Amnesty International warned against a “chilling verdict” returned by a North Dakota jury on Thursday in a lawsuit against Greenpeace. The verdict orders Greenpeace, an environmental advocacy organization, to pay Energy Transfer, a fossil fuel company, $660 million US in defamation liability. Amnesty International described the jury’s verdict as “chilling” according to its “severe implications for [...]

In a 137-page ruling, the US District Court for the District of Maryland granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Thursday blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from having continued unlimited access to sensitive Social Security information of millions of Americans. The plaintiffs in this case were two national labor and membership associations, [...]

The Perth District Court on Thursday convicted a 19-year-old man for sharing Islamic State beheading videos online via social media. The conviction, followed by a sentence of three years imprisonment, marks the first since the enactment of Australia’s new counterterrorism laws in 2024. According to the Australian Federal Police, the content found on the man’s [...]

The Trump administration halted $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania Wednesday in response to the university’s transgender sports policies. The announcement was first reported by Fox News and later reposted by Rapid Response 47 on X (formerly Twitter). Rapid Response 47 is an account created by the Trump administration to respond to [...]

A jury in the US District Court for the District of Albuquerque convicted failed former New Mexico House of Representatives candidate Solomon Peña on Wednesday of charges in connection with a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of Democratic state and local lawmakers in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The shootings occurred between [...]

The European Commission announced preliminary findings against Apple and Google, charging them with two violations of the Digital Markets Act on Wednesday. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is the EU’s law to regulate the power of large digital platforms to ensure a fair and contestable market. The European Commission designated gatekeepers under the DMA, which [...]

Russian online media RusNews revealed Wednesday two letters from an imprisoned journalist and anti-war activist, Maria Ponomarenko, which demonstrate her current suicidal tendency. Amnesty International urged the authorities to protect her from further self-harm and release her immediately. RusNews stated that the Russian authorities censored the letters, which indicated her suffering in prison and asked [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on Wednesday urging Mexican authorities to conduct a “thorough” and “impartial” investigation into a possible mass killing site outside the city of Guadalajara, in Jalisco state. According to the report, a local search collective called the Jalisco Search Warriors on March 5 uncovered a remote ranch site where [...]

The UN warned on Wednesday that the recent surge of gang violence in Haiti has led to the forced displacement of over 60,000 citizens, marking a record in the country’s already dire humanitarian situation. The UN noted that the escalation of gang violence in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, has spread to several neighborhoods outside the capital [...]

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday denied a motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to prevent Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) takeover of the US Institute of Peace (USIP), after DOGE forcibly entered the USIP offices earlier in the week. Judge Beryl Howell stated that USIP failed [...]