On Wednesday British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suspended Parliament with permission from Queen Elizabeth II, putting the body into recess until less than three weeks before the October 31 Brexit deadline. Johnson suspended parliament in a process called prorogation wherein the prime minister may request that the current monarch suspend Parliament without dissolving it. A [...]

The Clean Air Council sued United States Steel Corporation Monday for violations of pollution reporting requirements stemming from a fire at the company’s Clairton Coke Works last December. In their complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh, the Clean Air Council alleges that US Steel failed to [...]

A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has denied an appeal from a defense contractor to halt a lawsuit over their involvement in the 2004 Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The lawsuit was filed by a group of Iraqi citizens who alleged that numerous US military and civilian contractors conspired [...]

The US government on Wednesday suspended Turkey’s involvement with the F-35 fighter jet program, citing concerns with Turkey’s purchase of a Russian-built missile defense system. In a statement issued by White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, the US government said that Turkey’s purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system presented a security risk for the [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the CROWN Act on Wednesday making California the first state in the US where it is illegal for employers and schools to discriminate on the basis of hairstyle. The CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Act was proposed by California legislators and written by state senator [...]

Judge Alison Nathan of the Southern District of New York ruled on Wednesday that a case against nearly a dozen companies accused of defrauding student loan borrowers could proceed, rejecting a motion for the suit to be dismissed filed by the companies’ attorneys. The suit, brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, claimed that [...]

The EPA announced on Wednesday that it had finalized a new rule to replace stringent emissions limits imposed under the Obama administration on coal-burning power plants. The new regulation, dubbed the Affordable Clean Energy rule (ACE) by EPA chairman Andrew Wheeler, aims to relax pollution standards from the stringent limits established under the Clean Power [...]

On Thursday the New York state legislature passed a bill prohibiting citizens of the state from refusing vaccinations on religious grounds. New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed it into law the same day. The spread of easily-preventable diseases like measles has become a public health crisis in New York City since 2018. Nearly one thousand [...]

British Prime Minister Teresa May issued a statement Wednesday committing to passing legislation aimed at reducing the UK’s climate change emissions to net zero by 2050. The UK government has been under increasing pressure to address its role in global climate change in recent weeks, as a series of highly public protests and sit-ins disrupted [...]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a state law prohibiting candidates for state political offices from running as candidates for more than one party in the same election. In April 2016 Christopher Rabb secured the nomination for the Democratic Party’s candidate for state representative in the 200th legislative district. A local third party, the [...]