Does the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) preempt New York’s use of federal campaign finance violations to enhance Donald Trump’s criminal penalties for falsifying his New York business records? Professor Elizabeth Price Foley (Florida International University) and conservative media commentator David Rivkin argued in the Wall Street Journal last week that it does, since FECA [...]
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to pay a daily fine of R$5 million ($900,000 USD) on Thursday following the platform’s failure to comply with the court’s order to suspend its operation in Brazil. The decision comes after Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL) reported an update to X’s application that provided [...]
Failed Fijian coup leader George Speight and six others were released from prison on Thursday after being granted a pardon by President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere, who acted on the advice of Fiji’s Mercy Commission. The president approved Speight’s release after the Mercy Commission recommended a pardon based on his behavior in prison and the length [...]
Two people were killed during a French police operation in New Caledonia on Thursday, according to French media. The police operation took place amid unrest between French loyalists and indigenous Kanak people in the territory. French forces took to the streets of San Louis in Le Mont-Dore, New Caledonia, and targeted people wanted for armed [...]
US lawmakers urged the Biden administration in a hearing on Wednesday to intensify efforts to secure the release of Americans allegedly unjustly detained in China. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), co-chairs of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), alongside representatives Zach Nunn (R-IA) and Michelle Steel (R-CA), emphasized the need to [...]
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) said in a report on Thursday that Russian armed forces’ attacks on energy facilities in Ukraine had devastating effects on the country’s infrastructure and possibly violated international humanitarian law. The UN-mandated mission focused its report on nine waves of attacks on Ukraine’s electric power system that [...]
The US District Court for the District of Alaska indicted Alaska resident Panos Anastasiou on Wednesday over allegations of sending deadly threats to US Supreme Court justices and their relatives. The indictment alleged that Anastasiou sent threats to Supreme Court justices from January 4, 2024, to July 11, 2024, by internet messages through the court’s publicly [...]
Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Israel to implement a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution demanding the end to its occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The resolution, adopted earlier by a substantial majority, calls for Israel to withdraw its military forces, cease settlement activity, and dismantle illegal settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and [...]
Swedish prosecutors indicted a 52-year-old woman for crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes over accusations of enslaving Yazidi women in Syria between August 2014 and December 2016. The defendant, Lina Ishaq, has denied the charges. The indictment comes 10 years after the so-called Islamic State (IS) attacked the Yazidi people, which the UN says [...]
Teachers from across Belarus have been arrested or summoned for interrogation by the country’s State Security Committee (KGB-RB) for joining an educational project, the local Viasna Human Rights Centre reported on Wednesday. The project, named “Adukavanka,” is aimed at improving the skills of education workers in Belarus. The project offers educators express courses, lesson builders, [...]
