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US President Donald Trump on Thursday pardoned 23 anti-abortion activists convicted of blockading or physically obstructing abortion clinic entrances. Trump remarked while signing the pardon order: “They should not have been prosecuted … Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this.” The activists [...]

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) ordered its Civil Rights Division to halt all ongoing litigation from former President Joe Biden’s administration and not pursue new cases or settlements, according to multiple internal memos that were obtained by various media outlets on Wednesday. The memos, which were sent to the temporary head of the Civil [...]

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US President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 2,500 non-violent drug offenders on Friday, marking the highest number of pardons and commutations issued by a president in US history. Biden said he commuted the sentences because he saw them as disproportionately long for the sentences the offenders would have received today given the passage of [...]

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The US House of Representatives voted 218-206 Tuesday to approve a bill that would ban transgender women from competing in women’s school sports teams. The bill bars persons deemed biologically male at birth from participating in school sports activities “designated for women or girls.” However, the prohibition does not bar transgender women from training with [...]

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South Korea’s Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) on Saturday sent an official document to Acting President Choi Sang-mok  requesting him to order the Presidential Security Service to comply with execution of the arrest warrant for President Yoon Seok-yeol, according to the Korean Broadcasting System. After President Yoon failed to appear for the CIO’s [...]

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday published its finding that Oklahoma discriminates against people with behavioral health disabilities in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The DOJ found that Oklahoma unnecessarily puts individuals with behavioral health disabilities in institutional facilities for long periods, isolating those individuals from the general community. These [...]

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The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld on Monday the $5 million verdict against president-elect Donald Trump for sexually assaulting and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.  Trump appealed the lower court’s verdict, arguing that admission of evidence for other sexual assaults to be against the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE). The trial [...]

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The South Korean Public Prosecutor’s Office on Monday requested an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Seok-Yeol over his martial law declaration earlier this month, according to local media. The office made the request with the Seoul Western District Court after President Yoon failed to appear for his third summons from the Corruption Investigation Office [...]

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A US appeals court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s ruling that police in Phoenix, Arizona, used excessive force against protesters outside a Donald Trump rally. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that qualified immunity applied to the police interactions because the protestors did not cite a case that “could have ‘clearly [...]

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On Friday, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. (ABC) agreed to pay $15 million to a “presidential foundation and museum” for US president-elect Donald Trump as a settlement for Trump’s defamation lawsuit. ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos interviewed Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) on March 10, after she endorsed Trump for the presidency. Stephanopoulos questioned how Mace as [...]

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