California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Monday that he is beginning an investigation into TikTok due to reports of the platform suppressing content critical of US President Donald Trump. Newsom and his team announced via X that they have received multiple reports from sources stating that the widely-popular TikTok platform had been recently suppressing the [...]

A Georgia man pleaded guilty to wire fraud in US federal court on Wednesday for engineering “the largest Ponzi scheme in Georgia history,” defrauding over 2,000 investors of over $380 million. The US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia released a statement explaining how Todd Burkhalter was the mastermind behind financial advisory group [...]

Amnesty International on Monday demanded that the Cuban government immediately release seven prisoners held for political reasons, and permanently cease political detentions. The rights group listed the names of each prisoner, demanded their release, and denounced the country’s political-prisoner release process, criticizing its “opacity” and “absence of clear criteria and use of arbitrary conditions.” Advocating [...]

The US State Department announced on Wednesday that it will suspend the ability for citizens of 75 countries to obtain immigrant visas beginning on January 21. The affected countries include Latin American countries like Brazil and Colombia, South Asian countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, and multiple countries in the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean. [...]

A US federal court ruled Monday that US President Donald Trump’s cancellation of clean energy grants to 16 Democratic-led states was illegal. In October 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it would cancel over $7.5 billion in clean energy project grants that funded 223 projects across the country. The agency claimed that the [...]

The US State Department on Wednesday announced that it will halt all assistance programs that benefit the Somali Federal Government after a report that a US-funded World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse was demolished and its contents seized by Somali officials. The online post said that President Donald Trump has a “zero-tolerance policy for waste, theft, [...]

The Wyoming Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court decision holding that a state law generally banning abortion and a separate law that prohibited the use of abortion pills are unconstitutional. Wyoming passed the abortion bans in 2022, which included one total ban unless a situation of rape or incest occurred, and one banning [...]

A group of 21 Arab, African and Islamic nations on Saturday issued a joint statement formally rejecting Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as an independent state. The statement asserted that recognizing Somaliland as a nation independent of Somalia constitutes a grave violation of international law, emphasizing the “serious repercussions of such unprecedented measure on peace and [...]

A US federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to provide due process to Venezuelan migrants who have been removed from the US and flown to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador. Judge James Boasberg of the District Court for the District of Columbia concluded that President Donald Trump’s administration’s deportation of [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overruled a lower court ruling on Wednesday, allowing US President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard in Washington DC to continue for now. The three-judge panel reversed US District Judge Jia Cobb’s November 20 decision, which disallowed Trump from deploying troops to DC to [...]