President Biden announced Monday that he would raise the United States’ refugee admissions cap to 62,500 for fiscal year 2021. Biden previously announced he would retain former President Trump’s 15,000 cap despite promising an increased figure on the campaign trial. In April, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the President wanted to accept more [...]

Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Zubaydah, who has been detained for 19 years without charges or a trial, filed a complaint on Friday with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions (UNWGAD) requesting intervention in his case. Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan after the September 11 attacks and was held and tortured by the CIA in [...]

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem filed a federal lawsuit on Friday against the US Department of Interior after the National Park Service denied her request to set off fireworks over Mount Rushmore National Monument on the Fourth of July. The use of fireworks over Mount Rushmore was indefinitely canceled in 2010 due to the concern [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments  Wednesday for Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. and PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey. In PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey, the Supreme Court will determine whether PennEast Pipeline Co. can run a pipeline through New Jersey’s state-controlled land. PennEast argues that it is permissible to take [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday revived a 2003 breach of trust claim by the Navajo Nation that would require the US government to allocate water for the tribe. Going forward, this case will look at whether the government has a fiduciary duty to ensure that the amount of water [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit concluded Thursday that Kentucky may enforce price gouging laws against sellers on Amazon, overturning a district court preliminary injunction. Price gouging is the practice of unfairly and dramatically increasing the price of a commodity during spikes in demand. Reports of such activity have risen since the [...]

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The Florida legislature passed a bill Thursday that changes vote by mail procedures and adds restrictions on the use of drop boxes. Senate Bill 90, passed by both chambers of the legislature, requires Floridians voting by mail to affirmatively request absentee ballots for each election and only permits dropbox use “during the county’s early voting [...]

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court held Thursday that several provisions in the country’s Federal Climate Change Act of 2019 were insufficient and violate freedoms in the Basic Law. The court described the idea of climate change having severe impacts that affect virtually all aspects of human life. The case started in 2019 when farming families from [...]

US President Joe Biden pushed for gun control legislation Wednesday evening in his first major address to Congress. Banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as closing background check loopholes, are proposals the president is hoping to sign during his administration. “These kinds of reasonable reforms have overwhelming support from the American people, including [...]