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A hot afternoon, a stifling café, the hum of talk around us. A companion nodded toward a woman nearby and asked me: “Who comes to a café wearing skin-tight leggings and carrying an aggressively feminine fake Gucci bag? It doesn’t match, does it, Malek? There’s something aesthetically incoherent about the whole composition—something excessive, almost irritating: [...]

The US District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, effectively blocking Paxton from pursuing a lawsuit against the Democratic Party’s fundraising platform, ActBlue. Federal Judge Richard Stearns chided Paxton for suing ActBlue in an effort to retaliate against the company for promoting and enabling contributions [...]

The French National Assembly on Thursday unanimously voted to repeal texts codifying slavery. MP Max Mathiasin sponsored the bill to repeal the Code Noir, which was first tabled on September 16, 2025. The Code Noir is “a set of texts promulgated between 1685 and 1724 that regulated and codified slavery in the French colonies.” The [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 73 on Wednesday, expanding the state’s election security protections by restricting unauthorized law enforcement access to polling places, banning military personnel from voting locations, and making it a felony to seize ballots ahead of the June 2 statewide primary election. The bill, authored by state Senator Sabrina Cervantes [...]

The United States has been at war with Iran for eight weeks. Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.–Israeli campaign launched on February 28, 2026, has killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, struck targets across twenty-four provinces, and left at least 1,443 Iranian civilians dead—including 217 children. Among the documented strikes: a Tomahawk missile that hit Shajareh Tayyebeh [...]

A California ride-share driver advocacy group filed a complaint Monday in state court against Uber Technologies, Inc., alleging the company violated Proposition 22 and should be barred from classifying its drivers as independent contractors. Rideshare Drivers United (RDU), a California nonprofit representing more than 20,000 app-based drivers in the state, claimed Uber breached the Protect App-Based [...]

Do you approve the text of the law revising Articles 87, paragraph 10, 102, paragraph 1, 104, 105, 106, paragraph 3, 107, paragraph 1, and 110 of the Constitution, approved by Parliament and published in the Official Gazette no. 253 of 30 October 2025 under the title ‘Provisions Governing the Judicial System and the Establishment [...]

A US federal court in Utah on Monday rejected a Republican challenge to enjoin use of the state’s new congressional map, holding that the challenge was unlikely to succeed and it was too close to the 2026 midterm elections to change the map. The new map, called Map 1, approved in December 2025, places a [...]

A judge in Maricopa County Superior Court ordered Friday that Arizona must stop enforcing laws that predate the state’s 2024 Right to Abortion constitutional amendment. Judge Greg Como enjoined the state from enforcing laws that barred abortion if sought for a non-fatal genetic abnormality and that barred the prescription of abortion pills by telehealth.  He [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied an injunction request from California Republicans who had asked the court to block the implementation of a new congressional district map before the 2026 midterm elections. A ballot initiative, Proposition 50, mandates redistricting of California to potentially flip five Republican-held seats to Democrats. Republicans challenged the new map [...]