A federal judge in Seattle decided Monday to extend a preliminary injunction effectively forbidding a Texan gun-rights activist from publishing plans for untraceable 3D printed firearms. The injunction prevents the federal government from implementing a settlement agreement it had reached in June with Cody Wilson, the activist who intended to publish the plans, that would [...]
US President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US and Mexico have reached an agreement on a new trade deal called the United States-Mexico Trade Agreement, which will ultimately terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). While sitting at the resolute desk, Trump called Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to announce the new deal, which [...]
The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar urged in a report released Monday the investigation and prosecution of Myanmar’s top military generals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Mission “found patterns of gross human rights violations and abuses committed in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States that ‘undoubtedly amount to the gravest [...]
The Internet Association , along with a number of other trade groups, filed a brief in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Monday urging the court to reinstate net neutrality rules. The brief was filed in support of the petitioners, one of which is Mozilla Corporation, who filed suit against the [...]
Former South Korean president Park Geun-Hye was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday by the Seoul High Court in connection with corruption charges and bribes from companies such as Samsung. This ruling extends the former president’s prison sentence by an additional year and increases Park’s fines by 2 billion won for a total [...]
The Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe ruled on Friday that the July presidential election results, which saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s first election victory, were valid. The challenge to the results was brought by the opposition MDC Alliance who nominated Nelson Chamisa for the presidency. The court ruled that it could not change the presidential election results because [...]
A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday allowed a lawsuit filed by residents of both Maryland and Arizona over the census citizenship question to proceed. The lawsuit arises out of an additional question to the 2020 census questionnaire that asks citizens “whether each household member is a citizen of the United States by birth or [...]
Former US intelligence contractor Reality Winner was sentenced to 63 months in prison on Thursday after she accepted a plea deal with federal prosecutors in June. Winner pleaded guilty to charges of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. In May 2017 Winner kept a classified National Security Agency report concerning a Russian cyberattack [...]
The California State Legislature approved a bill Wednesday requiring California prosecutors to erase or reduce tens of thousands of marijuana criminal convictions. The legislation is expected to be signed by Governor Jerry Brown. The California Department of Justice “estimates that almost 220,000 cases are eligible for erasure or reduction. The Department of Justice has until [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday tossed a $3 million verdict against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), saying that GSK could not have warned about the risks of suicide on its drug label for Paxil. GSK is the manufacturer of Paxil, the generic of which is paroxetine, a psychotropic drug often used to treat [...]
