The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded two days of hearings Friday on the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, OH in February. In an unusual move, the NTSB chose to hold the public hearings in East Palestine, rather than Washington DC. Day one focused on the agency response and intentional venting of [...]
Members of the US House of Representatives introduced two resolutions on Friday, H.Res.547 and H.Res.538, that would expunge the impeachments of former President Donald Trump. Trump is the third US president to be impeached and the only president to be impeached twice. If passed, both resolutions would expunge Trump’s impeachments as if they had not [...]
The Organization of American States (OAS) on Friday announced that it approved a resolution urging Nicaragua to “cease all human rights violations, release political prisoners, and respect religious freedom and freedom of expression, as well as the rule of law.” The resolution was led by the US, Canada, Chile and Costa Rica. The OAS’s Inter-American [...]
In a statement to the press on Saturday, the UN Security Council called for fighting to stop in Sudan in the name of civilian protection. “The fighting has to stop,” said Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of [...]
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) decided it its third regular plenary meeting on Friday to add Croatia to its “grey list,” along with Cameroon and Vietnam. Countries on the “grey list” are the “jurisdictions under increased monitoring.” The move makes Croatia the only EU member on the list, and the stated reason is the [...]
A public prosecutor in Tunisia on Friday appealed the decision to release opposition figure Chaima Issa from prison, according to local news. As a result, Issa was not able to leave prison on Friday. Issa’s lawyer told local news that the decision came after a counter order was given to the public prosecutor. He emphasized that [...]
Mystery continues to shroud the deal that saw Yevgeny Prigozhin call off his mercenary forces as they marched largely undeterred toward Moscow on Saturday. Kremlin officials have announced that Russia would not pursue criminal charges against the Wagner leader, whom Russian leader Vladimir Putin had accused a day prior of treason, but all sides have [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in US v. Hansen that 8 U.S.C. §1324(a)(1)(A)(iv), a federal law that criminalizes the encouragement of illegal immigration, does not violate the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for the majority, criticized the lower court ruling, which called the law “overbroad,” saying: Properly interpreted, [...]
Wagner troops abruptly reversed course after advancing through southern Russia toward Moscow on Saturday, bringing an apparent end to an acute civil crisis that had boiled over between the mercenary forces and the Kremlin. Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner Private Military Company, announced Saturday: In the course of a day, we marched to 200 [...]
Multiple Russian regions declared strict security measures on Saturday as Wagner forces continued their advance toward Moscow. Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin issued a flurry of announcements related to heightened restrictions in the capital, as regional authorities in Lipetsk acknowledged that Wagner forces had entered their territory in the hours after the mercenary forces claimed to [...]
