A three-judge panel of Hong Kong’s Court of First Instance on Monday found media tycoon and pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper founder Jimmy Lai guilty on sedition and national security charges. These include conspiracy to publish seditious material and two counts of conspiracy to collude with a foreign country or external elements to endanger national security. [...]

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese deemed a mass shooting targeting a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney a “terrorist incident” on Sunday after the attack left 15 dead, as well as one of the shooting’s two perpetrators. The other shooter has been taken into custody, according to New South Wales (NSW) Premier Chris Minns. NSW Police reported [...]

Democratic US Congressman Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania received bomb threats at two of his offices Friday after Donald Trump accused him and five other congresspeople of seditious behavior over a video encouraging US military members to refuse illegal orders. A post from Deluzio’s spokesperson reported that the congressman and his staff are safe. Local outlet [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking emergency relief to prevent the deportation of a journalist after the US Board of Immigration Appeals ended bond proceedings in the case on Friday. Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara was arrested during a June anti-Trump demonstration in Georgia while livestreaming immigration officials and law enforcement. The ACLU claims Guevara [...]

A UN-sponsored independent inquiry into Israel’s conduct in the Occupied Palestinian Territory reported Monday that Israel has committed the international crime of genocide amid its military operations in the Gaza Strip. A 72-page legal analysis from the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory found that Israeli forces have committed genocidal [...]

Utah authorities will charge the 22-year-old suspect in conservative commentator Charlie Kirk’s killing, Tyler Robinson, with aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, and obstruction of justice, according to an affidavit released Friday. In Utah, aggravated murder carries a maximum penalty of death. Robinson had been arrested early Friday morning after [...]

Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk died after being shot in the neck at a Utah Valley University event Wednesday, as immediately noted by US President Donald Trump. Two suspects were taken into custody, but both have been released. FBI director Kash Patel announced that one was let go following interrogation, and another detained earlier was determined [...]

South Korea’s foreign ministry announced Friday that it is sending personnel to a US Hyundai-LG battery plant where more than 300 Korean citizens were detained in an immigration raid the previous day, according to local media. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lee Jae-woong said South Korea voiced concerns to the US embassy in Seoul and called on US [...]

US federal agents arrested Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan on Friday for allegedly interfering in an immigration arrest that was to take place outside her courtroom, according to local media. FBI Director Kash Patel claimed in a social media post that Dugan “misdirected” Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents waiting to arrest an undocumented immigrant making an [...]

The US Supreme Court early Saturday morning temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s latest attempt to deport Venezuelan nationals under a 1798 law known as the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). The Trump administration claims that the detainees are members of the gang “Tren de Aragua,” which it has listed as a terrorist organization. Lawyers for the [...]