Russia’s lower house, the State Duma, passed a bill on Thursday that would fine individuals and companies for spreading “fake news.” The Duma defines fake news as “unreliable socially significant information distributed under the guise of authentic messages and posing a security risk.” Russia’s Prosecutor General will be the one to determine whether the information in question falls into [...]
The US House of Representatives passed HR-1 Friday, dubbed the For the People Act, to “make it easier, not harder, to vote,” which overhauls a number of voting rules in campaign finance, access to voting, and ethics rules. The bill contains provisions to update voter registration, including automatic voter registration, prohibiting deceptive practice and preventing [...]
Twenty-eight players of the US Women’s National Team (USWNT) sued the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) Friday for multiple claims of gender discrimination. In a complaint filed in federal district court in California, the women allege that the USSF has consistently discriminated against them based on their gender, treating them as inferior to the male [...]
Officials from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Department of Justice (DOJ), IRS and Homeland Security announced the filing of a four-count criminal indictment against Gulnara Karimova, daughter of the former president of Uzbekistan, and others on Thursday. Karimova, a former government official and telecommunications executive, in connection to a [...]
The US House of Representatives passed a resolution Thursday condemning anti-Semitism, along with select other forms of demonstrable hate against people based on their race, religion and nation allegiance, by a vote of 407-32. The resolution came in the wake of political backlash against comments made by freshmen Representative Ilhan Omar. What began as an [...]
US Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan testified in front of the House Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government of the House Committee on Appropriations on Thursday regarding the court’s budget for 2020. In Alito’s opening statement to the House, he said the that the request would come in two parts. The [...]
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to 47 months in prison. Manafort was found guilty of eight charges of bank and tax fraud in August, which, under federal sentencing guidelines, could have resulted in a prison term of 19-24 years, as projected by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team in their sentencing memo. [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted an injunction on Wednesday that prevents a citizenship question from appearing on the 2020 census. The Secretary of Commerce had previously ordered the question, “Is this person a citizen of the United States?” to appear on the 2020 census. The Department [...]
US President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, filed suit in the New York Supreme Court against the Trump Organization Thursday. Cohen alleges that the Trump Organization failed to meet its obligations under the indemnification clause of their contractual agreement and should have to pay for the legal fees in connection with the work he performed [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held Wednesday that a policy of the Board of Regents for the University System of Georgia barring the enrollment of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients at Georgia’s most selective universities had a rational basis and was not superseded by federal law. Three DACA recipients, who would otherwise have [...]
