Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced the Chinese government on Wednesday for intimidating individuals seeking reparation for abuses linked to the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The human rights group alleged that the government has instituted a campaign of harassment against citizens demanding that the government take responsibility for misconduct related to the virus. The [...]
US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday titled “Executive Order Addressing the Threat Posed By Applications and Other Software Developed or Controlled By Chinese Companies.” The order, signed during Trump’s final two weeks in office, bans eight connected software applications. The apps that are banned under this order include Alipay, CamScanner, QQ [...]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday ordered the government to rebuild a historical Hindu temple that was vandalized and destroyed last week in Karak. During the hearing, Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed directed the authorities to rebuild the Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj Samadhi Temple and to charge expenses to the local Muslim leader, mullah Sharif, whom [...]
US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) announced Wednesday evening that she is drawing up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump after hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol. The Congresswoman tweeted her plans, writing, “I am drawing up Articles of Impeachment. Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives removed from [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that up to 3 percent of its email mailboxes were accessed during the SolarWinds cyberattack in December. DOJ Spokesperson Marc Raimondi released a statement on the incident: On Dec. 24, 2020, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) learned of previously unknown malicious [...]
US President-elect Joe Biden will appoint Merrick Garland as Attorney General, according to reports Wednesday. Garland is a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Then-president Barrack Obama had nominated Garland to the Supreme Court following the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Despite the nomination, [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld an order on Tuesday blocking Arkansas laws that ban abortions after 18 weeks of pregnancy and abortions due to a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. Little Rock Family Planning Services sued the state in 2019. The clinic challenged the abortion restrictions in Act 493, which [...]
Pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol building in Washington DC Wednesday after thousands rallied on the National Mall in support of President Donald Trump, who had addressed them in a rambling speech laden with grievances and falsehoods just after Noon and encouraged them to move on to the Capitol. The House and Senate were evacuated [...]
The Cape Verde Court of Appeal of Barlavento ruled Monday that Colombian lawyer and businessman Alex Nain Saab Moran can be extradited to the US, where he faces money laundering charges on behalf of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government. The US sanctioned Saab in 2019 for allegedly using an elaborate network of bank accounts in [...]
The California Court of Appeal held Monday that a juvenile offender who was sentenced to a term of 90 years to life in prison is entitled to a hearing to determine if it was proper to try him as an adult. Harquan Johnson, who was just 17 years old when he was convicted of murder, [...]
