A highly divided US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 231-198 to pass HR 38 , a bill loosening gun regulations and allowing individuals with concealed weapons carrying permits to legally travel between states. The votes fell largely along partisan lines with most Democrats voting against the bill and Republicans voting in favor, although six [...]

Oliver Schmidt, a former senior manager at Volkswagen AG was sentenced to 84 months in prison and a $400,000 fine on Wednesday after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to one count of violating the Clean Air Act. Issues arose in 2015 when Volkswagen released diesel operated vehicles [...]

A group of UN human rights experts called Thursday for the Bahraini government to respect and guarantee Shia leader and cleric, Isa Qassim, his human rights. In June 2016 Qassim was stripped of his Bahraini citizenship, putting him in danger of being deported from the country. In May Quassim was charged with money laundering crimes [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday morning. The first case involves award of attorney’s fees in civil rights cases. In Murphy v. Smith , Chris Murphy, a prisoner at an Illinois correctional facility, was badly beaten by two guards while he was handcuffed, crushing part of his eye socket, [...]

The number of people stopped from illegally crossing the border and the number of deportations are down, but immigration arrests are up from previous years, according to end-of-year statistics released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Tuesday. According to the report, 98percent of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehensions nationwide were at the [...]

The California Department of Insurance announced Wednesday that it has served Wells Fargo Bank and Wells Fargo Insurance with an accusation seeking to suspend or revoke the companies’ licenses due to improper insurance sales practices. An investigation was opened against Wells Fargo last year after Prudential employees accused Wells Fargo of signing up customers for [...]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Cyber Unit announced Monday that it has obtained an emergency asset freeze against Dominic Lacroix, Lacroix’s partner Sabrina Paradis-Royer, and his company, PlexCorps, after filing charges alleging that the company’s initial coin offering (ICO) for the cryptocurrency PlexCoins was a cyber scam. Lacroix, Paradis-Royer and PlexCorps have been [...]

Ethiopian officials have renewed their campaign of collecting intelligence against government critics abroad through the use of commercial spyware, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday. According to Citizen Lab , an independent research group in Toronto, Ethiopia, along with other countries such as the US and UK, are spying on government critics through a spyware [...]

Several immigration and civil rights organizations filed suit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) division for illegally withholding a memo recommending the closure of an Alabama immigration detention facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement . The complaint addresses a 2016 Freedom of [...]

The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday approved a resolution condemning systematic human rights violations against the Rohingya minority and the acts of violence committed by Myanmar security forces, calling instead for a peaceful resolution. Thirty-three member-states were in favor of the resolution while nine abstained. According to High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad [...]