Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch on Friday ordered the city of Oakland, California, and its police department to release thousands of documents on police misconduct. This order was issued pursuant to a request made by journalists two years ago, following the California Legislature’s passage of a police transparency law. Two years ago, journalists [...]

The Supreme Court of Virginia Thursday ruled that the city of Charlottesville can remove two Confederate statues, including one of General Robert E. Lee for protesting the removal of which a deadly white supremacist rally took place in 2017. The court overturned a Charlottesville Circuit Court decision in favor of a group of residents who sued to [...]

Myanmar‘s ousted State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi is among several people to have been charged under the country’s colonial-era Official Secrets Act, one of her lawyers said Thursday, in what appears to be an escalation of the military junta’s campaign against her and her allies. According to chief lawyer Khin Maung Zaw, Suu Kyi [...]

The European Union on Thursday released a statement accusing the Russian Federation of conducting a “conscription campaign” in Crimea, a move it said was yet “another violation of international humanitarian law.” In the strongly-worded statement, the EU spokesperson claimed that “the Russian Federation has launched yet another conscription campaign in the illegally-annexed Autonomous Republic of [...]

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed a bill into law Thursday that will allow landlords to retrieve the pets of deceased or incapacitated tenants. House Bill 2507 amends the Arizona Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to allow landlords to save the pets of tenants who are deceased or incapacitated and whose emergency contacts do not respond to [...]

Major League Baseball (MLB) announced Friday that the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB draft will not be held in Georgia, in response to Georgia’s new voting restrictions that were signed into law on March 25.   MLB is relocating the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB Draft in response to SB 202, which aims to expand [...]

Much controversy surrounds the use of the flags associated with the Sri Lankan people, mainly because they are loaded with ethnic symbolism in a country recovering from a generation-long civil war along ethno-nationalist lines. The flags of concern here all feature big cats as central to their designs. Big cats, wherever they occur, have been [...]

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Friday that the United States would lift sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda that former President Donald Trump had imposed in September of last year. Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo imposed sanctions on ICC staff after Bensouda launched an investigation into the US military’s involvement [...]

The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities released a report Wednesday which considered the United Kingdom as a “model” for racial equality. The report, while acknowledging the existence of racism in the UK, placed the country above other European nations. It highlights the importance given to racial equality in policy decisions and in the media [...]

On Wednesday ousted lawmakers in Myanmar announced the abolition of the 2008 constitution that enshrined the military’s ability to interfere in the political situation in the country. The announcement of the repeal was issued by the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, a group of lawmakers from the National League for Democracy party, which won landslide elections [...]