The Israeli Cabinet unanimously approved a peace agreement with the United Arab Emirates on Monday—the first peace agreement that Israel has signed in more than 25 years. Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained that the agreement will open the door to trade between Israel and its neighbors, leading to a major geopolitical and economic turning [...]
Governor Malam Nasir Ahmad el-Rufa’i of Nigeria’s Kaduna state passed a law on Tuesday allowing castration of rapists convicted of raping children under the age of 18, and the death penalty for child sexual abusers where the child victim was under the age of 14. The law applies to both male and female perpetrators, requiring [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Sunday upheld the ban on detaining migrant children in hotel rooms before expelling them under rules adopted during COVID-19. Since March, border agents have placed 577 unaccompanied children in hotel rooms before deporting the children. The children were denied a chance for asylum or other [...]
The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene over whether undocumented immigrants can be excluded when allocating congressional seats based on the 2020 census. Recently, multiple states sued the Trump administration for discounting undocumented immigrants on the census with an appeals court blocking the federal government from carrying out this directive. [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday ruled that the Trump administration can end aid protections for more than 300,000 immigrants from Haiti, Sudan, Nicaragua and El Salvador. The aid protections, called Temporary Protected Status (TPS), allowed people who would face extreme hardship if forced to return to countries plagued by [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled Monday that Governor Tom Wolf’s closing of “non-life-sustaining” businesses and restrictions on gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic were unconstitutional. Butler, Greene, Fayette and Washington counties sued the governor, claiming the shutdown orders were unconstitutional. The court held that “(1) the congregate [...]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) awarded $2.5 million Tuesday to two external analysts who exposed Orthofix Medical for financial wrongdoing. Normally, under the SEC whistleblower program, internal whistleblowers get rewarded for reporting their company’s fraudulent practices. However, in this case, external analysts were rewarded under the same whistleblower program for using public information [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday that a Texas District Attorney did not violate the First Amendment when he fired his crime victim unit coordinator because of political differences. The court held that District Attorney Omar Escobar, Jr. was justified in his actions because political affiliation is an appropriate requirement [...]
Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed an anti-BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) bill into law on Monday, preventing the state government from contracting with companies that boycott Israel. The bill, titled the “Anti-Discrimination Against Israel Act,” applies to companies that have at least 10 employees and make more than $100,000 annually. Missouri is the thirty-second state [...]
The Mississippi state legislature voted to change its flag on Sunday, removing the Confederate emblem from its state flag. The bill passed by a 91-23 House vote and a 37-14 Senate vote. “I would guess a lot of you don’t even see that flag in the corner right there,” said Mississippi state Representative Ed Blackmon [...]
