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A US federal judge prohibited the practice of separating migrant children from their families for eight years on Friday following a settlement that will allow migrant children and their families, who were separated at the US-Mexico border, to be reunited. The “Mrs. L” deal, the result of a lawsuit against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement [...]

Federal prosecutors asked the US Supreme Court on Monday to intervene in the criminal case against former President Donald Trump, which alleges that the former president engaged in election interference during the 2020 US presidential election. Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the court to take up an appeal currently pending before the US Court of [...]

The Texas Supreme Court placed an administrative stay on Friday on a lower court’s temporary restraining order (TRO) that barred the enforcement of the state’s strict abortion bans on a pregnant woman whose fetus was recently diagnosed with a fatal condition. The court placed an administrative stay on the TRO “pending further review” and “without [...]

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce opened a formal investigation on Thursday into three of the US’s top universities’ and their responses to increasing antisemitism on campuses. The presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology previously appeared before a congressional committee for a hearing on December [...]

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave testimony to the COVID-19 Inquiry, a body examining the UK’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, on Wednesday and Thursday. During the hearing, he acknowledged that his government “may have made mistakes” in their handling of the pandemic and said he was “deeply sorry for the pain and suffering” [...]

A Texas judge granted on Thursday a temporary restraining order (TRO) barring the enforcement of the state’s strict abortion bans on a pregnant woman whose fetus was recently diagnosed with a fatal condition. In effect, the judge’s order allows the plaintiff to access abortion care in Texas at a point in her pregnancy when she [...]

Following an investigation, the human rights organization Amnesty International found that the Israeli military used US-made Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) to commit war crimes in Gaza on Tuesday. Amnesty International alleges that it found “distinctive fragments of the munition in the rubble of destroyed homes in central Gaza.” The organization also asserts that the [...]

Human rights groups Oxfam Novib, PAX, and The Rights Forum are seeking to halt the Dutch government‘s export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel in a hearing that began Monday. During summary proceedings in front of the Hague District Court , they argued that such exports make the Netherlands complicit in potential war crimes, [...]

The UK Metropolitan Police stated Tuesday they arrested nine people for displaying a pro-Palestinian banner outside a house in London. This is the most recent police action since then Home Secretary Suella Braverman ordered on October 10 police to increase their scrutiny on displays of Palestinian support amidst the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. In a post [...]

UK Home Secretary James Cleverly signed an asylum treaty Tuesday with Rwanda, in an attempt to overcome a recent ruling by the UK Supreme Court which blocked the government’s policy to send asylum seekers to the African nation. At a press conference, Cleverly insisted that “this treaty addresses all of the issues of their lordships [...]