Five members of a New Mexico compound were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on possession of firearms and conspiracy charges. The indictment alleges that the defendants created a training camp in their Amalia, New Mexico, compound to prepare minors for planned violent attacks on public institutions. The defendants moved from Georgia to New [...]

South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit signed a peace deal with rebel groups on Wednesday to bring an end to a seven-year-long civil war in the country which killed at least 50,000 people and made 2 million more homeless. Mediated by neighboring Sudan, the deal includes power-sharing structures, a reformed banking and military structure, and [...]

Lise Grande , head UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, said Thursday that the “situation has deteriorated dramatically in the past few days,” and “hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance,” in the port city of Hodeida. Hodeida is Yemen’s principal port on the Red Sea and the chief entry point for food imports. [...]

Lawmakers in Chile on Wednesday passed  a gender identity law that allows transgender people over 14 to legally change their name and sex markers on official documents. The law passed in a 95-46 vote after five years of discussion. As a result, transgender people in Chile who are over the age of 14 can change [...]

The EU Parliament  approved a controversial new copyright directive  on Wednesday that could force sites like Google and Facebook to install filters to prevent copyrighted material from being uploaded. The final vote was 438 in favor and 226 against. The main controversy stems from Articles 11 and 13. Article 11 has allowed authors to have their [...]

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. dropped  3,042 marijuana charges on Tuesday, saying it is “one small step toward addressing the decades of racial disparities behind the enforcement of marijuana in New York City.” The charges dropped were misdemeanor possession and smoking charges dating back to as early as 1978. Charges that showed chances of “sale [...]

EU lawmakers voted on Wednesday in favor of initiating measures against the Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban for allegedly breaching the values upon which the EU was founded. The measure allows Article 7 sanctions, under the Treaty of Lisbon , to be brought against Hungary, which could result in the country’s expulsion from the EU. The resolution was passed by [...]

A federal judge in California on Tuesday blocked  the state from enforcing a law that bans gun vendors from displaying imagery and/or advertisements depicting or resembling guns. Plaintiffs consisted of firearm vendors who were issued citations by law enforcement for displaying images, signs and advertisements of guns outside their establishments. The store owners filed suit [...]

The annual report of UN Secretary-General António Guterres to the UN Human Rights Council listed 38 countries, including China and Russia, that have carried out harsh reprisals and intimidation tactics against individuals who cooperated with the UN on human rights issues. Contained in the report are details of cases that include allegations of “killing, torture [...]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday announced major policy updates and enforcement efforts on electronic cigarettes such as JUUL and their distribution and sale to teens—what the statement called the “largest coordinated enforcement effort in the FDA’s history.” The FDA announced the issuing of more than 1300 warning letters and civil penalties/fines [...]