Maine’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday against multiple large oil companies alleging negligence, nuisance, unfair trade practices, failure to warn and trespass as parens patriae. Included among the parties being sued are Exxon, Shell, Chevron, British Petroleum (BP), Sunoco and the American Petroleum Institute (API). In the complaint submitted by the state, the attorney [...]

The recruitment of child soldiers by gangs has risen nearly 70 percent in the past years in Haiti, according to a report released by the UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Sunday. Within the Haitian capital, Port-Au-Prince, it is estimated that 1.2 million children are subject to the threat of armed violence, and 25 [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a Tuesday report accuses Saudi Arabia’s primary sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), of aiding in human rights abuses within and outside of the country. Highlighted within the report are the direct expropriation of Saudi companies that are then used to facilitate human rights abuses, corruption within the [...]

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism (SCDPR) challenging a lower court ruling that found the state had waived sovereign immunity by participating in a federal antitrust lawsuit against Google. The case stems from a broader federal antitrust action against Google, which [...]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explained the government’s reasoning for relaxing Canadian immigration law after the pandemic, and for the recent restrictions imposed, in a YouTube video released Sunday. Trudeau admitted that the federal government could have taken action earlier when companies and universities exploited the policy. Within the video, Trudeau explained how Canada first [...]

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a new rule that imposes fines on the oil and gas industry for excessive methane emissions. The rule aims to reduce methane emissions by an estimated 1.2 million metric tons through 2035. The EPA will also enact new and stringent regulatory requirements for oil and gas facilities releasing [...]

Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nausėda criticized the leading Social Democratic Party party’s decision to enter into a coalition agreement with Nemunas Dawn, a nationalist and populist political party whose leader has been accused of extreme antisemitism. Speaking to local media, Nausėda raised concerns about the effect that the antisemitic remarks of Nemunas Dawn’s leader, Remigijus Žemaitaitis, [...]

Justice Federico of the US Tenth Circuit of Appeal overturned a lower-court injunction on Tuesday against a Colorado law that raises the minimum age for purchasing a gun from 18 to 21, concluding that the restriction aligns with common-law standards for possible limitations to the Second Amendment. The case was initiated by the Second Amendment [...]

Iran executed dual Iranian-German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd on Monday. German Foreign Minister Annalaena Barbock stated: “I condemn the murder of Jamshid Sharmahd by the Iranian regime in the strongest possible terms. Jamshid Sharmahd was abducted to Iran from Dubai, held for years without a fair trial, and has now been killed.” Sharmahd was first arrested [...]

A US federal court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee (RNC) alleging the Michigan state government failed to properly clear its voting records in accordance with federal voting registration laws. Under the National Voter Registry Act, specifically 52 U.S.C. § 20507, states are required to make “reasonable” efforts to clear voter [...]