The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case that asks whether federal judges must adhere to commentary on criminal sentencing guidelines created under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. The case implicates questions over the ongoing clash between judicial and administrative interpretative authority, as the court will likely weigh on the [...]

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio placed full sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday in response to continuing investigations into potential war crimes committed by the US and Israel. “Our message is clear: the United States and its people are not subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC,” Rubio said in a [...]

The Federal High Court of Nigeria in Abuja on Monday ordered the agency tasked with regulating oil imports to issue import licenses to three oil marketing companies despite ongoing claims that continued imports hamper domestic oil production. The Nigerian ⁠Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) had previously refused to reissue fuel import licenses to [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday advised global leaders to consider the effects proposed redevelopment will have on the Syrian people as international investment continues to pour into the recovering nation. “Syria’s reconstruction is progressing slowly, but without a rights framework, it could leave many Syrians with a raw deal,” Hiba Zayadin, senior HRW Middle [...]

Amnesty International called Thursday for the abolition of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in a report alleging widespread human rights violations in federal immigration enforcement operations. In its 168-page report, Amnesty investigated ICE activity in Chicago, Minneapolis-St.Paul, New Orleans and Washington DC, concluding that in each city officers relied on racial profiling; arbitrarily arrested [...]

In a UN speech Wednesday, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Judith Suminwa, alerted to disparities between mineral-producing nations that facilitate AI and renewable energy growth and the nations that implement these technologies. “It would be both unjust and dangerous for added value, jobs, know-how, and technologies to remain concentrated far [...]

A trial over car manufacturer Tesla’s alleged racially discriminatory employment practices begins Monday in Alameda County, California, according to Reuters. The trial is scheduled to run until October 30 before state Superior Court Judge Peter Borkon and is one of multiple similar suits against Tesla. The case will proceed as a bench trial, meaning the [...]

US President Donald Trump criticized the Supreme Court on social media Tuesday, following the court’s denial of his administration’s emergency petition to allow the US Postal Service (USPS) to heighten mail-in ballot requirements before midterm elections. “These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a [...]

The US Justice Department on Thursday announced federal gun and drug charges brought against 81 alleged members of Puerto Rican gang “Los Baja Deo” following a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) investigation. Attorney General Todd Blanche stated that the DHS investigation led to the seizure of 21 firearms and uncovered “the distribution of at least [...]

ICE deported over 160 individuals to Haiti on Thursday in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the administrative repeal of temporary protected status (TPS) for roughly 330,000 Haitians, despite pervasive gang violence throughout the country. The charter flight landed in the northern city of Cap-Haïtien, instead of capital Port-au-Prince, as gangs [...]