The Department of Justice Tuesday announced that two individuals in Manhattan were arrested for an alleged conspiracy to launder $4.5 billion in stolen cryptocurrency. The cryptocurrency was stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange. Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan, allegedly conspired to launder the proceeds of 119,754 bitcoin that were stolen [...]
Three female graduate students Tuesday filed a lawsuit in the United Stats District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Harvard, alleging that Harvard mishandled Title IX complaints and allowed Anthropology Professor John L. Comaroff to intimidate students who threatened to report him, including the plaintiffs. Professor Comaroff is the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African-American [...]
UN agencies warned Thursday that the COVID-19 pandemic could reverse decades of global progress in stamping out female genital mutilation. The warning comes just days before the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation on February 6. The World Health Organization has defined female genital mutilation as involving the partial or total removal [...]
The Taliban’s main spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, Wednesday announced that the cabinet had decided that Taliban fighters were no longer allowed to carry their weapons, wear their military uniforms, or drive their military vehicles in amusement parks in Afghanistan. The Taliban took control of Afghanistan’s capital in Kabul on August 15, 2021. According to Taliban members, the majority [...]
A judge on the US District Court for the District of Columbia Thursday invalidated an oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, finding that the Biden administration failed to properly account for the auction’s environmental impact. In 2017, Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program issued a five-year plan which proposed [...]
Human Rights Watch Tuesday released a report showing that LGBTQ+ people in Afghanistan have experienced increasing violence and threats to their safety since the Taliban took complete control of the country on August 15, 2021. From October to December 2021, Human Rights Watch interviewed 60 LGBTQ+ Afghans about their lives under Taliban rule. Most of those who [...]
A lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court for the Southern District of New York argues that New York’s law prohibiting individuals who are not lawyers from providing legal advice interferes with New Yorkers First Amendment rights. According to the complaint, debt collection actions are one of the most common lawsuits in New York. To respond [...]
A Pakistan sessions court in Rawalpindi Wednesday sentenced a Muslim woman to death for committing blasphemy by insulting Prophet Muhammad over WhatsApp messages. Aneeqa Atteeq was accused of sending blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad and making remarks about holy personages on WhatsApp while also using her Facebook account to post blasphemous materials to others. The [...]
The US Supreme Court Wednesday heard oral arguments in Concepcion v. United States, a case pertaining to sentencing requirements and reductions for drug offenses under the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 and the First Step Act. In 2008, Carlos Concepcion was found guilty of one count of possession of at least five grams of cocaine base [...]
The US Supreme Court Wednesday heard oral arguments in Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz for Senate, a case concerning federal election law, political campaign finance rules, and spending limits. On November 4, 2018, the day before the Senate general election in Texas, Senator Ted Cruz made two campaign finance loans to the Ted Cruz for Senate [...]
