A veterans advocacy group brought a federal lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Thursday related to unofficial or undisclosed meetings held at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort by a group focused on crafting Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) policy. The complaint alleges that Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter, attorney Marck [...]

A federal court on Wednesday ruled  that a lawsuit challenging Ohio’s congressional map as unconstitutional can move forward. The lawsuit was filed  in May by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of five civic engagement groups and voters from each congressional district in the state. The plaintiffs allege that Ohio’s congressional map violates the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday upheld a district court’s decision to dismiss a group of University of Texas at Austin professors’ challenge to a Texas law permitting the concealed carry of handguns on campuses as well as a University-specific policy that prohibited professors from banning weapons in their classrooms. [...]

Amnesty International said Thursday that the Honorary Chair of Amnesty International Turkey, Taner Kilic, has been released after 14 months in prison. Amnesty’s Secretary General Kumi Naidoo said that Kilic was released and has returned to his family. Naidoo also called for the release of other human rights advocates whom Naidoo alleges are being detained on [...]

Polish President Andrzej Duda on Thursday vetoed a European Parliament reform  that would increase the mandatory threshold of the vote needed to become a party in the European Parliament for the 2024 European Parliament election. Under the proposed reform countries with 26 representatives would require parties to win at least 5 percent of the national vote in [...]

The Center for Biological Diversity  filed  a lawsuit on Thursday against the National Marine Fisheries Service that seeks to protect the waters where Southern Resident killer whales live. Previously, the Center for Biological Diversity has petitioned for the protection of these waters, and the Fisheries Service has agreed that this was necessary. However, the Fisheries [...]

A US District Judge in Montana ruled Wednesday that the US State Department must conduct a more thorough environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline project, ordering the $8 billion project’s construction to come to an immediate halt. An environmental review was initially published for the pipeline’s original plans, which stretched from Canada through Nebraska. [...]

Malaysia’s parliament on Thursday repealed a controversial law that set fines for “fake news.” The law was introduced in April by the administration of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. The previous administration called snap elections in May shortly after passing the “fake news law” and was subsequently defeated. In the aftermath of the [...]

A Libyan appeals court on Wednesday sentenced  45 soldiers to death by firing squad for their involvement in murders that occurred during the 2011 uprising. The defendants were accused of opening fire  on a crowd of demonstrators calling for the end of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in the Abu Salim district of Tripoli, the nation’s capital. [...]

A judge for the King County Superior Court  in Washington on Tuesday dismissed  a lawsuit alleging that the state’s failure to protect people from climate change is unconstitutional. The lawsuit, brought by a group of youth activists, focuses on the harmful effects of natural gas and diesel fuels on the planet’s climate. They alleged the state’s [...]