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Former US President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the US House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. The committee, responsible for investigating the insurrection at the US Capitol, is joined in the lawsuit by the [...]

The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol announced Thursday that it would move to hold Trump ally and political strategist Stephen K. Bannon in criminal contempt after Bannon failed to attend a deposition in refusal to comply with a subpoena. Bannon was a key advisor to former president Trump advisor [...]

Judge Royce Lamberth from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held on Wednesday Wanda Patten, warden of the District of Columbia Jail, and Quincy Booth, director of the DC Department of Corrections, in civil contempt of court for failing to produce medical documents for Christopher Worrell, a member of far-right Proud [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 41, Genetic Information Privacy Act, into law on Wednesday, requiring direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies to provide information and obtain consumers’ express consent regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of genetic data. “At-home DNA tests have provided people with the ability to seek meaningful connections to long-lost family or their [...]

There has been a lot of discussion about crypto in the news recently. El Salvador made global headlines last month as the first nation to accept a crypto as legal tender, while other countries, like China, are banning them outright. In the United States, the state of crypto is much more in flux. In a [...]

A group of attorneys on Tuesday filed an ethics complaint against Jeffrey B. Clark, a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia, former Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), and former Acting Chief of the Department’s Civil Division. The group said [...]

“History is an illustrious war against death.” – José Ortega y Gasset, Man and Crisis (1958) Afghanistan and “Palestine”: Newly Emerging Linkages At first glance, there are no obvious connections between the Taliban victory over the United States in Afghanistan and Palestinian terrorism against Israel. Upon closer inspection, however, the recent Taliban triumph reflects more [...]

The US House of Representatives Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack sent subpoenas to four of Former President Trump’s closest advisors on Thursday. “The Committee is investigating the facts, circumstances, and causes of the January 6th attack and issues relating to the peaceful transfer of power, to identify and evaluate lessons learned and [...]

Seven US Capitol police officers (“the plaintiffs”) filed a complaint in federal court on Thursday against former president Donald Trump and one of his corporations, Stop the Steal LLC, domestic and international Proud Boys groups, and other far right extremist groups (“the defendants”) for allegedly causing injuries to more than 140 police officers on January 6. [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday published a report detailing the Bangladesh government’s crackdown on freedom of expression online by use of the country’s controversial Digital Security Act (DSA). The DSA was introduced in October 2018 and contains some wide-ranging provisions that enable the authorities to trample on the guarantee of freedom of speech and expression. Under [...]