Iran executed three men accused of carrying out a terrorist attack during last year’s nationwide protests surrounding the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. According to Mizan, a state-run news agency for Iran’s judiciary, Iranian officials executed Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaghoubi based upon their conviction on charges of moharebeh, or enmity against god. [...]

Five TikTok users filed a lawsuit in a federal Montana court on Wednesday to stop the state’s newly enacted TikTok ban from going into effect. The lawsuit, filed the same day Governor Greg Gianforte signed the ban into law, asks the court to declare the law invalid under the US Constitution and prevent the state [...]

US government prosecutors argued in court filings Wednesday that Jack Teixeira, the US airman suspected of leaking classified US intelligence documents, should remain detained ahead of his criminal trial. Prosecutors revealed new evidence showing that Teixeira had twice been caught before his arrest viewing classified material unrelated to his official duties. They also argued that [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Twitter is not liable under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act when users post terrorism-related content. Rather than addressing §230 of the Communications Decency Act, which many believed would determine the case, the court decided that the plaintiffs in Twitter v. Taamneh failed to state a claim [...]

US border authorities confirmed Wednesday that an eight-year-old girl died while in their custody along the US southern border. Her death is the second reported incident of a child dying in US custody since the lifting of Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy that has been widely criticized by human rights groups. A statement from [...]

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed a bill banning TikTok from the state into law on Wednesday, making Montana the first state within the US to ban the popular social media app. The new law expands upon a December 2022 ban within the state, which prohibited any Montana government employees from using TikTok. In signing the [...]

CEO of OpenAI Samuel Altman appeared before the US Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on Tuesday for a hearing about how the US might regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Altman called on the US “to develop regulations that incentivize AI safety while ensuring that people are [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday five new criminal cases and four arrests in connection with a multi-agency US task force, known as the Disruptive Technology Strike Force, to keep sensitive technology away from “hostile nation-states.” The criminal cases focused on foreign actors connected with Russia and China who, the DOJ claims, [...]

A delegation of human rights organizations traveled to the US’s southern border on Friday to “bear witness” to the end of Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy. The organizations condemned the situation and described it as being “rooted in violence and abuse instead of compassion.” Amidst Title 42’s expiration, the ACLU filed a lawsuit to [...]

A Trump-era deportation policy known as Title 42 is set to expire on Thursday night. Ahead of its expiration, US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas held a press conference at the White House where he said the Biden administration was “clear-eyed about the challenges we are likely to face in the days and weeks [...]