The Texas House on Monday approvedSB 1978, “relating to the protection of membership in, affiliation with, and support provided to religious organizations.” The bill was proposed to the Senate three months after the San Antonio city Council voted to ban Chick-fil-A from the airport due to anti-LGBTQ statements and actions. The proposed bill seeks to [...]

Police in Sri Lanka have arrested a bureaucrat attached to a parliamentary department for “aiding and abetting” Zahran Hashim, a suicide bomber allegedly responsible for one of multiple bomb attacks targeting churches and hotels across the country last month. Hundreds of people, including foreigners, were killed and injured in the terrorist bombings, in some of [...]

Judge Amit Mehta of the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on Monday that the House Oversight Committee’s April 22 subpoena of Mazars, the company that manages President Donald Trump’s private finances and holds his financial records, was within the committee’s authority. House Chair Elijah Cummings moved to compel these records following [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memo Monday arguing that Congress may not constitutionally compel senior presidential advisors to testify about their official duties, referring to an April 22 subpoena of former Counsel to the President Donald McGahn to testify on matters regarding the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The House Judiciary [...]

The Maldives High Court on Monday overturned ex-Vice President Ahmed Adeeb‘s conviction on terrorism charges and ordered a new trial and investigation into the alleged attempted assassination of former President Yameen Abdul Gayoom. Adeeb was arrested and originally convicted of corruption and attempted assassination and terrorism charges when an explosion occurred on Yameen’s boat in September [...]

The Provincial Court in Gdansk, northern Poland, on Monday found two founders of a notorious pyramid scheme guilty of fraud for cheating thousands of people out of their savings, worth $219 million. The scam, called Amber Gold, cheated some 19,000 investors out of over 850 million zlotys (USD $220.91 million) between 2009 and 2012. Almost [...]

Swedish prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson on Monday requested the District Court of Sweden to detain WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his absence. Assange is currently in prison serving 25 weeks of a 50-week sentence in the UK after hiding in the Embassy of Ecuador in London for almost seven years. After serving his sentence in the [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday for Merck, Sharp & Dohme that federal preemption of drug warnings is a question for judges. Merck, Sharp & Dohme manufactures the drug Fosamax to treat and prevent osteoporosis in older women. The drug has had a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) label approved since 1995, but the label [...]

The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons and the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society released a report Monday calling for a UN investigation into torture in the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir perpetuated by the Indian State. The report creates a comprehensive understanding of the patterns, targets and impacts of torture by tracing [...]

The US Supreme Court held Monday in Herrera v. Wyoming that hunting rights provided to a western American Indian tribe, the Crow Tribe, via federal treaty did not expire when Wyoming became a state. It also determined that the term “unoccupied” in the same federal treaty that granted hunting access was still valid and that [...]