The Supreme Court of Utah on Thursday upheld a lower court’s decision to temporarily block a state law that bans nearly all abortions. In a 4-1 majority opinion written by Associate Chief Justice John A. Pearce, the court found that the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah (PPAU) had standing and that the lower court did [...]

US lawmakers sought answers from the White House on Friday following revelations that three men accused of having orchestrated the 9/11 terror attacks had been spared the death penalty after striking a plea deal with military prosecutors. On Wednesday, a letter to the families of 9/11 victims revealed that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Walid Bin ‘Attash, [...]

Social media platform TikTok and its parent company ByteDance are facing civil charges of violating children’s privacy laws, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday. US authorities claim that TikTok knowingly allowed children under 13 to create accounts and share content without parental consent, failing to adequately protect minors’ personal information as required by [...]

Scotland’s ex-First Minister Hamza Yousaf urged the British Home Secretary to categorise the English Defence League (EDL) as a terrorist group under the Terrorism Act 2000, in the letter he wrote Wednesday. Particularly, Yousaf accused EDL as “far right bigots” who hijacked the country’s grief for the victims of the Southport stabbing for “nefarious purposes”–spreading [...]

The governor of Kano State, Nigeria, issued a 24-hour curfew on Thursday after crowds looted and destroyed property amid anti-corruption protests. Following the curfew, all citizens are expected to stay home, prohibiting them from demonstrating. Protesters set fire to tires in front of the state governor’s residence, while looters broke into a nearby warehouse and [...]

The Bangladeshi government banned Thursday Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student organization Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir, on the charges of crimes against humanity and “terrorist activities” in the country’s quota reform movement. Under Section 18 of Bangladesh’s Anti-Terrorism Act, if an organization is reasonably suspected to be a terrorist organization, the government can freeze its financial assets, [...]

The Irish High Court declared Thursday that the Irish government’s failure to provide for the basic needs of asylum seekers in Ireland is in breach of its legal obligations under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (CFR). Mr Justice Barry O’Donnell held that applicants for international protection in Ireland equally enjoy the right to human [...]

The US recognized Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia’s claim to winning the presidential election against President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday in discrediting the results Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated in a press statement that it is clear to Venezuelans and the US that González won the majority [...]

US Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer introduced on Thursday the No Kings Act, establishing that US presidents and vice presidents do not enjoy immunity for violating federal criminal law. The bill relies on several provisions of the US Constitution, including the Necessary and Proper Clause under Article 1, Section 8 which gives Congress the authority [...]

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former Marine Paul Whelan, and several other high-profile detainees were released into US custody on Thursday in the largest prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow since the Cold War. In a statement, US President Joe Biden lauded the swap, which was staged at Türkiye’s Ankara airport, as a “feat [...]