Human rights organizations signed an open letter Tuesday declaring China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang province a genocide. The letter cited a November 2019 UN report that raised concerns over “increasing practices of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, absence of judicial oversight and procedural safeguards … within an increasingly securitized environment, particularly for designated minorities, [...]
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Sunday to lower drug prices. The purpose of the order is to cap the amount that Medicare would pay for pharmaceutical drugs relative to the prices paid by other nations. The cap is set at the lowest price of the drug that other nations have bargained with [...]
Iranian officials wrestler executed Navid Afkari Saturday for his alleged involvement with a murder of a security agent during August 2018 against Iran’s Shiite theocracy. The execution followed after Iran televised Afkari’s confession last week. International human rights advocates suspect that the confession was coerced because the confession resembled those found in a report by [...]
Several Pennsylvania bar exam applicants published a letter to the Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection Wednesday requesting an investigation into ExamSoft, the software being used to administer the upcoming October bar exam. The applicants expressed concerns that recent data breaches resulted from fundamental security flaws within the ExamSoft site. The applicants also allege that ExamSoft [...]
G7 foreign ministers condemned the poisoning of Alexei Navalny Wednesday. The statement comes after UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called Tuesday for an independent Russian investigation into the poisoning. The G7 foreign ministers plan to follow the investigation efforts closely. Bachelet remarked: The number of cases of poisoning, or other forms of [...]
A federal judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has stayed a district court order to subpoena President Trump’s tax returns. The stay, issued Tuesday, will prevent the district court from accessing Trump’s tax returns until the Second Circuit makes its decision in the case. In his motion to stay, the [...]
A panel of federal judges used a recent Supreme Court opinion to uphold Arkansas abortion restrictions Friday. The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld the regulations by deferring to Justice Roberts’ concurring opinion in the recently-decided Supreme Court case, June Medical Services L. L. C. v. Russo. By deferring to Justice Roberts’ [...]
A federal court blocked Idaho’s ban on transgender individuals changing their sex on their birth certificates Friday. The court reasoned that the ban violated a previous court order that prohibited any policy that prevents transgender individuals from changing their birth certificate sex. The court’s original order pertained to an executive agency rule that prohibited such [...]
A federal judge denied Oregon’s legal bid to stop federal law enforcement officer arrest tactics in Portland on Friday. The State of Oregon filed suit following an investigation into federal law enforcement officers who had entered Portland following recent protests and riots over the George Floyd killing. The State of Oregon alleged that unmarked federal [...]
The US Senate has passed a bill to rename US military bases named after officers of the Confederate Army defeated in the Civil War. If signed into law, the legislation would affect some 10 US Army installations located in the American South, most of which were given their current designations between the end of World [...]
