The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the results of an investigation into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday, determining that Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli were improperly appointed to their positions. After the departure of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in April 2019, Kevin McAleenan assumed [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it had seized millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency from terrorist organizations al-Qassam Brigades, al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The details of this operation, dubbed by the DOJ as the government’s “largest ever seizure of terrorist organizations’ cryptocurrency accounts,” [...]
A US federal judge Thursday ordered the Trump campaign to provide evidence of voter fraud in Pennsylvania’s vote-by-mail election system. Thursday’s order requires the campaign to submit evidence to the court by Friday. Judge Nicholas Ranjan of the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania stated that the “Court finds that instances of [...]
The Parliament of Lebanon granted the national army broad emergency powers on Thursday after approving a state of emergency declaration for Beirut in response to unrest over the massive explosion in the city’s port that killed at least 200 people. Following the explosion of more than 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate warehoused in Beirut’s port [...]
The US Supreme Court denied the application for stay in a Rhode Island absentee ballot case on Thursday, which allows an order suspending a two-witness requirement for absentee ballots to stand for the September primary. In order to vote by absentee ballot in Rhode Island, voters were previously required to have their absentee ballots signed [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the all-male military draft system on Thursday. Under the Military Selective Service Act, men between the ages of 18 and 26 are required to register with the Selective Service System. Men who fail to register may be fined, imprisoned and/or denied federal [...]
In a notice letter, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) accused Yale University on Thursday of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by discriminating against white and Asian American applicants. Because Yale receives substantial taxpayer funding, the university has to agree to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act [...]
The Trump administration is reportedly considering blocking American citizens and legal permanent residents exposed to the novel coronavirus, from re-entering the United States. One of President Donald Trump’s most reported travel restrictions in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the March Europe travel ban, did not “apply to permanent residents (generally) immediate family members of US [...]
New UK police powers took effect on Thursday that allow trained officers to stop, question, and, where necessary, detain and search individuals traveling through UK ports to determine involvement in hostile state activity. The powers were introduced in Schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019. Hitherto, a police officer had to have reasonable [...]
In India, a new education policy typically comes along only once every few decades. The first education policy was in 1968, introduced by the administration under Mrs. Indira Gandhi. This was replaced by the National education policy in 1986, by her son Mr. Rajiv Gandhi who was Prime Minister at that time. A few years [...]
