The Court of Cassation, France’s highest court, on Wednesday upheld an appeal court’s decision to find ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of illegal campaign financing during his 2012 reelection bid, along with his campaign manager and two aides from his political party. The appeals court sentenced Sarkozy to a year of imprisonment with a six-month suspended [...]

State attorneys general across the US signed a bipartisan letter on Tuesday urging Congress to “not inject an AI moratorium” into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The letter expressed concern about numerous risks posed by AI, including sophisticated “scams” and “delusional generative AI outputs” which endanger mental health, and AI tools “engaging children in [...]

A US federal judge ruled on Thursday that President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, DC, is unlawful, in District of Columbia v. Trump. District Judge Jia M. Cobb of the US District Court for the District of Columbia stated in a memorandum opinion that the defendants “exceeded the bounds of their authority [...]

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the social technology company Meta does not hold a monopoly in the “personal social networking” (PSN) market, in the antitrust case Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms, Inc. Meta will therefore not have to divest its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. Chief Judge James E. Boasberg of the US [...]

A tribunal in Dhaka on Monday sentenced former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her interior minister to death for their role in suppressing student uprisings in July and August 2024. She resigned and fled to India shortly after the protests, and the trial took place in absentia. The former interior minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal [...]

A Rhode Island district judge ruled on Thursday that US President Donald Trump’s administration must fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) throughout the month of November, after the program was partially suspended due to a government shutdown. The Trump administration has appealed the decision. Chief Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. granted the plaintiffs’ motion [...]

UN human rights experts raised concern on Tuesday over “repeated and systematic lethal attacks” by the US military against vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, which they said could constitute war crimes under international maritime law. Three UN special rapporteurs stated that the attacks “appear to be unlawful killings” that lack any “judicial or [...]

The North Carolina Senate voted on Tuesday to create a new congressional map for the state, reallocating voters from the Republican-controlled third district to the Democrat-controlled first district. The state’s House of Representatives will vote on the map on Wednesday. Republicans currently control 10 of 14 congressional seats in North Carolina, and make up 30 [...]

A UN committee released a report on Thursday finding that France “is responsible for grave and systematic violations of the rights of unaccompanied migrant children,” failing its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a body of 18 experts that monitors children’s [...]

The UN on Tuesday condemned a Russian drone strike on a humanitarian convoy delivering aid to Bilozerka, a town nine kilometers from the front line in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine. The UN stated in a press release that an “inter-agency convoy” of four trucks carrying hygiene kits, medicines and shelter materials was attacked [...]