Former CIA Agent Joshua Schulte was convicted on espionage charges in federal court Wednesday for providing national defense information to the website Wikileaks. Schulte was charged in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York back in 2018 with a 13 count superseding indictment which included espionage charges, child pornography charges, and [...]

A Tokyo District Court on Wednesday found four former executives of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) responsible for operating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant liable for its 2011 meltdown. The court ordered the four defendants to pay damages of around 13 trillion Yen (US$ 94 billion) to TEPCO shareholders for negligence and failure [...]

Two men from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Tuesday pled guilty in federal court to charges of trafficking protected animal products from the DRC into the US. Herdade Lokua and Jospin Mujangi admitted before the US District Court for the Western District of Washington they had worked with a middleman since November 2019 to [...]

Twitter sued billionaire and CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk Tuesday in an effort to force him to complete his US$44 billion acquisition of the social media company. In April Twitter’s board of directors accepted Musk’s offer to purchase the social media platform for $44 billion, at $54.20 a share. Lawyers for Twitter filed a lawsuit in [...]

The US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack Tuesday presented evidence that extremist groups showed up in Washington DC with violent intentions in response a to tweet from Former US President Donald Trump. The hearing also unveiled radical proposals from Trump allies, discussed hours before the tweet was posted, and showed that the riot [...]

North Korea’s government Wednesday recognized two breakaway states claiming internationally-recognized Ukrainian territory as independent. North Korea is the third country to recognize the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, after Russia and Syria. Ukraine, and much of the international community, recognizes them as part of Ukraine. On February 22, two days before Russia [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) does not preempt a Georgia man from making a failure to warn claim in his lawsuit against Bayer, the manufacturer of the weedkiller Roundup. This decision results from an appeal from the US District Court [...]

Louisiana Judge Donald Johnson Tuesday granted a petition filed by reproductive health providers against the state’s abortion ban, the latest in a back-and-forth case set in motion after the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. Johnson granted a temporary restraining order against state laws designed to take effect after Roe v. Wade was [...]

Two New York residents and a gun rights group Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging New York’s assault weapons ban following the US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down one of New York’s concealed carry regulations. The lawsuit alleges that New York’s definition of “assault weapon” infringes upon individuals’ Second Amendment rights to keep and bear [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom Tuesday signed a new law which allows California residents to sue gun manufacturers if they are harmed by a gun manufacturer’s product. The law also establishes new firearms regulations and empowers the state and its local governments to sue manufactures if they do not comply. Assembly Bill No. 1594 (AB 1594) [...]