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US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staff entered the offices of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Monday with the help of DC police after the former acting president, George Moose, refused to vacate the premises, according to US media. National Defense University president Peter Garvin, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of [...]

UN human rights expert Margaret Satterthwaite condemned on Friday the purges of US Department of Justice officials, including individuals who worked on or assisted with criminal investigations of President Donald Trump, and individuals involved in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Examples of actions that Satterthwaite denounced included reassignments, transfers, or dismissals of lawyers involved [...]

On Friday, March 7, just ahead of the Jewish Sabbath, a South Carolina firing squad will shoot to death my longtime pen pal and friend Brad Sigmon. This will mark the first American firing squad execution to take place in 15 years. Accordingly, it will be the first since I co-founded the 3,800+-member-strong L’chaim! Jews [...]

US President Trump directed the Attorney General and all other relevant heads of executive departments and agencies on Tuesday to strip security clearances from lawyers at a prominent Washington DC law firm aiding former special counsel Jack Smith, and to end any federal government work the firm may have. The move intensifies his bid to [...]

Today I am finally free. They may have imprisoned me, but they never took my spirit. –Leonard Peltier, Feb. 18, 2025 Native American activist Leonard Peltier, one of the longest-serving federal prisoners in US history, was released to home confinement on Tuesday after spending nearly five decades behind bars. His imprisonment stems from a controversial [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it will no longer defend the independent status of three key consumer and worker protection agencies. The announcement came in a letter by Acting Solicitor General Sarah M. Harris and addressed to Sen. Dick Durbin (III.). The agencies affected are the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), [...]

Two groups of FBI employees sued (see here and here) the Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to protect agents who were involved in the investigation of persons suspected of being involved in the attack on the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, and of the unlawful removal of classified documents by Donald Trump to [...]

The US Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general. The Senate Judiciary Committee had advanced Bondi’s nomination to the full Senate vote last Wednesday. Bondi, a Florida native, spent 18 years as a prosecutor and became the first female attorney general in Florida in 2011. She chairs the Center for Litigation and co-chairs the [...]

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday declared the Supreme Court decision in the matter of trying armed civilians in a military court martial to be “wrong,” stating that the method reinforces the civilian judicial system in defending the lives of people against criminals armed with guns. In the decision, the court declared trials of civilians [...]

Before US President Donald J. Trump returned to the Oval Office and began systematically attacking initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across US institutions, Alabama passed SB 129, a law aimed at stifling a broad swath of DEI-related initiatives at public universities. Now, educators and students are challenging the controversial state law in [...]