The European Commission announced Monday that it is commencing formal proceedings against social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) under the landmark European Union (EU) Digital Services Act (DSA). The proceedings against X  are the first to be launched by the EU under the new regulations, which were formally proposed in 2020 and entered [...]

A US federal judge Monday halted the removal of a Confederate memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington DC. The temporary injunction was issued after US Army crewmembers began to dismantle the statue per the January 1 deadline given by Congress. With the monument scheduled to [...]

NHK News revealed in an exclusive report Tuesday that the Tokyo Prosecutor’s Office conducted a raid of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) offices on allegations that the party’s Abe and Nikai factions participated in a financial kickback scheme in violation of the Political Funds Control Act. Prosecutors alleged that the Abe faction did not [...]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Monday that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is normally a federal matter. The bill creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. It also [...]

Former US President Donald Trump asked a Georgia court on Monday to dismiss the 13 criminal charges against him in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s 2020 presidential election interference case. Trump claimed that, because all of the charges stem from political speech or advocacy, the US Constitution’s First Amendment shields him from criminal responsibility. [...]

Two prominent voting rights advocacy groups sued Republican state leadership in North Carolina on Tuesday over the state’s redistricting plans. The groups argue that the plans will disenfranchise Black voters and make Democratic majorities impossible in the state. Under the new map, which split several Democratic districts and attached the pieces to red-leaning rural areas, [...]

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced Monday that it shut down its office in the Nicaragua capital city of Managua at the request of Nicaraguan authorities. The closure, ICRC declared, marks the end of its humanitarian mission in the country, which began in 2018 after a mass anti-government uprising. In the following [...]

Former US President Donald Trump on Monday again asked the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to weigh in on a gag order imposed in federal prosecutors’ election interference case against him. A three-judge panel of the appeals court previously upheld the gag order on December 8. This time, Trump is asking the [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Monday upheld a lower court ruling that denied former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ request to transfer his charges in the Georgia election interference case to federal court.    Meadows argued that the charges against him relate to [...]

Ugandan LGBTQIA+ activists filed a lawsuit Monday in the country’s Constitutional Court to examine the constitutionality of the Anti-Homosecuality Act, signed by the country’s president earlier this year, that restricts the rights of LGBTIA+ individuals and imposes harsh penalties, including execution, for certain same-sex acts.  A panel of five judges, led by Judge Richard Buteera, has [...]