A US federal judge on Wednesday temporarily halted a plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to move 20 former federal death row prisoners to the country’s most restrictive correctional facility. This comes after the judge ruled that the prisoners would likely succeed in their claims of a violation of their Fifth Amendment due process rights. [...]

On the morning of February 11, Attorney General Pam Bondi faced a divided House Judiciary Committee, defending recent actions of the Department of Justice (DOJ) in a hearing primarily anchored in the Department’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R. 4405). Signed into law on November 19, 2025, following a near-unanimous 427-1 vote in the US House [...]

US President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said on Thursday that the administration has agreed to end the immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota. Homan held a news conference in Minneapolis where he stated: “I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude… A significant drawdown has already been underway this [...]

The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday sentenced former interior and safety minister Lee Sang-min to seven years in prison for his participation in the insurrection connected to former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief imposition of martial law on December 3, 2024. The Seoul Central District Court convicted Lee of playing a key role in [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized the Hungarian government on Thursday for using emergency powers to shut down court cases challenging a municipal tax, describing the move as a “dangerous precedent” that undermines the separation of executive and judicial powers. HRW stated in a press release that the government’s actions are a “severe blow to the [...]

The attorney of Marimar Martinez, shot by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents multiple times in Chicago in October, argued Wednesday that released evidence shows that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lied about information tied to investigations. Attorney Christopher Parente detailed instances in which he said DHS lied about circumstances of the shooting [...]

On Tuesday, a US federal grand jury in Washington DC decided not to indict six Democratic lawmakers on charges related to a video released in November in which lawmakers informed US service personnel of their right and obligation to disobey unlawful orders. “Today, it was a grand jury of anonymous American citizens who upheld the [...]

Puerto Rico’s governor on Thursday signed a law to recognize a fetus as a human being for the purposes of homicide law. The signed law was approved by the Senate of Puerto Rico as Senate Bill 923. It amends the definition of murder under the territory’s Penal Code. The definition now treats the killing of [...]

I feel lost, as if I have misplaced myself somewhere between silence and clamor. The world withdrew the moment the internet was cut off, not merely into disconnection but into a condition of being unwitnessed. What disappeared was not information, but circulation, visibility, and political presence. In that imposed solitude, an old question returned with [...]

The United Nations on Wednesday cautioned that the escalating aerial attacks in Sudan are killing children, striking UN facilities, and damaging schools. Two children were killed and 13 were injured in a drone strike on a mosque in Al-Rahad, North Kordofan state, where all the victims were students at the adjoining school. UN Spokesperson Stéphane [...]