Hunter Biden sued the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Monday for unlawful disclosure of his tax information and for related violations of the Privacy Act. Biden’s complaint mentioned two IRS agents by name: Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler. In June, the House Committee on Ways and Means voted to release transcripts of interviews with Shapley [...]

A US federal judge Monday blocked the enforcement of a Texas law restricting books in schools. At issue was House Bill (HB) 900, a bill passed by the Texas Legislature and signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbot that would require the Texas State Library and Archives Commission to create standards for “sexually explicit” [...]

A Polish government official Friday wrote on X that seven people have been arrested and charged by Poland’s Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) as part of an investigation into a scandal involving irregularities in the issuance of Polish visas. The scandal was reported by Polish news outlet Onet, who claims to have a Ministry of Foreign [...]

A federal district court on Monday denied the Alabama Secretary of State’s emergency motion to allow Alabama to hold elections with congressional maps which have been called “racially gerrymandered.” Alabama’s Secretary of State Wes Allen made an emergency motion for stay pending a direct appeal to the US Supreme Court. In denying the emergency motion, the [...]

A US federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Texas can leave the floating barrier in the Rio Grande after a district court ordered the state to remove it on Wednesday. Texas Governor Greg Abbott appealed the order along with an emergency motion to stay the district court’s order earlier on Thursday. A panel of judges [...]

Executives of Lundin Oil (now Orrön Energy) Ian Lundin and Alex Schneiter’s criminal trial for alleged war crimes in Sudan began on Tuesday. Schneiter and Lundin are charged with “complicity in grave war crimes.” In November 2021, Swedish prosecutors indicted Lundin and Schneiter for Lundin Oil’s operations in Sudan from 1999 to 2003. Lundin Energy [...]

Armenian state news agency Armenpress reported Friday that the country’s parliament will consider ratifying the Rome Statute. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the treaty that established the ICC. Armenia signed the Rome Statute in October 1999 but has not ratified it. In 2004, Armenia’s Constitutional Court found that the Rome [...]

A Maryland federal judge denied Thursday a parents’ request to have their children “opt-out’ of education on LGBTQ+ history and topics. In Mahmoud v. McKnight, three families parenting elementary-aged children in Maryland, objected on religious grounds to the use of storybooks featuring LGBTQ+ characters in the Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) system. The court rejected the [...]

Saudi Arabian border guards have killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants attempting to cross the Yemen-Saudi Arabia border, according to a Monday report from Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report documented incidents between March 2022 and June 2023 using interviews with 42 Ethiopian migrants, satellite imagery and social media posts. According to the report, Saudi border guards [...]

A Texas woman was arrested Wednesday for threatening to kill the federal Judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington, DC. According to the indictment, Abigail Jo Shry called the chambers of US District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan on August 5. She allegedly stated “you are in our sights, we [...]