President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum Wednesday directing the United States to withdraw from 66 international organizations, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The memorandum orders all executive departments and agencies to cease participation in and funding for 31 UN organizations and 35 non-UN entities [...]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to accelerate the reclassification of marijuana, a move that would ease decades-old restrictions that have classified the drug alongside heroin as having no accepted medical value. The US Controlled Substances Act ranks drugs along a five-tier spectrum based on their potential for abuse and recognized medical value. [...]
Satellite imagery analysis reveals widespread evidence of systematic mass killings and body disposal by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, Sudan, following the paramilitary group’s capture of the North Darfur state capital in late October, according to a report released this week by Yale University researchers. The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian [...]
A coalition of nine international human rights organizations on Wednesday called on Kazakhstan to end its crackdown on independent media after authorities raided a newsroom, detained journalists, and pressured reporters over their coverage. Police searched the offices of independent news outlet Orda.kz on Dec. 1 and detained editor-in-chief Gulnara Bazhkenova, who was placed under house [...]
Citing violations of federal environmental law, a federal judge on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction blocking further expansion of Alligator Alcatraz, a controversial immigration detention facility in Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve. US District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled that state and federal defendants failed to conduct required environmental assessments before constructing the camp within the [...]
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun deporting immigrants from Alligator Alcatraz, a hastily built detention camp in the Florida Everglades, Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Friday. Erected in the space of eight days on the grounds of an old airstrip, Alligator Alcatraz is part of a detention system that represents a core [...]
US President Donald Trump vowed Friday to sue The Wall Street Journal over a report claiming he wrote a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein, adding to his legal battles against major news organizations as his administration faces backlash for closing the Epstein case despite transparency promises. The report, published Thursday, claimed Trump had written [...]
A US federal court on Thursday granted a nationwide injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, delivering a significant victory to civil rights groups in an escalating legal battle that has already reached the Supreme Court. The Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution establishes that: “All persons born or naturalized in the [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted an injunction that had blocked President Donald Trump from implementing sweeping reforms aimed at restructuring the federal government. The case centers on Executive Order 14210, signed in February, which directs federal agencies to undertake “large-scale reductions in force” and submit reorganization plans that could eliminate or consolidate existing [...]
A group of academic associations filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the administration of US President Donald Trump of pursuing an illegal “ideological-deportation policy” targeting non-citizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestine protests. The move comes amid broad efforts by the Trump administration to reshape US policy related to education, immigration, law enforcement, and [...]
