President Biden Friday pardoned five people convicted of drug- or alcohol-related offenses and one woman who murdered her allegedly abusive husband. All who were pardoned had completed their sentences, and many of them were served decades ago. Those pardoned have built careers and been personally involved with community service since serving their sentences. Biden pardoned [...]
A Hong Kong court Thursday ruled a law that prohibits encouraging others not to vote in an election or to cast an invalid vote is constitutional, the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) reported. The decision came during the prosecution of Jacky So Tsun-Fung, who was charged with one count of evading s27A(1) of [...]
In a virtual hearing Thursday, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court considered whether to intervene in the impeachment of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. Lawyers for Krasner urged the court to declare the proceedings legally baseless. A four judge panel, evenly split between democrats and republicans, is hearing the case. The panel did not say when they [...]
The US House Ways and Means Committee Friday released six years of former President Donald Trump’s individual income tax returns, as well as filings from multiple Trump business entities. The release followed a committee vote to publish its investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Mandatory Audit Program, which was supposed to audit Trump’s tax [...]
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday summoned the Russian Ambassador to Bulgaria, Eleonora Mitrofanova, to protest investigative journalist Christo Grozevon’s inclusion on the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs’ wanted list. Grozev is the Executive Director of Bellingcat, a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group which specializes in professional and citizen reporting on human rights abuses. It is [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court Thursday ruled that Ohio courts do not have to defer to a state agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous law. The judgment arose from a dispute as to whether an engineering firm in Ohio is required to appoint an employee, instead of an independent contractor, to be in “responsible charge” of the [...]
The US House Committees on Oversight and Reform & Energy and Commerce Thursday jointly released a report criticizing the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm. The report says that the FDA and Aduhelm-manufacturer Biogen acted in concert to get the drug approved in a hastened manner despite doubts about Aduhelm’s [...]
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced Thursday ten new measures aimed at reducing youth crime that would be introduced in 2023. Several of these measures relate to motor vehicle offences, while funding will be provided to “fast-track sentencing programs” in an effort to ensure youth offenders are in custody for a longer period of time to [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Thursday revived a Washington State school teacher’s claim that his right to free speech was violated after his principal told him that he could not bring his Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat to training sessions and threatened disciplinary action. The court found that though some [...]
US Virgin Islands (USVI) Attorney General Denise George filed a lawsuit Tuesday against JPMorgan Chase, alleging that the bank ignored suspicious financial activity and received financial gain from Jeffery Epstein’s illegal activities. The suit claims that JPMorgan participated in a sex-trafficking venture, wilfully failed to comply with federal banking law, and engaged in unfair methods [...]
