Two members of a three judge panel of the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday affirmed a lower court ruling that struck down California’s ban on large capacity magazines that hold more than ten rounds of ammunition. The opinion, by Trump appointee Judge Kenneth Lee, held that the ban struck “at the core [...]

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts was set to sign a bill on Saturday which would ban a common abortion procedure. The bill was passed by the Nebraska state legislature on Thursday. The bill, LB 814, would prohibit a physician from performing a D & E, or dilation and evacuation, procedure on a woman who is seeking [...]

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced at Pittsburgh’s Energy Innovation Center on Thursday that the EPA will remove “ineffective and duplicative” regulations on oil and natural gas companies. The announcement adheres to President Donald Trump’s 2017 executive order on promoting energy independence and economic growth, which states “t is in the national interest [...]

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 [...]