Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe on Thursday filed a complaint in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against Attorney General William Barr, the US Department of Justice, the FBI and FBI Director Christopher Wray. The lawsuit alleges McCabe was subject to “a politically motivated and retaliatory demotion in January 2018 and [...]
Puerto Rico swore in its third governor of 2019, Wanda Vázquez Garced, on Wednesday after the removal of Pedro Pierluisi. Vázquez is the third governor after the resignation of elected governor, Ricardo Rosselló, and the removal of his chosen successor, Pedro Pierluisi, by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. The trouble began after group chats [...]
A bill reforming New Zealand’s Contraception, Sterilization and Abortion Act (Act) passed the first reading in Parliament on Thursday. This bill proposes several changes to the Act. According to local news sources, “the biggest changes it proposes would see a current requirement for two doctors to have to approve an abortion on physical or mental [...]
A Special Report on Climate Change was released at the UN Inter-government panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Thursday. This report focuses on greenhouse gases, land use, sustainable land management, desertification, land degradation and food security. The IPCC report details how human activity is degrading the planet, with the “rise in global temperatures, linked to [...]
A unanimous ruling by the Utah Supreme Court Tuesday denied a petition by citizens to block the governor’s and legislature’s actions on a medical marijuana bill. The case revolves around two tools the citizens of Utah have for enacting laws through ballot measures. First, in an initiative, upon receiving a sufficient number of verified signatures, [...]
In the largest single-state workplace enforcement action in US history, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed multiple federal criminal search warrants in Mississippi on Wednesday. The result was the arrest of 680 immigrant workers from seven agricultural processing plants that were raided. ICE’s newsroom released a statement, saying in part: All the unlawfully present foreign [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday upheld an injunction granted by the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas preventing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) from enforcing guidance issued in 2012. The guidance, titled Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions [...]
A group called Abused in Scouting on Tuesday announced the filing of a new sexual abuse lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America. The lawsuit, filed in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas, alleges that a former scout, known only as S.D. in the filing, was abused hundreds of times starting at age 12 for a [...]
The Trump administration and Republican party sued the state of California on Tuesday over a law signed last week by Governor Gavin Newsom that requires presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns in order to be on the state’s primary ballot. The law does not explicitly name President Donald Trump, who has not disclosed his [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday struck down Google’s $5.5. million settlement over its invasion of privacy of millions of users. Google settled $5.5 million for installing cookies in browsers and not paying users for their information. The company was accused of exploiting loopholes in the Internet Explorer and Apple [...]
