The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit suspended Circuit Judge Pauline Newman from her duties as a judge for one year on Wednesday after she refused to undergo medical evaluations to measure her ability to perform as a judge. Earlier this year, Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore ruled that in regard to Newman, [...]

The South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) filed a motion on Tuesday informing the South Carolina Supreme Court that it obtained a drug to carry out the death penalty through lethal injection. The last time South Carolina executed a prisoner was in May 2011 by lethal injection. Since then, the state halted executions because pharmacies [...]

The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) released data Monday showing that the US-Mexico border is the deadliest migrant route on land in the world. According to the organization’s Missing Migrants Project report, 686 people died at the US-Mexico border in 2022. However, there is concern the numbers are underreported because the agency could not [...]

13 presidential centers in the US released a joint statement on Thursday stressing the importance of the rule of law and democratic principles in the United States. Specifically, the group called for peaceful civil discourse about political topics and shared the necessity of democracy: We, the undersigned, represent a wide range of views across a [...]

A group of Colorado voters filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against former US President Donald Trump, seeking to prevent him from appearing on the state ballot in the 2024 primary and general elections. The 100-page complaint alleges that the former president led a “broad-based effort to pressure, coerce, and intimidate state and local officials to [...]

The UN sanctions on Mali are set to end Thursday after the Security Council failed to renew them. In August 2022, the UN renewed its travel ban and asset freeze on some individuals in the West African nation resulting from political unrest in 2015. The 2023 sanctions would have extended to “those who obstruct or [...]

Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed an executive order Wednesday defining the words male and female, regulating how state agencies apply rules relating to sex. While Pillen asserted that the order would safeguard women’s sports and safety, opponents have criticized it as an attack on transgender rights. Called the Women’s Bill of Rights, the order states [...]

Parents filed a petition on Monday asking the US Supreme Court to decide whether an elite public high school, known as the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), discriminates based on race in their admissions policy. The petition comes nearly two months after the court found that Harvard University’s consideration of race [...]

A US federal judge rejected a lawsuit on Monday brought by parents and students of an Ohio school district that challenged the school district’s bathroom policy. US District Judge Michael Newman found that the Bethel Local School District’s decision to establish a gender-inclusive bathroom policy did not violate the parents’ and students’ US Constitutional rights. [...]

The American Red Cross implemented guidance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday to relax restrictions on blood donations for gay and bisexual men. Specifically, the American Red Cross changed its donor assessment questionnaire to remove gender and sexual orientation-specific questions and focus more on an individual’s history. Before, gay and bisexual [...]