The Senate trial of President Donald Trump came to a close Wednesday with an acquittal on both articles of impeachment. The Senate fell short of the necessary two-thirds vote required to convict and remove Trump from office, with the final vote being 48-52 on abuse of power and 47-53 on obstruction. The change in votes [...]
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced that his office would be launching a new initiative to pardon people who have prosecuted in California for being gay. Inspired by a call to posthumously pardon Bayard Rustin, a humanitarian and civil rights leader who was convicted of a misdemeanor vagrancy offense for consensual adult homosexual activity, [...]
The District Court of The Hague ruled Wednesday that Netherland’s System Risk Indication (SyRI) violates the European Convention on Human rights. SyRI had been developed to allow government authorities to share information about welfare recipients to curb abuse. The government outsourced the program to a private organization, “The Intelligence Agency.” The organization uses an algorithm [...]
Thirty Afghan media outlets called on the government in a protest letter on Tuesday to stop “severe limitations in access to information.” They also called on the international community as well as media support organizations to safeguard the flow of government-related information, press freedom and democracy. The media outlets claim that the worst institutions to provide [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed on Monday that Congress abrogated state sovereign immunity in the Voting Rights Act (VRA). The original complaint filed by the Alabama NAACP alleged that Alabama’s “at-large election method for the Supreme Court, Court of Criminal Appeals and Court of Civil Appeals Section 2 of the Voting [...]
A shareholder of renewable energy company Pattern Energy sued the company and its directors and officers on Monday for selling shares too cheaply to a Canadian pension fund. Pattern Energy is a publicly-traded company that has a portfolio of renewable energy projects, and it has a 29 percent stake in a privately-held renewable energy development company [...]
The Virginia Senate unanimously approved a bill Tuesday that would prevent surrogates from either being required to or prohibited from aborting multiples in their surrogacy contracts. The bill passed through the House of Delegates in January, and the Virginia Senate proposed an amendment that will see it sent back to the House for final approval. [...]
The Chinese telecom Huawei on Monday urged the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to finalize its designation of the company as a national security threat. The FCC voted unanimously in November to designate Huawei, as well as ZTE Corp, national security risks because of their ties to the Chinese government and its military, as [...]
The Iran Judiciary Spokesperson on Tuesday announced Iran’s plans to execute an alleged CIA spy. The spokesperson identified the spy as Amir Rahimpour, an Iranian national. Iran alleges that Rahimpour “received big sums of money as his wage and tried to provide the US intelligence service with nuclear information.” The spokesperson reported that the Supreme [...]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a hearing on Tuesday about testing methods for finding asbestos in talc and cosmetic products containing talc. This is the first hearing about asbestos in talc since 1971. The meeting was convened to discuss methods and criteria for testing for asbestos. The meeting focused on the recommendations [...]
