The Paris Court of Appeals fined the Vice President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodorin Obiang, $32.9 million on Monday. Obiang, the son of the long sitting President of the country, was found guilty back in 2017 but his three-year jail sentence and $32.9 million fine were suspended after a long investigation and contentions over what property [...]

At a UN press briefing on Tuesday, Jens Laerke of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated that some 700,000 people have been displaced in Syria over the last 10 weeks. The fast-growing number of fleeing people is a result of the Syrian government pushing north toward Turkey in an attempt to [...]

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 [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Monday upheld a preliminary injunction preventing the enforcement of an Arkansas campaign-finance law, which the appellee claimed violated her First Amendment rights. Peggy Jones filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and contended that Ark. Code § 7-6-203(e) [...]

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan titled “Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People” on Tuesday. The plan notes the long history of conflict between the two states, claiming that it has “grown old the arguments have become [...]

US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) have deported Shahab Dehghani, an Iranian Student at Northeastern, after Federal Judge Allison Burroughs issued a 48-hour emergency stay when the student was detained at Boston Logan Airport on Sunday. While Dehghani was detained, attorneys filed an emergency suit to prevent his deportation. The suit claims that the student [...]

The US Senate gathered on Tuesday afternoon and began the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Before the trial began, House impeachment managers sent a letter to the White House expressing concern over Pat Cipollone serving as an advocate-witness for Trump. After the letter was sent, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) held a [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two more cases on Tuesday afternoon. In Kelley v. United States, Bridgette Kelly and William Baroni appealed their convictions for violating federal property-fraud laws. Kelly, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s deputy chief of staff, and Baroni, a New York and New Jersey Port Authority official, were [...]

IKEA has settled a suit with the family of a child who was killed under the weight of a MALM dresser in 2017 for $46 million. The suit filed by Joleen and Craig Dudek alleged that the company had knowledge of at least 113 tip-over incidents, but: Despite this knowledge, intentionally, willfully, wantonly and recklessly [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday vacated the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board‘s permit to Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) for the construction of a compressor station in rural Union Hill, Virginia. The petition, submitted by Friends of Buckingham and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, claimed that the board erred in granting [...]