US President Donald Trump granted two full presidential pardons Tuesday to Dwight Lincoln Hammond, Jr., and his son, Steven Hammond, cattle ranchers in Oregon who were serving 5-year sentences for arson on federal land. It was this sentencing that set off a 41-day armed occupation of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016. While the [...]

Myanmar prosecutors on Monday charged two Reuters  reporters with violating the 1911 Official Secrets Act by reporting on military unrest in the state of Rakhine. Thie act has been amended multiple times and is intended to protect the state from espionage and spying. Myanmar officials alleged the reporters obtained classified military documents and had the [...]

The US District Court for the Southern District of California  on Monday extended  the deadline for US attorneys to reunite 102 immigrant children with their families. Under a June 26 order granting  the plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was to reunite children under five years old with their families by Monday, [...]

US President Donald Trump on Monday nominated  Brett M. Kavanaugh of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit  to the US Supreme Court to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who will retire  on July 31st.  Kennedy was nominated  in 1987 by then-president Ronald Reagan. He was seen as having a relatively  neutral ideology and methodology of interpretation. Throughout his [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld Monday a $10 billion class action settlement against Volkswagen for a 2015 emissions cheating scandal. Volkswagen has admitted to installing devices in certain models of their diesel vehicles to have them defeat US emissions tests. Anywhere from 10-40 times the legal amount of diesel fumes were being [...]

Within 24 hours, three cabinet members tasked with coordinating the UK’s leave from the European Union known as Brexit have resigned. The first, Secretary of State David Davis, who submitted his resignation late Sunday, was shortly followed by a junior secretary at the Department for Exiting the EU, Steve Baker. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson announced his [...]

The European Parliament voted down a highly-debated copyright bill Thursday, which would have made sweeping changes to the copyright regulation of online media. It was a bill big firms such as Google and Facebook argued would stifle creativity and sharing, as it aimed to regulate these companies’ monitoring more closely for infringements. License holders — publishers, [...]

France’s Constitutional Council ruled  Friday that a farmer who aided migrants crossing France’s border with Italy was immune from prosecution because he operated on the principle of “fraternity” during the course of his actions. According to the council, this is the first time they have “held that fraternity is a principle with constitutional value,” citing [...]

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said Thursday it needs more time to accurately identify the parents of detained immigrant children. The response follows a June 26 court order in the US District Court for the Southern District of California . ICE wrote that they would be using DNA testing to identify the parents [...]

According to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) form  first obtained by NBC News   Tuesday, detained immigrant parents, even those with pending asylum claims, must choose between returning to their country with or without their children. The form is to be read to the parents in a language that they know and has them sign for either [...]