The Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday  released a mid-year crime trends report which illustrated that homicides in large US cities fell by 18 percent in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period last year, effectively putting the country on track for its lowest annual homicide rate in over a century. [...]

A group of federal employees and their union on Thursday requested that a federal court temporarily bar Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins from sending official communications that “proselytize, promote, or favor any particular religion” to US Department of Agriculture (USDA) employees while their constitutional challenge proceeds. The motion for a preliminary injunction was filed in [...]

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores appeared in a Manhattan federal court Wednesday, where Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein set a June 1, 2027 trial date at the request of lawyers for both the prosecution and the defense. Under the now approved schedule, the defense will file requests in early September to challenge [...]

Former US Attorney General Roger Rogoff on Tuesday sued President Donald Trump’s administration for firing him just hours after he was appointed to the position, claiming that his removal violates federal statutes and the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. In his complaint, Rogoff claims that by firing him and “committing to firing anyone else a [...]

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on Tuesday voted to advance a proposal that would end a nearly 60-year-old requirement for millions of employers to report the race and sex demographics of their workforce to the federal government. In 1966, the newly formed EEOC enacted its EEO-1 reporting requirement, mandating that employers with 100 [...]

The US Department of Justice on Monday opened a compliance review into Harvard University to determine whether financial aid programs funded by China-based sources actively discriminate against American students. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division will examine whether Harvard violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits recipients of federal financial assistance [...]

The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday gave its final approval to a $1.5 billion settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic case, in which it was alleged that Anthropic had used pirated books as material to train its Claude AI platform. The settlement came after a year in the courts, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Tuesday detailing four attacks on Ecuadorian persons, properties and vessels that they attribute to an intensified counter-narcotics campaign led by the US with the partnership of the Ecuadorian government. The first attack took place in March on the farming community of San Martín, Sucumbíos province, and was [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday reported that the United Nations is facing a severe funding crisis, largely because major contributors like the US and China, who together supply nearly half of all member-state dues, have either failed to pay or consistently paid late. This has resulted in job cuts throughout the organization as well [...]

Meta Platforms went to trial on Monday in the Chancery Court for Davidson County in Nashville in a civil enforcement action brought by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti regarding allegations that the company designed Instagram with the goal of intentionally promoting addiction in young users and deliberately misleading the public about the platform’s safety. The [...]