Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explained the government’s reasoning for relaxing Canadian immigration law after the pandemic, and for the recent restrictions imposed, in a YouTube video released Sunday. Trudeau admitted that the federal government could have taken action earlier when companies and universities exploited the policy. Within the video, Trudeau explained how Canada first [...]

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a new rule that imposes fines on the oil and gas industry for excessive methane emissions. The rule aims to reduce methane emissions by an estimated 1.2 million metric tons through 2035. The EPA will also enact new and stringent regulatory requirements for oil and gas facilities releasing [...]

Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nausėda criticized the leading Social Democratic Party party’s decision to enter into a coalition agreement with Nemunas Dawn, a nationalist and populist political party whose leader has been accused of extreme antisemitism. Speaking to local media, Nausėda raised concerns about the effect that the antisemitic remarks of Nemunas Dawn’s leader, Remigijus Žemaitaitis, [...]

Justice Federico of the US Tenth Circuit of Appeal overturned a lower-court injunction on Tuesday against a Colorado law that raises the minimum age for purchasing a gun from 18 to 21, concluding that the restriction aligns with common-law standards for possible limitations to the Second Amendment. The case was initiated by the Second Amendment [...]

Iran executed dual Iranian-German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd on Monday. German Foreign Minister Annalaena Barbock stated: “I condemn the murder of Jamshid Sharmahd by the Iranian regime in the strongest possible terms. Jamshid Sharmahd was abducted to Iran from Dubai, held for years without a fair trial, and has now been killed.” Sharmahd was first arrested [...]

A US federal court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee (RNC) alleging the Michigan state government failed to properly clear its voting records in accordance with federal voting registration laws. Under the National Voter Registry Act, specifically 52 U.S.C. § 20507, states are required to make “reasonable” efforts to clear voter [...]

Takayoshi Tsuda, the Chief of Police of Shizuoka Prefecture, publicly apologized to Iwao Hakamata on live TV on Monday for fabricating evidence and coercing him during a murder investigation. This misconduct led to Hakamata’s wrongful arrest and 48 years on death row. Speaking to Hakamata and his family, local media reports Chief Tsuda as stating: [...]

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed the implementation of “return hubs” in third countries to combat irregular migration, in a letter to Commission members on Thursday. In the letter, she emphasizes the Italy-Albania protocol as an example of how the hubs may work in practice. The protocol is a migration [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a stay barring constitutional challenges against a controversial Texas law criminalizing “vote-harvesting” until after the November 5 presidential election. The court suspended an injunction from the lower court, allowing the ballot harvesting provision in Senate Bill 1 (SB-1) to remain in effect for the presidential [...]

Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly announced on Monday the expulsion of six Indian consular officials and diplomats, following a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigation into crimes allegedly connected to the Indian government. Pursuant to the results of their investigation, the RCMP found “Indian diplomats and consular officials based in Canada leveraged their [...]