The Military Police Complaints Commission of Canada, an independent civilian watchdog, released its 2025 annual report on Tuesday, calling for legislation authorizing additional powers to the body and removal of barriers that continue to impede its ability to effectively oversee the Canadian military police. The Commission has alleged continued lack of accountability on the part [...]

The nationalist Bloc Québécois party (the Bloc) introduced a bill Tuesday in the Canadian parliament to repeal the Clarity Act, in an effort to make it easier for Quebec to secede from Canada. The bill is short and succinct, and contains only one section, calling for the repeal of the Clarity Act, with a preamble [...]

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Monday condemned Afghanistan’s Taliban government for adopting a new decree that legitimizes child marriage and treats a minor female child’s silence as consent to marriage. The Committee, which is composed of 18 independent child rights experts, expressed further concern that the so-called Decree No. 18 [...]

A former supervisor of the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for covering up an assault by correctional officers three years ago that led to the death of a 35-year-old inmate, Quantez Burks. A federal jury convicted former lieutenant Chad Lester in January of three [...]

The US District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion for preliminary injunction sought by the American Bar Association (ABA) on Wednesday, temporarily blocking the Trump administration from canceling a series of grants to the ABA that fund legal services to victims of domestic and sexual violence. At the outset, Judge Christopher Cooper [...]

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on Monday announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for individuals from Afghanistan. Noem stated that the “conditions in Afghanistan” no longer warrant continuing the program, finding that it is “contrary to the national interest.” Before a TPS designation for a country expires, the secretary is required to [...]

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Monday dropped the prosecution of seven individuals charged with trespassing and resisting and/or obstructing a police officer for their conduct related to the police clearing of an encampment at the University of Michigan in May 2024. The seven defendants were Oliver Kozler, Samantha Lewis, Henry MacKeen-Shapiro, Michael Mueller, Asad [...]

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned on Thursday that the Trump administration’s attacks on the judiciary are “not isolated incidents,” but are designed to intimate the judiciary and “impact more than just the individual judges who are being targeted.” Justice Jackson further warned that the threats and harassment of the judiciary are an attack [...]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to cease federal funding for public broadcasters National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), calling such funding “not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.” NPR and PBS receive their funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), established [...]

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Monday to target sanctuary jurisdictions for violating, obstructing, and defying federal immigration laws, and to bolster immigration enforcement by “empowering State and local law enforcement to firmly police dangerous criminal behavior and protect innocent citizens.” The first order, titled “Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens,” begins by [...]