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The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to hold Meta—parent company of Facebook—liable for its alleged role in helping radicalize Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof. The court upheld a lower district court’s decision after a woman, denoted as M.P., filed a complaint asserting that Facebook’s algorithm repeatedly [...]

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INTERPOL reported on Tuesday that “Operation Thunder” 2024 against wildlife and forestry trafficking, coordinated jointly with the World Customs Organization (WCO), resulted in the seizure of nearly 20,000 live animals and the arrest of 365 suspects. In 2024, Operation Thunder united law enforcement agencies from 138 countries and regions, making it the largest-ever global operation [...]

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Doctors for America, a non-profit medical advocacy organization in the US, has sued the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), alleging that the removal of public health information considered to be a part [...]

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Amnesty International urged the government of the Philippines on Wednesday to cease using the country’s anti-terrorism laws against development workers and human rights activists, and to halt its “crackdown” on human rights organizations. The rights group called on the Philippine authorities to amend their current legislation and to implement a suitable environment that allows human [...]

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Two groups of FBI employees sued (see here and here) the Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to protect agents who were involved in the investigation of persons suspected of being involved in the attack on the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, and of the unlawful removal of classified documents by Donald Trump to [...]

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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) authorized the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Tuesday to participate in the advisory proceedings concerning Israel’s obligations in relation to the presence and activities of the UN, international organizations, and third states in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The ICJ announced that Acting President Judge Julia Sebutinde had determined that [...]

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The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced the arrival of 10 migrants at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility on Wednesday, after they took off the day before on the first US military plane headed there for the new mission. The DOD’s statement said: “These 10 high-threat individuals are currently being housed in vacant detention facilities.” [...]

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The US Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general. The Senate Judiciary Committee had advanced Bondi’s nomination to the full Senate vote last Wednesday. Bondi, a Florida native, spent 18 years as a prosecutor and became the first female attorney general in Florida in 2011. She chairs the Center for Litigation and co-chairs the [...]

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Multiple plaintiffs filed a lawsuit on Tuesday asking a federal court in Maryland to block President Donald Trump’s executive order to discontinue all federal funding for gender-affirming care in individuals under the age of 19. The lawsuit asked for a preliminary and permanent injunction based on several grounds. Plaintiffs alleged that the order violated the [...]

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UN officials warned on Tuesday that the US suspension of foreign aid programs could lead to millions of women and girls facing life-threatening risks. Pio Smith, UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, said the UNFPA will suspend services funded by US aid in South Asia. As a result, in Afghanistan, [...]

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