In a filing before the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) stated that FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel will not serve as poll monitors during the 2026 midterm elections. Eric Neff, acting chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division [...]
US civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s “Unlawful Voter Initiative,” days ahead of midterm elections. The plaintiff organizations, which include the ACLU Voting Rights Project, OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates, and Common Cause, filed the suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of [...]
The United States Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the Anne Arundel County Board of Education alleging that the Maryland county’s school district’s policy on gender identity and expression violates federal law. Specifically, the department claims that the school district’s policy perpetuates “secretly gender transitioning” students without parental consent [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) concluded Wednesday that Rio de Janeiro police obstructed their body cameras during a 2025 raid that killed 122 people, and that none of the footage it reviewed shows the killings. The year-long investigation found that police breached orders from Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court and their own protocols during Operation Containment, carried out October 28, 2025, in the [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied an emergency application to reinstate a 2024 federal regulation that allowed immigration judges to temporarily pause deportation proceedings through a practice known as administrative closure. In a one-sentence unsigned order in City of Baltimore v. Texas with no noted dissents, the Court left in place a June 22 [...]
The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Tuesday that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases reached record highs in 2025—another portent of global warming, which increases the frequency of extreme weather events and associated risks to societies and economies. WMO deputy secretary-general Ko Barrett stated: “The past 11 years have [...]
James Comey, former FBI director, was charged on Monday with leaking national security information, and conspiring to leak such information, while directing the FBI in 2016. Comey was charged with violating the Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. § 793(d), which criminalizes improperly sharing any document that “relat to the national defense, or information relating to the national [...]
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed that the “Leave India Notice” issued to Bollywood actor Imran Khan by the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer (FRRO), Mumbai, be kept in abeyance until November 2. A division bench adjourned the hearing after the Additional Solicitor General of India sought deferment and recorded that the notice dated October [...]
Australian Supreme Court Judge Claire Harris on Monday rejected prisoner Andre McKechnie’s human rights challenge to the ban on the spread Vegemite in Australian prisons on the grounds that its ban is “demonstrably justified” by the management, security, and good order of the prison and welfare of the prisoners. McKechnie filed a “frivolous” suit last [...]
The UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced charges on Tuesday against two British men under the National Security Act 2023 (NSA) over a suspected Iranian-backed plot targeting Royal Air Force (RAF) Fairford, a military air base in Gloucestershire, England, which is jointly operated with the US. Chief Crown Prosecutor Frank Ferguson of the CPS Special [...]
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