Amnesty International and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP) released on Thursday more than 2,700 New York Police Department (NYPD) documents obtained after a five-year lawsuit. The groups say that the documents reveal extensive and discriminatory surveillance practices. The records, ordered to be disclosed by a New York state court in 2022, show repeated use [...]
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt granted clemency on Thursday to death row inmate Tremane Wood, reducing his sentence to life in prison without parole just hours before his scheduled execution. Tremane Wood was convicted in 2004 of the first-degree murder of Ronnie Wipf and was ultimately sentenced to death. Wood’s co-defendant and brother, Zjaiton Jake Wood, [...]
A US federal judge on Thursday took up a case by eight Democratic-led states challenging the Trump administration’s termination of millions of dollars in teacher-training grants. US District Judge Angel Kelley said that the challenge to the Department of Education’s decision to cancel certain educational grants belonged both in federal district court and in the [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed concern on Wednesday over deteriorating legal protections for Uyghur migrants living in Türkiye. The report revealed that Türkiye has subjected Uyghurs to inhumane conditions and the risk of deportation to China. The report stated that Turkish authorities’ immigration crackdown involves assigning “restriction codes” to Uyghurs, denoting them as threats to [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) joined a lawsuit on Thursday over the redrawing of California’s congressional districts, requesting that the state be enjoined from using it in the 2026 election. DOJ stated in the complaint: Although the Supreme Court has allowed race-conscious redistricting to rectify prior violations of the Voting Rights Act, the Department [...]
A US federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to release hundreds of people from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers, claiming they were arrested in likely violation of the Castañon Nava federal consent decree. The order, penned by Judge Jeffrey Cummings of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, [...]
A new UN report on Thursday revealed how recent junta violence in Myanmar has violated the rights and devastated the lives of disabled persons living in the country. UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, said that discriminatory barriers for disabled persons have grown since the nation’s military coup in [...]
A US federal appellate court panel on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case to determine whether Congress may strip Planned Parenthood and its affiliates of its Medicaid funding. The case challenges the “Defund Provision” of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which excluded Planned Parenthood-affiliate organizations from federal funding. Before the US Court of [...]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged world leaders on Wednesday to prioritize Africa and promote peace, security and sustainable development on the continent. The statement follows the Ninth African Union-UN Annual Conference, where the UN and the African Union (AU) discussed the need to implement further cooperation frameworks, as well as to boost joint action to [...]
President Donald Trump signed a sweeping spending measure Wednesday, ending the longest government shutdown in US history and funding federal operations through January 2026. The House passed the bill 222-209, with six Democrats joining Republicans to secure passage despite the GOP’s narrow majority. Two Republicans voted against the measure. Republicans blamed Senate Democrats for the [...]
