A US federal judge in Nevada on Thursday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by FBI Director Kash Patel and his nonprofit foundation against a California blogger on July 25. Chief US District Judge Andrew P. Gordon of the District of Nevada granted blogger Jim Stewartson’s motion to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(2) [...]

A US federal judge on Tuesday ruled that a Houston, Texas, city program establishing racial goals for public contracts violates the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, striking down the policy in one of the first rulings to extend a Supreme Court landmark 2023 affirmative action holding beyond the context of college admissions. Houston’s Minority, Women, and [...]

Amnesty International urged authorities in Ecuador on Wednesday to implement a court ruling mandating the elimination of oil industry gas flares near populated areas in the Amazon and the provision of reparations to affected communities. The organization stated that while five years have passed since the ruling was issued, Ecuadorian authorities have failed to implement [...]

The UN Security Council lent Chapter VII authority to a body it cannot oversee when it adopted Resolution 2803 on Nov. 17, 2025, and the entity that emerged, the Board of Peace, is chaired for an indefinite term by Donald Trump personally rather than by the US government.   That raises a question international lawyers [...]

The Fort Mojave Indian Tribe and the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, along with the Native American Land Conservancy and National Parks Conservation Association, on Tuesday filed two separate lawsuits against the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Lisa Belenky, senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, spoke out against the Trump administration and this recent [...]

United Nations experts on Tuesday warned that 20 years after the Probo Koala toxic waste disaster in Côte d’Ivoire, thousands of victims still remain without justice, compensation, or effective remedies, highlighting what they call “environmental racism” and corporate impunity. In August 2006, the MV Probo Koala, chartered by commodity trading company Trafigura, offloaded toxic waste [...]

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on Wednesday charged Pavel Durov, founder and owner of the messaging app Telegram, with aiding terrorism, and subsequently placed him on an international wanted list. The FSB accused Telegram of failing to remove “numerous channels, chats and bots” allegedly used by Ukrainian intelligence agencies, terrorist and extremist organizations to “prepare [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday called on Shell plc to answer for decades of pollution in the Niger Delta following release of a report detailing how Shell oil pollution has damaged water, farmland, fisheries, health and livelihoods, while the company continued to profit and deny responsibility. The report, titled “Nigeria: Lifting the Lid: Internal documents expose [...]

British Labour MP Jess Asato on Tuesday filed a request for a court order barring xAI’s Grok chatbot from generating non-consensual sexualized images of her, arguing that the chatbot completely strips women of their personal autonomy by allowing users to digitally manipulate their images without consent. She first filed the claim in June alleging that [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday reported that Perenco, the sole oil producer in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is ausing in production methods that pose grave health and environmental threats to local communities. HRW Central Africa director Lewis Mudge stated: “The Congolese government transparency on oil pollution levels to meet its obligations to [...]