The Israeli military on Wednesday released its findings of the investigation of the 2014 50-day war episode known as “Black Friday,” saying no wrongdoing occurred on behalf of the military in response to the attacks in Rafah. “Black Friday” is known as one of the deadliest episodes in the Gaza Strip during the 50-day war. [...]
UN human rights experts expressed concern in a report Thursday that workers decontaminating the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan are at grave risk of exploitation. Tens of thousands of workers have been recruited over the past seven years since the disaster, including migrants, asylum seekers and homeless individuals. The report states: The people most [...]
A Baltimore federal judge on Tuesday declined the Trump administration’s request to shield information it employed when deciding to ban transgender people from the US military. The lawsuit , filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , is on behalf of more than one dozen transgender people serving or who want to serve in the military. [...]
A panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday vacated a lower court’s decision dismissing a suit against the Department of Homeland Security for confiscating photos of law enforcement officials at the border. The photos were taken by activist Christian Ramirez in 2010 on a pedestrian bridge near the US-Mexican border. Ramirez observed a [...]
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by a group of congresspeople against the General Services Administration (GSA) seeking the disclosure of documents related to the lease and operations of the Trump Hotel Washington. The plaintiffs, 17 democratic members of the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, filed the lawsuit [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of New Hampshire on Tuesday ruled against New Hampshire’s “signature match” law , which has prevented hundreds of absentee voters from voting because of handwriting discrepancies. RSA 659:50 requires that signatures on “affidavit appear to be executed by the same person who signed the application.” If the signature [...]
The New Zealand Parliament on Wednesday approved the Overseas Investment Amendment Bill , which forbids non-resident foreigners from buying existing homes. The legislation was a key campaign pledge made by the New Zealand Labor Party during last year’s elections . Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made foreign housing buying a political issue last campaign and claimed that housing speculation [...]
A grand jury report released by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro on Tuesday found that the Roman Catholic Church covered up more than 1,000 sexual abuse allegations against more than 300 priests across six Pennsylvania dioceses. The report comprised the findings of the Fortieth statewide investigating grand jury , a grand jury convened in 2016 by [...]
The UK in EU Challenge group, an anti-Brexit organization consisting largely of British expatriates living in Spain, France and Italy, filed a new legal challenge to Brexit Tuesday alleging that the referendum vote was not a fair vote and the results should therefore be invalidated. The challenge states that, under European law, an EU nation [...]
The plaintiffs in the Hawaii v. Trump travel ban challenge voluntarily dismissed their action in federal district court Monday. The third version of the controversial travel ban was upheld at the end of the last Supreme Court term. The travel ban was deemed to be within the scope of the executive’s powers in the 5-4 [...]
