The chair of the House Oversight Committee, Carolyn B. Maloney, announced Tuesday that she would be investigating claims that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy violated campaign finance laws. The announcement by Rep. Maloney came after a report by the Washington Post over the weekend alleged that, while DeJoy was the CEO of New Breed Logistics in North Carolina, he [...]
Several Pennsylvania bar exam applicants published a letter to the Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection Wednesday requesting an investigation into ExamSoft, the software being used to administer the upcoming October bar exam. The applicants expressed concerns that recent data breaches resulted from fundamental security flaws within the ExamSoft site. The applicants also allege that ExamSoft [...]
Eight Australian students filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the Australian Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley in an effort to “protect young people from the climate change impacts” of an Australian coal mine. The lawsuit comes ahead of the minister’s expected decision on whether to approve the development of a proposed open-cut coal mine, the [...]
G7 foreign ministers condemned the poisoning of Alexei Navalny Wednesday. The statement comes after UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called Tuesday for an independent Russian investigation into the poisoning. The G7 foreign ministers plan to follow the investigation efforts closely. Bachelet remarked: The number of cases of poisoning, or other forms of [...]
The Lahore Sessions Court in Pakistan on Tuesday sentenced Christian factory worker Asif Pervaiz to death for blasphemy. Pervaiz has been in custody since 2013 when he was first charged with blasphemy for messages he sent to his former supervisor, Muhammad Saeed Khokher. Judge Mansoor Ahmad Qureshi sentenced Pervaiz to serve three years in prison [...]
The US House Committee on Oversight and Reform announced in a press release Tuesday that it is opening an investigation into Fort Hood Army Base following multiple soldier deaths and reports of sexual assault. Rep. Stephen Lynch, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, and Rep. Jackie Speier, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Armed [...]
Texas state representative Carl Sherman said Sunday that he will introduce the “Botham Jean Act” to clarify the state’s “castle doctrine.” Sunday marked the two-year anniversary of the death of Botham Jean, who was shot in his home by an off-duty police officer. The proposed bill will “codify and strengthen existing criminal justice laws to [...]
Researchers at the New York University (NYU) Stern Center for Business and Human Rights released a report on Tuesday calling for amendments to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to include stronger regulatory provisions The 1996 Communications Decency Act was one of the first attempts by the US government to regulate the then-novel World [...]
The UK Ministry of Justice announced temporary legislation on Sunday that will extend the time that defendants can be held in custody while awaiting trial. This temporary legislation is meant to decrease pressure on courts from a backlog of more than 43,000 cases due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, defendants can be held for 182 [...]
A Turkish court on Monday sentenced Abdulkadir Masharipov, a citizen of Uzbekistan, to 40 life sentences without the possibility of parole plus an additional 1,338 years for a deadly 2017 attack on a night club. After Masharipov’s attack that left 39 dead, the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the attack as an act of [...]
