The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced that it has opened an investigation into the College of William & Mary (W&M) scholarship and student benefit policies to determine if they include criteria favoring minority applicants. This is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to crack down on diversity and inclusivity initiatives in [...]

A group of 25 mainly democratic states on Monday sued the Trump administration over its latest attempt to implement sweeping global tariffs. The lawsuit, filed in the International Trade Court (CIT), argues that the tariffs are arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to the law under which they were ostensibly imposed. President Trump invoked the tariffs in [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday reported that in the five years since the Taliban’s resurgence, the group has fostered a hostile environment and spurred one of the world’s worst human rights crises. HRW called on governments around the world to take decisive action as opposed to passively providing condolences, stating that the international response [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday reported that Perenco, the sole oil producer in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is using in production methods that pose grave health and environmental threats to local communities. HRW Central Africa director Lewis Mudge stated: “The Congolese government transparency on oil pollution levels to meet its obligations to [...]

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Monday expressed concerns that the mass destruction and displacement caused by Israeli strikes against Lebanon could amount to international crimes. Türk spent two days in Lebanon documenting the effects of the regional war on Lebanese citizens and concluded the trip with a press conference detailing his findings. While [...]

Former US Attorney General Roger Rogoff on Tuesday sued President Donald Trump’s administration for firing him just hours after he was appointed to the position, claiming that his removal violates federal statutes and the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. In his complaint, Rogoff claims that by firing him and “committing to firing anyone else a [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday reported that the United Nations is facing a severe funding crisis, largely because major contributors like the US and China, who together supply nearly half of all member-state dues, have either failed to pay or consistently paid late. This has resulted in job cuts throughout the organization as well [...]

Two US-based advocacy groups sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday, alleging that sanctions imposed by Trump on members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the UN impede the organizations’ ability to engage in Palestinian-related human rights advocacy and therefore violate their First Amendment rights. The sanctions in question stem from a 2025 Executive [...]

US President Donald Trump on Monday issued dual executive orders (EOs) reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah containing ancient cliff dwellings and petroglyphs by nearly three million acres, or about 90 percent each. The first order diminishes the size of Bears Ears National Monument from approximately 1.36 million acres to 121,100 acres, [...]

Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was spared prison time on Wednesday when she was sentenced to pay a $5,000 fine for purportedly obstructing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the courthouse arrest of an undocumented immigrant. US District Judge Lynn Adelman indicated that prison time was unnecessary and instead ordered the fine, conveying that [...]