Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement on Wednesday condemning the Tunisian justice system for sentencing a man to death for Facebook posts dissenting from recent government actions. HRW’s statement addressed the sentencing of a Tunisian citizen, Saber Ben Chouchane, for Facebook posts of pictures of himself at recent protests, and statements calling for fellow [...]

Nonprofit organization Democracy Forward sued the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI on Monday after the agency failed to release key video recordings in an alleged bribery scheme case involving former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Tom Homan. Homan, currently Trump’s White House “Border Czar,” became the subject of a federal bribery investigation [...]

US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday stating that the US will consider any attack on Qatar an attack on the United States and will employ any necessary diplomatic, economic, or military efforts to protect the nation. US Executive Order No. 14361 expands the nations’ longtime mutually-beneficial relationship. That relationship formally began [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new bill into law Monday that aims to enhance online safety by creating barriers for AI tech developers. Senate Bill 53, also known as the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (TFAIA), has a goal of promoting the development and enhancement of new technology while protecting the freedom and [...]

Immigrant rights organization CASA and four Washington, DC residents filed a complaint against US President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday, claiming that multiple federal officials have engaged in illegal deportations of immigrants since August. The complaint comes after Trump declared a crime emergency in Washington, D.C., which placed local police under federal control and deployed [...]

Amnesty International released a statement on Monday calling on the Lebanese government to grant the International Criminal Court (ICC) the jurisdiction to investigate potential war crimes in the country during the ongoing conflict between Hezbollah and the Israeli government. It has been one year since the deadliest day in the conflict between the Lebanese-based political [...]

A New York state judge on Tuesday dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione, the alleged shooter of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione faces multiple federal and state charges after he was accused of stalking and killing Thompson in New York City at an investor conference on December 4, 2024. The contested charges in New [...]

Human Rights Watch on Thursday called for Moroccan authorities to exonerate activist Ibtissame Lachgar, who remains jailed after being sentenced to 30 months in prison for posting a photo of herself wearing a shirt reading “Allah is lesbian.” Lachgar was arrested in August and convicted this month of “causing harm to Islam.” The Rabat First [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Monday rejected a lawsuit by a group of states calling for the reinstatement of federal agency employees. A group of 19 states and Washington, DC, filed a lawsuit against the 21 US agencies that engaged in the firing, stating that the mass firings of over [...]

A US federal court ruled Wednesday that US President Donald Trump’s administration’s cancellation of $2.2 billion worth of grants intended for Harvard University was unlawful. Harvard University has been targeted by a slew of executive actions from President Trump and his administration over the last six months, including funding freezes, investigations, and threats to the [...]