The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik and a television outlet he controls, Alternativna Televizija d.o.o. Banja Luka (ATV). The sanctions came Wednesday after executive order 14033 ordered the United States Department of the Treasury (USDT) and other departments to take action against [...]

The Seoul Administrative Court ruled Tuesday that private education facilities like cram schools, public study rooms and study cafes should be exempt from South Korea’s COVID-19 vaccine pass requirements. According to Yonhap News Agency, parents and owners of private education institutes claim that the mandate violates unvaccinated students’ right to learn. The Court agreed that [...]

A Texas judge issued an amended execution order Tuesday for Carl Wayne Buntion and set his execution date for April 21, 2022. The scheduling of his execution raises issues of religious expression and implicates the pending Supreme Court case Ramirez v. Collier. Buntion was convicted of killing a police officer in 1990 during a traffic [...]

Judge Reed O’Connor of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas temporarily enjoined the United States Navy’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy on Monday. In August 2021, the Department of Defense (DOD) mandated COVID-19 vaccinations for all service members. The Navy issued its own mandate requiring all active-duty service members to be [...]

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Monday steps to foster competition and protect consumers in the meatpacking and poultry industry amid national supply chain issues. Garland announced the new measures at President Biden’s roundtable meeting on “promoting competition and reducing prices in the meatpacking industry.” In the coming year, the Department of Justice (DOJ) will partner [...]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced the launch of the Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection (LESDC) Monday. Former President Donald Trump signed the Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act into law on June 16, 2020. The Act gave the Attorney General one year to establish the LESDC. According the text of the Act, the FBI [...]

The Child Tax Credit, a key policy piece for the Biden Administration, lapsed Friday amid a congressional standoff over HR 5376, the Build Back Better Act. The tax credit would have been renewed for 2022 if the US Senate passed the Act before the end of 2021. The American Rescue Plan, passed in March 2021, [...]

Australia’s historic Old Parliament House caught fire Thursday during protests by a mix of activists. Reporters on the scene from 7NEWS Australia cited “conflicting reports” about the fire’s origin and the protestors’ identities. Protestors performed a small, traditional smoking ceremony outside of the building. According to Sky News, ACT Commander Linda Champion said police approved [...]

The Palestinian Digital Rights Coalition (PDRC) and the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) released a statement Wednesday warning against the passage of Israel’s “Facebook law.” According to the groups, the proposed law “grants Israeli courts the power to demand the removal of user-generated content on social media content platforms that can be perceived as [...]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Tuesday that the United States Patent and Trademark Office erred when it dismissed opposition by Intel Corporation to potential patents by Qualcomm Incorporated. The Federal Circuit released two rulings over the tech companies’ patent disputes, one regarding multi-processor systems and the other regarding radio [...]