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A coalition of Texas voters backed by the National Redistricting Foundation filed a sweeping federal challenge late Saturday to House Bill 4, the mid-decade congressional map the Legislature approved just after midnight on August 23. The Second Supplemental Complaint, lodged before a three-judge panel, accuses state officials of intentionally dismantling performing majority-minority districts in Houston, [...]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers notified a US trial judge on Saturday of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) intention to deport Garcia to Uganda. ICE informed the lawyers through email immediately following Garcia’s court-ordered release on Friday, abruptly changing its prior aim to deport Garcia to Costa Rica. The day before Garcia’s release, President Donald [...]

The National Assembly of the autonomous Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) on Friday voted to call for a referendum on a federal court’s decision to ban the entity’s former president from holding office. In a late-night session, the assembly rejected the decision of BiH’s Central Election Commission to terminate Milorad Dodik’s mandate, declaring [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday released transcripts of its interview with Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently imprisoned over a sex-trafficking case. According to the transcripts, Maxwell recalled that she first knew about Donald Trump, and possibly met him, in 1990 when she visited the US on a business [...]

UN human rights experts expressed deep concern on Thursday over continuing violence against the Druze population in the Sweida region of Syria. Since the outbreak of fighting in mid-July, the UN experts said they have received reports of “killings, enforced disappearances, abductions, looting, destruction of property, and sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls.” [...]

India’s Supreme Court on Friday directed that canines picked up in the country’s National Capital Region (NCR) be sterilized, vaccinated, dewormed, and then released back to the localities from which they were taken, in line with the Animal Birth Control (ABC) Rules, 2023. A three-judge bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and NV Anjaria [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) expressed concern on Wednesday over the abduction and detention of several journalists in Ethiopia. In its statement, the CPJ said it is “deeply alarmed” by the abduction of Ethiopian newspaper editor Yonas Amare as well as the detentions of journalist Khadar Mohamed Ismael and radio host Abdulsemed Mohammed. Several [...]

A US appeals court on Friday upheld a 2023 suspension of a 98-year-old judge who refused to take medical evaluations, preventing cases from being assigned to her. The D.C. Circuit held that it had no authority to review most of Judge Pauline Newman’s claims due to Section 357(c) of the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act, [...]

A report released by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) program on Friday found that a “famine is currently occurring in Gaza Governorate,” the district covering Gaza City, and is “rapidly spreading.” Multiple international organizations have renewed their calls for an immediate ceasefire to facilitate an “unimpeded, large-scale humanitarian response that can save [...]

The US Department of Education announced on Friday its determination that George Mason University (GMU) violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) alleged that the university illegally considered race, sex, and “other immutable characteristics” in hiring and promotion. Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig [...]