The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are citizens under the 14th Amendment, holding unconstitutional an executive order President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office in January 2025 that sought to deny them that status. In Trump v. [...]

In a case that drew national attention and a half dozen emergency amicus briefs from around the country, the Alaska Supreme Court yesterday summarily affirmed an Alaska state trial court’s ruling that the state’s director of the Division of Elections, Carol Beecher, wrongly removed a senatorial candidate, Dan J. Sullivan, from the ballot. Beecher contended [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) stared on Monday that over the past years Beijing has restructured Hong Kong’s governance in a way that reduces accountability and tightens social control. A “draconian” national security regime is in place that answers to the Chinese Communist Party leadership rather than Hong Kong’s people. Elaine Pearson, Asia director at HRW, [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear President Donald Trump’s appeal of a $5 million judgment finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, ending his effort to overturn the 2023 verdict. The court denied certiorari in Trump v. Carroll in a brief and unexplained order, which is typical [...]

Human Rights Watch on Monday criticized insurgent armed groups, the Malian armed forces and allied militias, and Russian mercenaries, which have all committed “serious abuses of human rights against civilians” amid an insurgency fueled by long-standing ethnic tensions in the country. Commenting on the large scale of atrocities committed against civilians in Mali, senior Sahel [...]

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Monday that his government was introducing legislation to strengthen the country’s ban on social media accounts for youth under the age of 16. Albanese praised the ban’s success, stating that it has led to the deletion of over five million social media accounts for youth under 16. He [...]

The US Supreme Court said on Monday that Lisa Cook can remain in her position as governor for the Federal Reserve while she contests allegations of mortgage fraud made by President Donald Trump, who fired Cook last August. Writing for the majority in today’s ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts rejected all four of the Trump [...]

Wearable AI cameras like Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are outpacing the privacy and consent laws meant to protect people from covert recording. And the resulting footage is increasingly feeding the non-consensual intimate imagery market. The gap is widening fastest for women and girls, whose images are captured in public, uploaded without consent, and recycled into [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that federal law does not bar states from counting absentee ballots that arrive after election day, so long as they are postmarked by that date. The 5-4 decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee reversed a US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruling that had struck [...]

When the internet went dark and the world outside narrowed to the walls of a single room, AmirAli Maleki kept writing. With reliable connectivity gone, the notes application on his phone became his means of defiance. Whenever everyday life pressed in on him, whether through a conversation or an image evoking fear or solidarity, he [...]