In a statement on Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new visa restrictions for individuals who are “undermining democracy” in Liberia ahead of the country’s elections in October. The statement came less than two weeks before Liberia’s upcoming presidential elections, to be held on October 10, 2023. The election is considered a toss-up between [...]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton resumed office Saturday after being acquitted on all 16 charges in his impeachment trial. Paxton was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives in May 2023 after allegations that he had made legal decisions specifically to benefit a real-estate developer, Nate Paul, with whom he had personal connections and had [...]

The Council of Europe released a joint statement Sunday condemning the recent elections in the Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine. Over the course of one week, Russia held regional elections across several parts Ukraine, including four regions that it does not fully control – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson. The elections resulted in an overwhelming majority [...]

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas disclosed in his annual financial report made public Thursday that he accepted three trips from billionaire Harlan Crow in 2022. This disclosure was published after Thomas received political backlash for accepting extravagant gifts while serving on the United States Supreme Court. A previous report from ProPublica accused Thomas of accepting [...]

The North Carolina House and Senate voted Wednesday to override Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of three bills related to LGTBQ+ youths. The bills, SB49, HB808 and HB574, each target a different LGTBQ-related issue. SB49, which limits discussion of gender and sexual identity in classrooms, has been compared by Cooper to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. [...]

In a special late night session Tuesday, the Iowa legislature advanced a bill that would ban abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy. House File 732, known as the “Fetal Heartbeat Bill,” would ban abortions in the state of Iowa as soon as any cardiac activity is detected in the fetus. Such activity can [...]

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled Thursday in Groff v. DeJoy that challenges under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act for religious accommodation in the workplace would require employers to show substantially increased costs. The Court used this case to clarify a precedential case often relied on in Title VII cases, and [...]

The Tribunal of Vatican City State ordered two Italian activists Monday to pay 28,148 euros in restitution for the damages caused by their protest. The court found that two members of Ultima Generazione (Last Generation), Guido Viero and Ester Goffi, damaged the base of the Gruppo del Laocoonte (Laocoön Group) statute inside the Vatican Museum, [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found Thursday in Slack Technologies v. Pirani that federal securities law requires plaintiffs to prove their shares are directly traceable to misleading information in a registration statement in order to sue. Fiyyaz Pirani, an individual investor, sued Slack Technologies, an instant messaging app, after the stock price dropped. Pirani bought [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the government cannot keep the profits of properties sold to pay off tax debts. The court reached this decision in the case of Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al., wherein a local Minnesota government sold off a woman’s condo to satisfy her tax bill. The case centered [...]