A judge in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida Monday ruled that the Biden Administration’s public transit mask mandate is “unlawful,” overturning the initiative to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle “declare unlawful and vacate the Mask Mandate.” Judge Mizelle further stated, “the Mandate exceeded the CDC’s statutory [...]

A Pakistan anti-terrorism court (ATC) Monday sentenced six people to death and nine people to life in prison for the lynching of Priyantha Kumara, according to reports from local news outlets. In a press conference, Punjab Prosecution Department Secretary Nadeem Sarwar also said Judge Natasha Nasim sentenced 72 people to two years in jail, sentenced [...]

A bill that would have given the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) at least 54 percent of Mexico’s electricity market failed in the nation’s Congress of the Union, according to Mexican news sources El Universal. The defeat came Sunday after Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador spent months championing the bill. Lopez Obrador said the [...]

Paramount Global and former chairman-CEO Leslie Moonves Friday settled with CBS Corporation shareholders and agreed to pay $14.75 million in a class action case related to sexual misconduct claims against #MeToo movement comments by Moonves. CBS shareholders initiated the class action in 2018 regarding: aterially false and misleading statements and/or omissions regarding the Company’s policies [...]

The Swedish National Police Monday issued a statement about unrest during which officers shot three civilians. On Sunday, police documented riots of 200 to 250 people in the Skäggetorp district of Linköping and the Navestad district of Norrköping. Participants reportedly threw stones and Molotov cocktails at police and police vehicles. At about 3 PM and [...]

UN experts warned the Australian government to take action to rescue 46 Australian citizens, including 30 children, from camps in north-eastern Syria. In a letter released Sunday, UN experts described how the conditions in the camps constitute violations of human rights and meet the standard for torture. The 46 Australian citizens are in the Al-Hol [...]

Boris Johnson is the first UK Prime Minister to be fined for breaking the law and has thrust the country toward a constitutional crisis, according to a leading constitutional expert. Johnson was fined on April 12 for violating UK COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. In March 2020 the UK imposed a national lockdown in response to the COVID-19 [...]

A shooting at an Airbnb party on Pittsburgh’s North Side early Sunday resulted in 10 gunshot victims. Local hospitals pronounced two juvenile victims dead as a result of the shooting. Shots were first fired around 2:30 AM during a large party with up to 200 people in attendance, including many individuals under 18. ShotSpotter, a [...]

A Russian court has registered administrative cases against Google and Wikipedia and threatened to impose hefty fines, according to Interfax News Agency. Wikimedia Foundation Inc. and Google could be fined for refusing to remove inaccurate information about the special military operation in Ukraine, as well as for encouraging extremism against Russian citizens. Roskomnadzor, Russia’s internet [...]

A Taiwanese activist returned home Friday after serving a five-year jail sentence in China for “subversion of state power.” Lee Ming-che disappeared in March 2017. A week after his disappearance, he was found in the custody of the Chinese government. He had been arrested and charged for subversion of state power. During trial, Lee admitted [...]