The Seoul Central District Court on Monday denied an arrest warrant request for Samsung Group heir Jae Y. Lee. Allegations submitted by prosecutors included accounting fraud and stock manipulation relating to the alleged role of Lee in the 2017 political scandal in South Korea and the controversial merger of C&T and Cheil Industries in 2015. [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday alleging that the city of Seattle violated the constitutional rights of protesters throughout the city by allowing Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers to “deploy unnecessary violence against peaceful demonstrators who speaking out against discriminatory police brutality.” The protests follow the May 25 murder of [...]

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Health Ministry officials to restore previously available COVID–19 data to its national website after the Sustainability Network, Communist Party of Brazil and the Socialism and Freedom Party accused the government of withholding vital infection and death toll data. Justice Alexandre de Moraes noted in his decision that Brazil must [...]

The US National Park Service (NPS) published a new rule in the Federal Register on Tuesday that will remove certain prohibitions against hunting and trapping practices that are otherwise allowed by Alaska state law. The NPS is removing paragraphs (f) and (g) of 36 C.F.R. § 13.42, which deal with the taking of wildlife in [...]

A Michigan voter filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Michigan Secretary of State and 16 county clerks, asserting that state officials have not properly maintained the voter registration as required by law. Tony Daunt, Executive Director of the conservative Michigan Freedom Fund, brought the lawsuit. The complaint alleges a violation of Section 8 of the [...]

French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced on Monday that France will ban the use of chokeholds to detain suspects. This comes amid worldwide demonstrations against police brutality and racism ignited by the death of George Floyd. The protests drew attention to claims of racism and brutality by French police and gendarmerie, a military force within [...]

Richmond Circuit Court Judge Bradley Cavedo issued an injunction on Monday, preventing Virginia Governor Ralph Northam from removing the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond. The injunction was sought by William Gregory, the great-grandson of Roger and Bettie Gregory, parties to the 1890 deed in which the Commonwealth of [...]

Former El Salvador military commander Inocente Montano went on trial in Spain on Monday, accused of ordering the murder of six Spanish Jesuit priests in 1989. Two Salvadorean women were also killed in the incident. Montano was formerly held in the US, but was extradited to Spain in 2017. Ex-colonel Montano was the vice-minister of [...]

Wake County Superior Court Judge Vinston Rozier ruled, on Monday, that the North Carolina prison officials must come up with a plan for testing every inmate for COVID-19 and must drastically reduce the number of inmate transfers between prisons. The ruling comes after NAACP and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit arguing that the [...]

Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a 2017 law that legalized settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the West Bank. Under the “Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria,” which was approved in February 2017, settlers were allowed to remain on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West [...]