UK Foreign Secretary Lis Truss Friday announced that the UK will be imposing sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two daughters. The sanctions follow just days after the US similarly announced it was imposing sanctions on the two daughters. In a press release, the UK stated the the goals of the sanctions were to target [...]
The California Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday passed a bill that will empower private citizens to sue those who traffic illegal weapons into the state. The bill has been passed in response to the deadly mass shooting which occurred Sunday just blocks from the state Capitol building. Senate Bill (SB) 1327 was authored by Senator Robert Hertzberg [...]
Human Rights Watch (HWR) released a report Tuesday revealing that Malian armed forces and associated foreign soldiers allegedly executed an estimated 300 civilian men in late March 2022. The civilians were allegedly executed in the central Malian town of Moura. These alleged killings are the latest in the ongoing Malian civil war, which began in [...]
The US Department of Defense Saturday announced the repatriation of an Algerian citizen detained at Guantánamo Bay. This repatriation follows a five year delay from a hold by former President Trump on all detainee transfers from Guantánamo Bay. Sufiyan Barhoumi has been detained since 2002. He was captured in Pakistan following US military interventions in [...]
UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a statement Saturday denounced attacks on civilian facilities in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The statement was made in response to the recent escalation in the ongoing violent conflict between the Yemeni Houthi movement and a Saudi-led armed coalition. This armed coalition entered Yemen in 2015 in an attempt to quell [...]
Judge David Bunning of the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky ruled Friday that former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis violated the constitutional rights of same-sex couples when she denied them marriage licenses during the summer of 2015. Davis became infamous in 2015 for refusing to issue same-sex couples marriage licenses despite the [...]
