This article includes reporting by JURIST’s Alumni Engagement Coordinator Sean Nolan Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden has escalated his investigation into billionaire Harlan Crow’s tax treatment of luxury trips provided to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, according to a letter sent to Crow’s attorney on Monday. In the letter, Wyden, a Democratic Senator from Oregon, expressed [...]

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned following weeks of deadly nationwide protests calling for quota reform, Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman announced in an address to the nation on Monday. The news comes as Sheikh Hasina fled the country and took refuge in India after protestors called for her resignation, storming her residential home in Dhaka. According [...]

Armed attackers injured at least 10 Guarani and Kaiowá Indigenous peoples reclaiming their land in Lagoa Rica, Brazil on Saturday. The attackers were mobilized by misinformation on social media characterizing the legal reclamation of Guarani and Kaiowá land as an “invasion” beyond the land that was allocated for reclamation. The attackers are alleged to have [...]

The Council of the EU on Monday announced that existing sanctions will extend to 28 new individuals for participation in “ongoing internal repression and human rights violations in Belarus”.  These sanctions restrict listed individuals or entities from traveling to or within the EU and forbid EU citizens and companies from making funds available to these [...]

The Association of Autonomous Austrian Women’s Shelters (AÖF) reported a record high in femicides in the country on Sunday. AÖF reports that every month, about three women are murdered in Austria. The majority of these murders involve a partner or family relationship between the perpetrator and the victim. The organization claims there have been 15 [...]

Police in the German region of Baden-Württemberg announced that they had shut down a public reading by far-right author Martin Sellner on Saturday, local media reported. The police said that Sellner had received a temporary ban from Neulingen, a municipality in the area. The prohibition was based on the Baden-Württemberg Police Act, which allows for [...]

The President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, on Sunday called for an end to mass protests over economic hardship prevailing in the West African nation, stating that the demonstrations have turned violent. In a televised address, Tinubu acknowledged the frustrations of the protesters and expressed his commitment to dialogue, urging citizens to refrain from violence and destruction that could harm the [...]

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Monday that the country’s threat level is being increased from “possible to probable” at a press conference in Canberra with Mike Burgess, the Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. The officials cited an increase in extremist views in the country leading to a more than 50% chance of [...]

On Sunday, residents in the southern Albanian municipality of Himare voted to elect a new mayor after the previous mayor-elect was jailed on charges of election fraud in 2023. The previous election in May 2023 saw the “Together We Win” coalition’s nominee Fredi Beleri come out ahead of his rivals. However, the success was short-lived [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected a First Amendment challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which penalizes unauthorized access to copyrighted material and limits the scope of “fair use” exceptions. Filed by Judge Nina Pillard, the decision stated that while the First Amendment protects the right to read, it [...]