The Supreme Court of the United States on Wednesday heard oral arguments in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, a case involving a 108-year-old handgun-licensing law. The law requires any person who desires a license to carry a concealed handgun to show “proper cause” for the license. According to New York courts, [...]

A US District Court on Friday denied a temporary restraining order sought by 130 Chicago firefighters and other city employees against COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the city of Chicago. Although district judge John Lee did not dismiss the lawsuit in its entirety, he explained in Friday’s ruling that the city employees had not shown a [...]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted an order ending China Telecom (Americas) Corporation’s ability to operate in the United States. The FCC directed China Telecom to discontinue any domestic or international services that it provides within sixty days of the Tuesday order pursuant to Section 214 of the Communications Act of 1934. In December [...]

A federal district court in Manhattan has found Lev Parnas, a former associate of Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, guilty of six counts of US campaign finance law violations during the 2018 election. Parnas was charged with two counts of conspiring to make donations from a foreign national and making false statements to the Federal Elections Commission. He was [...]

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine on Wednesday announced the addition of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant to an existing lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where the data firm harvested information from as many as 87 million individuals without their knowledge. In 2018, AG Racine brought suit against Facebook alleging misrepresentation [...]

An Iranian appeals court has upheld a one-year prison term for British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on propaganda offenses, according to her lawyer. Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a dual British and Iranian citizen who before her arrest lived in London with her husband Richard Ratcliffe. She previously worked with international development charities through BBC and Thompson Reuters. [...]

The Rights and Security International (RSI), a human rights advocacy group, published on Wednesday the second of two reports calling for the immediate repatriation of women and children held in the al Hol and Roj detention camps in northeast Syria. According to the RSI report, an estimated 12,000 people from countries outside of Iraq and [...]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it has opened a statewide investigation into the conditions in the five secure juvenile correctional facilities operated by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.  The announcement explained that the inquiry will focus on whether Texas provides juveniles in these youth detention facilities reasonable protection from sexual and physical [...]

A military court in Burkina Faso Monday began the trial of 14 people, including prior president Blaise Compaore, accused of plotting the assassination of the country’s former president Thomas Sankara. The trial takes place 34 years after a hit squad gunned down Sankara is one of the most infamous killings in modern African history. On [...]

A group of attorneys on Tuesday filed an ethics complaint against Jeffrey B. Clark, a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia, former Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), and former Acting Chief of the Department’s Civil Division. The group said [...]