The Tennessee General Assembly passed a bill on Friday that will ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected. Under HB2263/SB2196, it will be a class C felony to perform, induce, or attempt to perform or induce an abortion upon a pregnant woman whose unborn child has a fetal heartbeat. A heartbeat can be detected [...]

According to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday, French police stop and search Black and Arab youths even without any indication of wrongdoing. These ‘identity checks’, which can involve invasive bag searches and body pat-downs, are done on children as young as ten. In France, the police have the authority to [...]

The Chinese government charged two Canadian nationals with espionage on Thursday. Both Canadians, former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, were arrested in December 2018. Kovrig stands accused of acquiring state secrets, and Spavor of stealing and selling state secrets. Chinese authorities claim that they now have solid proof that both men committed espionage. [...]

The European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that Hungary’s Law on the Transparency of Organisations Supported from Abroad (Transparency Law) infringed upon European Union (EU) law. In 2017, Hungary adopted a rule that organizations had to register with the Hungarian courts as “an organization in receipt of support from abroad” when donations sent to [...]

Facebook removed a series of President Trump’s campaign ads on Thursday, claiming it violated the company’s policy against organized hate. The ads included an inverted red triangle, a symbol that was used by Nazis to identify political prisoners in concentration camps. A Facebook spokesperson told CNN Business that “We removed these posts and ads for violating [...]

US senators on Tuesday introduced legislation that would reform the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) aircraft certification process. The bill, titled the Aircraft Safety and Reform Act of 2020, seeks to give the FAA more authority over the aircraft certification process.  The proposed legislation is the first attempt at reform after the Boeing 737 MAX crashes [...]

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on Thursday that more than one percent of the worlds population, nearly 80 million people, had been forcibly displaced by the end of last year according to the UNHCR’s global trend report. The UNHCR’s global trend report is an annual study whose goal is to track the [...]

The US Departments of Treasury and State announced Wednesday that the Trump administration was imposing new sanctions on individuals and entities supporting the Assad regime in Syria. These actions were taken both under the Caesar Act and Executive Orders 13894, 13582 and 13573. According to the press release, the sanctions are intended to “hold the murderous [...]

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals held on Tuesday that the Trump administration does not have the authority to compel drug companies to add the price of medicines to their television advertisements. The case overturned a rule published by that Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that required “drug [...]

Rifaat al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad’s uncle, on Wednesday was sentenced to four years in prison by a Paris court for embezzling Syrian state funds to buy millions of dollars worth of property throughout France and the United Kingdom. Rifaat has lived in exile, primarily in France and Spain, since being accused of trying to seize power [...]