Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on Monday signed into law a landmark artificial intelligence (AI) bill, cementing the state as a “national leader in setting guardrails for responsible innovation and growth.” Senate Bill 315, or the AI Safety Measures Act, implements new safety regulations on AI companies developing frontier models, the most advanced and costliest AI [...]

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported Monday that more than 300 children were killed or injured in Sudan during the first six months of 2026, warning that intensified fighting in the Darfur and Kordofan regions has continued to place children at heightened risk. According to UNICEF, Darfur and Kordofan have recorded the highest number [...]

Bahrain’s High Criminal Court held its first hearing Sunday in a national security case involving 19 defendants accused of forming and operating a terrorist organization linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The case concerns 19 individuals, of whom 11 are currently in custody and eight remain at large. Prosecutors allege the group sought [...]

The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday issued a stay of proceedings and recalled a pending arrest warrant against state Attorney General Liz Murrill. The 5-2 per curiam decision pointed out “disturbing defects” in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court’s procedure, namely the (1) failure to follow the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure and administer a grand [...]

The British and Dutch governments made a public apology on Thursday to the people affected by the forced separation and forced adoptions of children in the second half of the last century. In England, between 1949 and 1976, the state and the Christian church created a system that targeted young unmarried women who had children [...]

A UN expert warned Thursday that racism, xenophobia, discrimination and other forms of intolerance are entrenched across professional sports. Dr. Ashwani K.P., the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, gave her report to the Human Rights Council, saying that “sport has the extraordinary ability to bring people together… yet, sport is not isolated [...]

A coalition of human rights organizations urged the EU and its member states Wednesday to demand transparency and human rights safeguards in ongoing negotiations for a bilateral extradition treaty between Vietnam and Thailand, warning that the agreement could provide a legal framework for the politically motivated arrest and forced return of Vietnamese dissidents and refugees. [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday prevented Philadelphia’s “ICE OUT” mandate from taking effect, holding that the law requiring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to remove masks and display badges sidesteps the Constitution’s “clear mandate” that localities do to interfere with federal law enforcement. In a lawsuit by the Department of Justice (DOJ) disputing [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday warned that the recent move by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to submit formal notifications of withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) paints a bleak future for thousands of conflict survivors, threatening their right to truth, justice and reparations. Commenting on the gravity of this decision for victims [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday released a report concluding that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during their siege and capture of El Fasher in North Darfur state, Sudan. The report, titled “City Under Siege, Children Under Fire: Rapid Support Forces’ Crimes Against Humanity in North Darfur,” documents the slow, [...]