Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, pleaded guilty Thursday to federal tax charges in a surprise move just before jury selection was set to begin in his Los Angeles trial. Biden, 54, admitted to failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019 while spending millions on what prosecutors [...]

Social media platform TikTok and its parent company ByteDance are facing civil charges of violating children’s privacy laws, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday. US authorities claim that TikTok knowingly allowed children under 13 to create accounts and share content without parental consent, failing to adequately protect minors’ personal information as required by [...]

US President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election on Sunday. He wrote in a letter to the American people: It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest [...]

Law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan are reporting for JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding the name of  our correspondent filing this dispatch.   The Taliban government’s recent enactment of the first-ever law governing Foreign Exchange Dealers (FXDs) and Money Service Providers (MSPs) in [...]

Former US President Donald Trump was taken to a “local medical facility” Saturday after apparent gunshots rang out at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. President Trump confirmed that he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of right ear.” The former president also said that the shooter and a rally attendee [...]

Law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan are reporting for JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding the name of  our correspondent filing this dispatch.   Three days ago, at a checkpoint in Herat, the terrorist group of the Taliban tried to stop a bike rider, [...]

This dispatch was filed by a JURIST legal correspondent in Afghanistan. For privacy and security reasons we cannot disclose her name. Reflecting the systematic misogyny now going on in Afghanistan, a government decree was recently published aimed at reducing the salaries of women professors and other government employees to 5000 AFG, or ~70$, without considering [...]

Law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan are reporting for JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding the name of  our correspondent filing this dispatch.   The Doha Meeting on the situation in Afghanistan brought together representatives from 25 countries as well as 5 major international [...]

Law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan are reporting for JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding the name of  our correspondent filing this dispatch.  The international community has begun two days of high-level meetings in Doha, Qatar focusing on the situation in Afghanistan. This [...]

At least five people were killed and dozens injured on Tuesday when Kenyan police fired on protesters attempting to storm the parliament in Nairobi during demonstrations against a proposed tax increase. “A section of the parliament is on fire,” one source told JURIST from the scene. “Multiple people are said to have been shot and [...]