Former Memphis police officer Emmitt Martin III pleaded guilty on Friday to three counts of US federal civil rights and conspiracy charges. An indictment issued in September of last year accused Martin of using excessive force against Tyre Nichols, an unarmed 29-year-old black man. On January 7, 2023, police stopped Nichols while in his vehicle [...]

The Canada Industrial Labour Relations Board (CIRB) Saturday ended unprecedented nationwide rail shutdowns by ordering a return to normal operations as of August 26. Both employers and union have stated they will comply with the unanimous decision, however, the union will seek an appeal to the Federal Court of Canada. The board heard arguments Friday [...]

US Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Kevin G. Ritz announced on Friday that a man was charged with making threats against President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama on social media. Ritz’s office said that Kyl Alton Hall made various threats on X, formerly known as Twitter, on [...]

Russia and Ukraine exchanged a total of 230 prisoners of war on Saturday, following an intermediation by the United Arab Emirates. The exchange happened on the 33rd commemoration of Ukraine’s Independence Day of Ukraine from the Soviet Union. The UAE Foreign Ministry noted that the recent exchange brings the total number of prisoners released through [...]

French police arrested a man suspected of attempting to set fire to a synagogue in the southern city of La Grande-Motte on Saturday, according to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. The suspect, whose identity has not been officially disclosed, was apprehended in Nîmes after a dramatic confrontation with law enforcement. Reports indicate that the individual, believed [...]

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld Maryland’s handgun licensing law requiring that gun owners first go through firearms training and pass a background check. There was disagreement on the reasoning, but only two members of the 16-judge en banc panel dissented that the state’s permit process is constitutional, despite the Supreme Court’s significant expansion [...]

A Turkish airstrike in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region killed two female journalists, Hero Baha’uddin and Golestan Tara, on Friday. Both journalists worked for a local Kurdish media company and were traveling near the village of Teperash in Sulaimaniyah province when the strike hit, according to reports from local media. The Kurdish Regional Government’s (KRG) counter-terrorism [...]

The Greek Coast Guard confirmed on Friday that they opened fire on a boat of Turkish migrants and killed one man, according to local media sources. The migrants were allegedly agitating the coast guard by rocking the latter’s boat, which prompted the crew to fire “warning shots” before shooting at the migrants. In their statement, [...]

An Australian judge on Friday awarded a transgender woman $10,000 for her claim of gender discrimination, finding she had been indirectly discriminated against by a women-only social media app. Justice Bromwich rejected the woman’s claim of direct discrimination but found her claim of indirect discrimination on the basis of gender successful since the app imposed [...]

The Attorney General of Texas and a coalition of 14 other Republican-led states filed a lawsuit on Friday against the Department of Homeland Security and various officials of the Biden administration regarding recently introduced changes to immigration policy. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that “under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the federal government is actively [...]