The US Supreme Court sided with a Christian faith-based crisis pregnancy center in New Jersey on Wednesday. The pregnancy center, First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, was attempting to curb a state investigation into its activities. All Supreme Court justices unanimously reversed a lower court’s decision, ruling in favor of First Choice in a federal lawsuit. [...]
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a proposed class action accusing the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) of conspiring with law schools to fix application fees and monopolize the admissions process, but gave the plaintiff until May 12 to file an amended complaint. US District Judge John Murphy of the US District Court for the [...]
The Supreme Court of British Columbia upheld on Wednesday the constitutionality of a new law that establishes a single regulatory body for lawyers, notaries, and paralegals. Chief Justice Ronald Skolrood found that the law would not erode the independence of the legal profession. Chief Justice Skolrood affirmed that the independence of the legal profession is [...]
The European Parliament on Tuesday adopted a resolution urging the European Commission to establish a consent-based definition of rape. The need for a new definition that does not define rape on the conditions of the use of force, or the word “No,” aims to have a victim-centred approach to sexual assault and the trauma responses [...]
A grand jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has indicted 10 current and former Mexican officials for importing large amounts of drugs into the US, along with related offenses. The officials include the current governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, and a Sinaloa state deputy attorney general, a former [...]
The United States has been at war with Iran for eight weeks. Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.–Israeli campaign launched on February 28, 2026, has killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, struck targets across twenty-four provinces, and left at least 1,443 Iranian civilians dead—including 217 children. Among the documented strikes: a Tomahawk missile that hit Shajareh Tayyebeh [...]
UN rights experts urged the Court in Algiers Tuesday to stop the trial of Mohamed Tadjadit, noting that the reclassified charges he now faces are punishable by death. A poet and human rights defender, Tadjadit is associated with the Hirak movement, which first arose in 2019 in opposition to then-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and has since [...]
A US soldier pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of using classified intelligence on the raid and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolàs Maduro to win $400,000 on prediction market betting site Polymarket. Gannon Ken Van Dyke is a 38-year-old US Special Forces soldier who was involved in the planning and execution of Maduro’s capture. [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday delivered an order on reparations for the victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz (Al Hassan) in Timbuktu between April 2, 2012, and January 29, 2013. Presiding Judge Kimberly Prost, in ICC’s Trial Chamber X, delivered the Reparations Order in [...]
The European Parliament on Tuesday approved a landmark bill creating protections for cats and dogs. The bill, first proposed in December 2023, establishes regulations for “EU standards for the breeding, housing, traceability, import and handling of cats and dogs.” It was adopted on Tuesday with 558 votes in favor, 35 against, and with 52 abstentions. The bill [...]
