Several state attorneys general on Wednesday filed individual lawsuits in their state courts against the artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI, alleging that the policies of its generative chatbot ChatGPT are harmful to children and deceitful to parents. The states that have filed suits include Iowa, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, West Virginia and Nebraska. The suits [...]

A Cornell Special Committee on Tuesday issued a statement announcing that the university has hired Sally Yates to conduct an independent review into the adequacy of the school’s response to sexual assault allegations by a former student, identified only as Jane Doe. Yates, formerly the US deputy attorney general under Barack Obama and now a [...]

US District Judge George O’Toole in Boston on Monday issued a ruling blocking the Trump administration from assessing and collecting fines of up to $1.8 million on migrants who fail to willingly leave the US after receiving final deportation orders. O’Toole resolved the class action suit against the administration by granting a motion to stay [...]

The United Nations reported Wednesday that, nearly one year after the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, Palestinians still face significant deprivation of basic human rights, including access to clean water, adequate shelter, healthcare, and education. While UN agencies continue to provide assistance, Palestinians’ access to essential humanitarian aid remains restricted, creating substantial obstacles to returning to [...]

US District Judge Timothy Kelly in the early hours of Thursday morning granted a request by CNN, MS NOW and Politico for temporarily relief following the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke their access to the White House. Kelly’s issuance of relief takes the form of a 14-day temporary restraining order (TRO) that mandates the news [...]

A jury in Burlington, Vermont, on Monday found Jason Eaton guilty of three counts of attempted second-degree murder stemming from the 2023 shooting of three Palestinian students attending college in the Northeast. The jury deliberated for only a few hours before rendering the guilty verdict, rejecting Eaton’s insanity defense. Eaton was convicted of attempted second-degree [...]

The global food supply is under threat from laws that criminalize the sale and exchange of traditional peasant seed varieties, a group of UN experts said Wednesday. In their latest report to the Human Rights Council, the UN Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas indicated that almost [...]

Newly appointed UN expert Bethanie Carney Almroth on Monday warned that pollution in the form of “forever chemicals,” or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), poses severe risks to the basic human right of a healthy and safe environment. Almroth referenced a recent UN report conveying that as PFAS spreads and accumulates in the environment, it has the [...]

A federal appeals court in Boston on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s request to remove an injunction barring the US Postal Service (USPS) from implementing the rule restricting the issuance of mail-in ballots, affirming a decision from a lower district court. The injunction, issued at the end of August by US District Judge Indira Talwani [...]

UN experts on Monday issued a press release strongly urging both the governments of the United States and the state of Tennessee to call a halt to the execution of Christa Pike, a woman who, at the age of 21, was sentenced to death row for a crime she committed as a teenager. In highlighting [...]