California became the fifth state in the US to ban universities from admitting students based on family connections or donations after Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he had signed AB 1780 into law. The law, proposed by Democratic state assemblyman Phil Ting, would prevent independent institutions of higher education from giving preferential consideration for legacies [...]
Canada’s federal government announced on Monday that it would commit CAD 250mn (USD 186mn) to address the growing problem of encampments and homelessness across Canada. Provinces will be required to match the government’s investment cost to qualify for the grants. The funding builds on the existing Reaching Home program, which aims to allocate $3.7 billion [...]
Hungary may seek to file a lawsuit against the European Union for border protection costs, Gergely Gulyás, Hungarian minister for the Prime Minister’s Office, announced this Thursday. Gulyás claimed that Hungary spent the equivalent of 2 billion euros on Schengen Zone border protection without recompense from the European Union. The minister said that Hungary was [...]
US prosecutors indicted two alleged leaders of a white supremacist group for using Telegram to solicit attacks on Black, Jewish, LGBTQ people, and immigrants. The group, named “The Terrorgram Collective,” celebrated terrorist attacks around the world and solicited further attacks, prosecutors told a federal court in Sacramento, California. The accused Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk [...]
The Taipei District Court ruled on Thursday that Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Ko Wen-je should be detained and held incommunicado over alleged corruption from when he served as Mayor of Taipei. Ko also served as the party’s nominee for the 2024 Taipei election which saw the DPP clinch a majority of the votes. This [...]
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for an “immediate cessation” of Israeli military operations in the occupied Palestinian territory on Wednesday. This comes following the large-scale Israeli airstrikes that took place on August 28, which killed 58 people and wounded 131 others throughout the day. This included an airstrike on a girl’s school with displaced [...]
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced Tuesday that it has opened criminal cases against at least seven Western journalists who illegally crossed the state border of the Russian Federation near Sudzha in the Kursk region. The FSB stated that the journalists were charged with violating Part 3 of Article 322 of the Criminal Code of [...]
The Paris Court of Appeals rejected Thursday an appeal to hold Monsanto and fourteen other agrochemical firms for their role in producing Agent Orange for the US armed forces, citing legal immunity from prosecution as they worked at the order of a sovereign government, according to local media. Agent Orange is a mixture of equal [...]
Russian-American dual citizen Ksenia Karelina was sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony and fined three hundred thousand rubles ($3,400) in a closed session of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court. Karelina was arrested on January 27 2024, and detained in a Yekaterinburg jail under Article 275 of the Russian Criminal Code which covers treason. Specifically, [...]
Canada’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced on Thursday that it had broken up a major international human smuggling ring. This comes following an investigation that began in 2022 after the Cornwall Regional Task Force discovered a human smuggling group that was smuggling immigrants from Canada to the US. The RCMP alleges that between July [...]
