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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Sunday took office as the President of Brazil for the third term since 2010 alongside Vice President Geraldo Alckmin.  In his inaugural speech, Lula spoke of hope and reconstruction in Brazil. He centered his speech on rebuilding Brazil by saving people from hunger and poverty. He criticized recent governments’ “devastation” [...]

President Biden Friday pardoned five people convicted of drug- or alcohol-related offenses and one woman who murdered her allegedly abusive husband. All who were pardoned had completed their sentences, and many of them were served decades ago. Those pardoned have built careers and been personally involved with community service since serving their sentences. Biden pardoned [...]

David Wayne DePape, the man accused of breaking into the San Francisco home of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulting her 82-year-old husband Paul, Wednesday pleaded not guilty to six state criminal charges and denied all the allegations. David DePape is charged with attempted murder, first-degree residential burglary, elder abuse, assault with [...]

President Biden Tuesday signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law, granting federal protections to interracial and same-sex marriages. The landmark legislation passed the US Senate in November and the House of Representatives last week with strong bipartisan support. President Biden stated, “Today is a good day… a day America takes a vital step towards [...]

Sharareh Abdolhoseinzadeh is a PhD in Political Sociology and a political researcher in Tehran.  Saturday was International Human Rights Day, but the situation in Iran is extremely anti-human. Serious decisions and executions of youths arrested in protests have started, and thousands of detainees live in limbo. Iran is sad. Everyone is shocked. People came to [...]

Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told the BBC on Sunday that Libyan national Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi is in US custody. Mas’ud was allegedly involved in making the bomb that destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988. A spokesperson said the Crown Office has [...]

The US House of Representatives Thursday issued final approval to the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill to federally recognize same-sex marriages, in a vote of 258 to 169. The bill now goes to President Joe Biden for approval. The Respect for Marriage Act formally repeals the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 bill which [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday heard oral arguments in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. The Court will decide whether Colorado’s Antidiscrimination Act compels an artist to speak or stay silent and whether the law violates the First Amendment. Lorie Smith, the owner of 303 Creative, wishes to design wedding websites but would like to post [...]

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Here, one of our correspondents who must remain anonymous comments on the repression of people’s daily lives, including even their available [...]

The German Bundestag Wednesday voted to formally recognize the Holodomor, a man-made famine that decimated Ukraine in 1932 and 1933, as a genocide. According to the declaration, Soviet authorities demanded inflated quantities of grain from Ukrainian farmers and punished those who fell short with additional demands. Affected regions were cut off from the rest of [...]