A senior UN aid official called Friday for inclusive governance, the rule of law, and robust humanitarian measures to steer Syria toward a stable transition. Adam Abdelmoula, the UN resident humanitarian coordinator in Syria, emphasized the critical need for unity, humanitarian assistance, and reconstruction in the wake of the Assad regime’s fall. He urged the [...]

A Georgia state judge on Friday shut down an effort by former Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro to undo his guilty plea in the state’s election interference case involving President-elect Donald Trump and his allies. Judge Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court denied Chesebro’s motion on multiple grounds, calling it “rocedurally defective in more [...]

A newly revised North Carolina juvenile justice law will take effect Sunday, aiming to address gaps in handling serious offenses by minors committed in the southern US state. Amidst increased reports of teenage crime in the Piedmont Triad, including armed robberies and shootings into occupied homes, local law enforcement officials were prompted to reconsider the [...]

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator Deanne Criswell and former FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington, alleging civil rights violations in the federal agency’s response to hurricanes Helene and Milton. The back-to-back storms, which hit Florida in late September and early October, have now sparked a [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a report on Thursday that the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta routinely violates the constitutional rights of individuals in its custody. The DOJ’s report revealed the findings of a civil rights investigation launched in July 2023, uncovering pervasive abuses at the facility that included failures to protect [...]

The US Defense Department (DoD) announced on Saturday that it will appeal a military judge’s decision affirming the validity of plea deals for Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, and two of his co-defendants. This ruling, issued on Wednesday, effectively overturns Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s prior directive to discard the plea [...]

A US federal judge struck down Illinois’ Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA) on Friday, ruling it unconstitutional under the Second Amendment of the US Constitution. US District Judge Stephen McGlynn ruled that PICA infringes on an individual’s Second Amendment rights, citing recent US Supreme Court interpretations of the Second Amendment. He stated: “The Government may [...]

Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) unveiled a new guide for its corruption notification channel on Thursday, giving whistleblowers a clear path to report misconduct. This follows the recent completion of payments for Ukraine’s first two whistleblower award cases, which were finalized in 2023 but only recently saw payouts. Ukraine implemented the whistleblower award [...]

A Georgia judge dismissed a Republican-led lawsuit on Saturday aimed at stopping counties from opening election offices over the weekend and letting voters hand in their mail ballots in person. The lawsuit specifically targeted Fulton County — a Democratic hub covering most of Atlanta and representing 11% of the state’s electorate. However, other large counties [...]

North Korea announced on Friday that sending troops to support Russia in the war in Ukraine would align with international law, though it held back from confirming any actual deployments. The statement from North Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister Kim Jong Gyu to the state news agency statement comes in the wake of claims that Ukraine, [...]