A Russian soldier was sentenced to life in prison Monday for killing a 62-year-old unarmed civilian during the Battle of Sumy, in Ukraine’s northeast, after pleading guilty to charges of premeditated murder and violating the laws and customs of war. Ukraine’s Solomianskyi District Court of Kyiv sentenced Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin after prosecutors presented evidence that [...]

The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv in Ukraine Monday ordered the arrest in absentia of ex-president Viktor Yanukovich on charges of treason for signing the “Kharkiv Pact” in 2010. The agreement allowed Russia to lease naval facilities in Crimea until 2042. The court, with the participation of prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General, charged [...]

A California court Monday allowed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Tesla to move forward instead of being sent to private arbitration. Judge Stephen Kraus of the Alameda County Superior Court denied Tesla, Inc.’s (Tesla) motion to compel arbitration in a brief one-sentence order without providing explanation. Judge Kraus allowed the lawsuit to move forward in [...]

The campaign of David McCormick Monday asked a Pennsylvania court “to count absentee and mail-in ballots that were returned on time but that lack a handwritten date on the exterior mailing envelope.” McCormick and Dr. Mehmet Oz are close candidates in the Republican primary contest for Pennsylvania’s open seat in the US Senate. McCormick filed [...]

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine Monday announced a lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for violating the district’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act (CPPA) in relation to the Cambridge Analytica data breach. According to the complaint, the Cambridge Analytica Facebook data breach was the “largest consumer privacy scandal” in US history. The District of Columbia [...]

Complaints of sexual abuse were mishandled by the US Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) for decades, according to a report from an internal sexual abuse task force team released Sunday. The full report reveals that individuals who reported sexual abuse by pastors and staff were “ignored, disbelieved, or met with the constant refrain that the SBC [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled 9-0 Monday in Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. against a fast-food franchise owner who sought arbitration only after beginning to litigate a claim filed by an employee. Petitioner Robyn Morgan worked at a Taco Bell franchise owned by Sundance. Morgan signed an agreement when she applied for the job to arbitrate any [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday ruled 6-3 in Shinn v. Ramirez that “a federal habeas court may not conduct an evidentiary hearing or otherwise consider evidence beyond the state-court record based on the ineffective assistance of state postconviction counsel.” In Shinn, two prisoners filed for federal habeas relief under 28 USC §2254. The Sixth Amendment [...]

The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court Sunday overruled a police order prohibiting three Jews from praying at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in contravention of a prolonged understanding between Israel and Jordan. Earlier this week Israeli police prohibited three Jews from entering the mosque compound for 15 days after they prostrated themselves and recited the Shema, a Jewish [...]

More than 100 million individuals around the world have been driven from their homes due to the Ukraine war and other conflicts, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) revealed Sunday. The UNHCR cited new data regarding individuals forced to flee to escape “conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution” The Ukraine war has been a main propellant [...]