The Iraqi Parliament officially accepted Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi’s resignation at its 20th session on Sunday. The Iraqi Prime Minister announced his resignation last Friday after violent protests in Baghdad and other cities over his failure to bring about promised reforms. On Sunday, the Iraqi Parliament formally accepted his resignation. The official resignation raised some [...]

US Senators Chris Coons and Mike Lee introduced a new bill Thursday that aims to limit federal use of facial recognition technology. The bill, titled The Facial Recognition Technology Warrant Act of 2019, was introduced in the US Senate in an effort to “make sure that law enforcement has the tools necessary to keep us [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Wednesday denied President Donald Trump’s petition for a rehearing en banc of his challenge of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s subpoena of his tax returns. Earlier this year, a three-judge panel of the appeals court had upheld a lower court’s ruling that [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against New York officials to block the release of his tax returns Monday because the DC court lacked personal jurisdiction over the New York officials. Judge Nichols determined that the lawsuit against the New York officials, New York [...]

The US House of Representatives voted in favor of two measures on Tuesday that admonish Turkey for its recent military incursion into northern Syria: a resolution that recognizes the Ottoman Empire’s genocide of Armenians and a bill that authorizes various sanctions against Turkey. The resolution recognizes and condemns the killing of nearly 1.5 million Armenians [...]