The Israeli Cabinet unanimously approved a peace agreement with the United Arab Emirates on Monday—the first peace agreement that Israel has signed in more than 25 years. Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained that the agreement will open the door to trade between Israel and its neighbors, leading to a major geopolitical and economic turning [...]
The US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania dismissed a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump’s re-election campaign challenging mail-in drop boxes in Pennsylvania on Saturday. The lawsuit challenged the statewide use of ballot drop boxes in at least 20 counties. The Trump campaign alleged that the unmonitored and unsecured ad hoc drop boxes [...]
A federal judge for the district court of the District of Columbia on Thursday ordered the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the White House to confer on the administration’s official position regarding the unredacted release of the Mueller investigation report. The order comes as part of a lawsuit concerning a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [...]
US District Judge Robert Pitman ruled against an order by Texas Governor Greg Abbott limiting each county to only one mail-in ballot-return center. Abbott issued this order on October 1, and argued that reducing the number of locations to return mail-in ballots would also reduce the risk of voter fraud. This order resulted in the [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Yale University in federal court on Thursday, alleging race discrimination against undergraduate applicants in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The provision states: “No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday blocked Wisconsin’s mail-in-voting deadline extension ahead of the November election In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Wisconsin extended the deadline for online and mail-in registration by a week and extended the deadline for receipt of ballots to six days after the presidential election. However, [...]
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro ended the anti-corruption probe “Operation Car Wash” on Wednesday, stating that “there is no more corruption in the government.” Operation Car Wash began six years ago to investigate allegations that executives at Petrobas, a state oil company, accepted bribes from construction firms in exchange for contracts at inflated rates. The Workers’ [...]
Iran released rights activist Narges Mohammadi, a campaigner against the death penalty, from prison on Thursday. She is an independent journalist and the former vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center. The judiciary sentenced Mohammadi to prison in 2016 for, among other charges, finding a campaign group that was deemed to be an “illegal [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) found Tuesday that Hungary’s education law violated EU rules when it forced out an American university founded by George Soros. The 2017 law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán challenged the dual status of Central European University, which originally granted US diplomas in Hungary. Soros, an American with a [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called Tuesday for Iran to release jailed human rights defenders, lawyers and political prisoners, citing COVID-19 concerns. Iran is the country worst-affected by the pandemic in the region, and conditions in prisons create a breeding ground for the virus. The prisons have a history of being overcrowded and [...]
