Meta Platforms, Inc. on Wednesday was ordered to pay $25 billion in civil penalties after a New Mexico court found that Facebook repeatedly misled consumers about its data privacy practices, third-party access to personal information, and efforts to address misinformation and hate speech. The ruling follows a September jury verdict finding nearly 44 million violations [...]
Ohio State University disputed findings issued Wednesday by the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, which concluded that Ohio State’s College of Medicine discriminates on the basis of race in admissions, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision restricting the use of race [...]
In a succinct unsigned opinion, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s request to stay an injunction that would bar implementation of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy denying gender-affirming care to transgender inmates in federal prisons. Justices Thomas and Alito would have granted the administration’s call for a stay. This [...]
After a three-day visit to the country, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Tuesday urged Bangladesh to end child marriage and close the gaps in national law that still allow it. In a statement released on October 20, Russell called for immediate investment in Bangladesh’s children. Her first priority was ending child marriage and keeping [...]
Non-profit organization Liberty Justice Center, on behalf of US food importer Gellert Global Group, initiated a lawsuit on Tuesday against US President Donald Trump’s administration’s latest tariffs on imports from Canada. The lawsuit argues the duties represent another attempt to use a Depression-era trade statute, Section 338, to exceed his power as president and claim [...]
The US District Court for the Northern District of Missouri on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) against xAI and MZX Tech. Judge Debra Brown said that the Clean Air Act (CAA) gives the administrator of the EPA the [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged the European Union (EU), Belgium and Denmark to press Vietnamese President To Lam to address the country’s deteriorating human rights situation during his October 19–24 visit to Europe. HRW said that Vietnam’s government has intensified its crackdown on basic freedoms, including freedom of expression, peaceful activism, and independent [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk conveyed to the Committee on World Food Security on Monday that while legal instruments safeguarding the fundamental right to food have been strengthened in recent years, these theoretical protections have yet to manifest into access to adequate or consistent food for over a quarter of the world’s [...]
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday announced that state prosecutors have obtained an arrest warrant for former Cuban president Raúl Castro. Castro is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with a 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes flying over international waters. In a statement, Uthmeier said: Raúl Castro ordered the [...]
The UN warned on Monday that armed groups in Haiti are adapting their reprisals against civilians as security forces intensify their operations, which has exacerbated the security crisis and led to the indefinite postponement of legislative elections that had been scheduled for December 13. UN experts on Haiti presented a briefing to the UN Security [...]
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