South Carolina man Trevor Mullinax filed a complaint against York County, South Carolina, and the York County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday claiming he was shot at “around 50 times” during a wellness check in 2021. The complaint states relatives called in a wellness check on Mullinax as he contemplated suicide. Mullinax had a shotgun in [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Tuesday warned against a “never-ending cycle of violence” in Haiti after releasing a quarterly report on the island nation. Türk visited Haiti in February and stated that during the visit he saw some of “the most frightening situations in the world.” Türk explained armed gangs control [...]
The US Supreme Court Tuesday held that New Jersey may unilaterally withdraw from the Waterfront Commission Compact, an interstate compact between the two states created to fight crime in the Port of New York and New Jersey. In the case New York v. New Jersey, a unanimous court found that interstate compacts are governed by [...]
A federal grand jury in Florida Tuesday released a superseding indictment against four US citizens and three Russian nationals for conspiring with the Russian government to act as unregistered foreign agents. The conspiracy was called a “multi-year foreign malign influence campaign,” according to a press release from the US Department of Justice (DOJ). The first [...]
Former US President Donald Trump Wednesday sued his former attorney Michael Cohen for $500 million. Trump’s complaint alleged that he suffered “vast reputational harm” due to Cohen’s “multiple breaches of fiduciary duty.” Trump also alleged that Cohen made “innumerable positive statements” about Trump, followed by disparaging statements in Cohen’s book Disloyal. One passage from Cohen’s [...]
The California Reparations Task Force Wednesday convened for a two-day public comment period to decide how reparations to Black Californians should be paid. The meetings will be live streamed on the California Office of the Attorney General website. California Assembly Bill 3121 (AB 3121), which was signed into law September 2020, establishes the task force [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is seeking the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin in connection with the forced deportation of Ukrainian children, according to a statement released by the court Friday. ICC judges are also seeking the arrest of Maria Lvova-Belova, the Putin administration’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights. Both Russian officials stand [...]
US senators Wednesday drafted a bipartisan resolution that could lead to a major reassessment of US security assistance to Saudi Arabia. The resolution was penned by US Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Mike Lee (R-UT), who also drafted a summary of the resolution for public release. The resolution would require the Secretary of State to [...]
US President Joe Biden Wednesday signed an executive order on “Reducing Gun Violence and Making our Communities Safer.” The executive order requires several federal department heads to submit a report describing what their agencies have done to implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which Biden signed into law last year. The reports by Attorney General [...]
Protests erupted in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi Wednesday after Georgia’s parliament endorsed a “foreign agent” bill. If it passes, the bill would require individuals and organizations to register as “foreign agents” if they meet certain qualifications. Should the designated individuals and organizations fail to do so and live up to strict reporting requirements, they would face [...]
