French riot police reportedly used tear gas and other non-lethal weapons, against protestors during street clashes on Tuesday, drawing strong condemnation from legal unions amid escalating student strikes across France. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has condemned the violence, which has seen students and staff injured, and defended the “proportional” response of police and law [...]
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) brought suit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to halt taxpayer-funded television advertisements promoting President Donald Trump, arguing that the spending violates federal restrictions on the use of appropriated funds for “publicity or propaganda” purposes. The complaint seeks judicial review under the Administrative Procedure [...]
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Wednesday filed a motion in the Circuit Court for Florida’s Sixth Judicial Circuit, seeking an injunction to limit child access to social media, make safety information more accessible, improve the child sexual exploitation reporting process, and disable features encouraging excessive use among teens. Florida sued under the Florida Deceptive [...]
A Cornell Special Committee on Tuesday issued a statement announcing that the university has hired Sally Yates to conduct an independent review into the adequacy of the school’s response to sexual assault allegations by a former student, identified only as Jane Doe. Yates, formerly the US deputy attorney general under Barack Obama and now a [...]
A group of former and current students of Lincoln University (LU) of Missouri on Wednesday sued the state of Missouri, alleging that the state’s intentional withholding of funds continues to perpetuate a history of “racially segregated higher education.” The LU plaintiffs argue that the state has “appropriated less per student to Lincoln than to the [...]
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International on Tuesday issued a joint statement condemning the Houthi de facto authorities in Yemen for having sent at least eight people involved in human rights and humanitarian work for criminal prosecution on espionage-related charges punishable by death since August 18. The eight include two UN employees, a UN consultant, [...]
An EU spokesperson told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) on Wednesday that amendments passed by the Kosovo Assembly to narrow the jurisdiction of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers are in conflict with the country’s international obligations to the bloc. The spokesperson stated that Kosovo should honor its international commitments and that the court’s existing mandate and [...]
Amnesty International on Wednesday called on the French government to permanently ban stun grenades in the policing of all protests, saying the announcement of a temporary suspension does not go far enough. Welcoming the announcement from the French government, Anne Savinel-Barras, president of Amnesty International France, stated: While the suspension of the use of these [...]
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Tuesday condemned new building demolitions in the West Bank that have displaced 69 Palestinians, calling it the largest single-demolition displacement in East Jerusalem since the agency began tracking these figures in 2009. OCHA said that Israeli authorities demolished a residential bloc in At Tur [...]
A federal judge on Tuesday heard arguments on the attempt by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) to block the early review by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of its stations’ broadcast licenses, but did not issue an immediate ruling. During a two-hour hearing, Judge Loren AliKhan for the US District Court for the District of [...]
