Rosmah Mansor, wife of former Malaysia prime minister Najib Razak, was charged on Wednesday with accepting a bribe in relation to a government solar power project. Rosmah Mansor was charged with accepting a 5 million ringgit (USD $1.2 million) payment through her aide from a manager at Jepak Holdings as a kickback for helping secure [...]

The Canadian government proposed changes to its asylum laws Tuesday via a recently tabled omnibus budget bill. If approved, the omnibus bill would include provisions to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that would prevent refugees from seeking asylum in Canada if they have made asylum claims in other countries. Division 16 of Part 4 [...]

New Zealand’s Parliament has on Wednesday passed a law banning semiautomatic weapons in response to the Christchurch massacre last month that killed 50 and injured scores of Muslim worshippers. The legislation has passed the final of three stages and will become law with the ceremonial approval of the Queen of England’s delegate expected Thursday. 119 [...]

Amnesty International reported on Wednesday that global executions fell by nearly one-third last year to the lowest figure in at least a decade. In its 2018 global review of the death penalty, Amnesty assed known executions worldwide, except in China, where executions thought to be in the thousands remain classified as a state secret. Kumi [...]

Sixteen parents involved in a college admissions scandal were charged Tuesday in a second indictment by a federal grand jury in Boston with conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering. The indictment comes just a day after 14 of their co-defendants said they would plead guilty for their role in an alleged multimillion-dollar conspiracy that cheated college [...]

Following Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s signing of four gun control laws on Tuesday, Pittsburgh residents filed a lawsuit with the help of the National Rifle Association (NRA) challenging the interpretation of “large capacity magazines” in one of the laws. The case in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas is styled Anderson v. City of Pittsburgh. The [...]

Judge John Koeltl of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Monday that several young immigrants who were deemed to have been abused or neglected by their parents could not be denied special immigration juvenile status by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) department of citizenship and immigration services. The ruling [...]

US Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Deb Fischer (R-NE) on Tuesday introduced a bill to protect consumers from exploitative and deceptive practices by certain large online platforms that trick consumers into providing their personal data for commercial exploitation. The practices are referred to as “dark patterns” because they are created using extensive behavioral psychology research to [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday that it indicted 24 individuals for their part in a $1.2 billion health care fraud scheme involving telemedicine and durable medical equipment (DME). The individuals charged include three licensed professionals, CEOs and COOs of telemedicine companies, and the owners of dozens of DME companies. The scheme involved [...]

Attorneys for Yahoo submitted a proposal to the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday to settle a class action data breach lawsuit. This proposal is Yahoo’s second attempt to settle a series of data breaches that occurred between 2013 and 2016. US District Judge Lucy Koh rejected a previous version due [...]