...]
Amnesty International on Wednesday reported that Indigenous leaders Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán were released from Guatemalan prison and continue their criminal cases under house arrest, more than 15 months after they were detained over their role in protests that followed the country’s disputed 2023 election period. Pacheco and Chaclán were arrested on April 23, [...]
US President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday directing federal agencies to withhold citizenship from certain children born on US soil, reviving a policy the Supreme Court rejected five weeks earlier and setting up a fresh test of how far a president may narrow a constitutional guarantee by decree. The orders follow the court’s [...]
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