A Texas woman pleaded guilty on Friday to a charge of making threats against US District Court for the Southern District of Florida judge Aileen Cannon. Cannon currently oversees former President Donald Trump’s legal disputes around documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago, Florida residence. Tiffani Shea Gish pleaded guilty to one charge of  interstate communications with [...]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal District of Columbia Circuit on Friday temporarily froze a gag order against Trump. The per curium decision stated the purpose of the temporary freeze was to give the court time to consider an appealed emergency motion for a stay of the order requested by the former [...]

The German Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled a law allowing double jeopardy in criminal cases where new evidence was available was unconstitutional. In the majority decision, the justices found a fundamental right that “no person may be punished more than once for the same offense.” The decision centered on Section 362 of the German Criminal [...]

US Representative George Santos (R-NY) pleaded not guilty Friday to 23 federal crimes contained in a superseding indictment. Santos was accused of nine counts of wire fraud, four counts of making false statements, three counts of unlawful money transfers amounting to over $10,000, two counts of falsifying records or documents, two counts of aggravated identity [...]

The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from North Carolina on Monday over the constitutionality of a state law allowing employers to sue employees working as undercover investigators. The denial leaves in place a lower federal court ruling that the law violated First Amendment rights when enforced against “newsgathering activities.” The denial from [...]

A US federal judge on Friday issued an order punishing former New York mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani for “continued and flagrant disregard” of court demands. The order resulted from Giuliani’s “failure to comply” with an August 30 order, which was issued after he was found guilty of defaming two Georgia election workers during [...]

Israel’s Security Cabinet declared a state of war on Sunday. The Israeli Prime Minister’s (PM) office made the declaration public, stating that the war “was imposed on the State of Israel through a murderous terrorist attack from the Gaza Strip.” Article 40 of the Basic Laws of Israel: The Government (2001) allowed the declaration to [...]

A federal judge allowed Oklahoma’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors to take effect on Thursday. In his opinion, Judge John Heil, III stated that the plaintiffs asking for injunctive relief “failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits” of their multiple constitutional claims. The plaintiffs challenged the law, SB 613, on several [...]

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) rejected a US State Department report claiming that the PRC supports the global spread of disinformation on Saturday. A PRC Foreign Ministry spokesperson, quoted by the Xinhua news agency, said that the “report is in itself disinformation as it misrepresents facts and truth.” The spokesperson accused the US of [...]

Denis Pushilin, the Russian-backed leader of the Donetsk region, which is widely recognized as Ukrainian territory annexed by Russia, issued a decree on Sunday implementing public activity restrictions.  In the decree, Pushilin said the measures are necessary to “trengthen the protection of public order and ensure public safety.” The five-page decree instated numerous restrictions on [...]