President Donald Trump announced a 10% global tariff after the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision Friday ruling against his tariff imposition under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977. Trump called the Supreme Court’s decision “deeply disappointing” and said he was “ashamed” of some Supreme Court justices. He said the 10% global tariff will [...]

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday signed into law an amnesty measure that interim authorities say is intended to ease political tensions and accelerate the release of political prisoners. The law, titled the Amnesty Bill for Democratic Coexistence, authorizes a “general and full” amnesty for people prosecuted or convicted for political or related offences. [...]

UNICEF published a statement Thursday expressing deep concern with the detention of children in Iran amid ongoing public unrest. The statement, by UNICEF regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, Edouard Beigbeder, stresses several key issues. First, the number of child detainees, and conditions they face, have not been available. Secondly, Beigbeder detailed the [...]

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced Thursday that the province will hold a referendum on provincial immigration control and constitutional amendments in October 2026. The provincial referendum will ask Albertan voters nine questions. In terms of policy issues, voters will indicate their stances on increased provincial control over immigration to prioritize economic migration; limiting provincial social [...]

Paramilitary forces in Sudan unleashed “a wave of intense violence…shocking in its scale and brutality” during their final offensive to seize the city of El Fasher last October, according to the UN human rights office. That clinical phrasing barely conveys what actually happened: a city starved, surrounded, and then assaulted in a way that left [...]

The US Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision Friday on the legality of President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In a 6-3 decision, the Court held that the IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose tariffs. The IEEPA was enacted in 1977 to address significant [...]

Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday after the Seoul Central District Court found him guilty of leading an insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law on December 3, 2024. The court held that Yoon’s decision to declare martial law and deploy military and police forces against [...]

Four plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to block President Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot “Independence Arch” at Memorial Circle near Arlington National Cemetery. The plaintiffs, Vietnam War veterans Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes and Jon Gundersen, and retired architectural historian Calder Loth, are represented by the [...]

On February 12, the High Court of Kenya struck down Section 95(1)(b) of the Penal Code as unconstitutional. The Section made it a crime to “create a disturbance in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace,” meaning a person could be arrested for causing public commotion, shouting loudly, or behaving in a way police believed [...]

West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey filed suit against Apple on Thursday, arguing that the company turned a blind eye to iCloud encryption methods that facilitate mass transmission of child pornography. The suit focuses on Apple iCloud and its use of end-to-end encryption, which makes digital files inaccessible to law enforcement. iCloud, which backs up and [...]