The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday criticized social media company Meta’s decision to end fact-checking programs created to battle the spread of misinformation on social networks, stressing the “real world consequences” of unregulated online spaces. Türk cited the immense power of social media to “fuel conflict, incite hate and threaten [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a lawsuit Tuesday against six corporate landlords and a software company accused of colluding to fix rent prices by sharing sensitive competitive information through the use of pricing algorithms. The DOJ accused the landlords of colluding through software created by tech company RealPage, which collects sensitive pricing information [...]

The Judicial Conference of the United States declined Thursday to refer an ethics investigation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the Department of Justice (DOJ) over authority concerns and amended disclosures filed by the judge. The refusal letter was sent to Democratic lawmakers who called for the body to advise the DOJ to investigate [...]

Gun laws across the US states are undergoing changes in 2025, with many states strengthening gun safety laws while others have expanded the rights of firearm owners, reflecting the polarization on the issue of gun control in the country. While new laws taking effect Wednesday in California, Colorado, New York, Delaware and Minnesota have focused [...]

New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed a climate change bill into law, empowering the state government to levy heavy fines on fossil fuel companies. The fines will go to a “superfund” that pays for addressing environmental damages caused by human-driven climate change. The Climate Change Superfund Act creates a climate adaptation cost recovery [...]

Former US Representative Matt Gaetz (FL) withdrew his name from consideration for attorney general on Thursday in the face of considerable Republican opposition in the Senate and pending release of a report from a House Ethics Committee investigation into sex trafficking allegations. Citing meetings with members of the Senate and the uphill battle the nomination [...]

The daughters of civil rights leader Malcolm X filed a civil action Friday against the US, the city of New York, and the estates of various former federal agents for their alleged role in concealing, condoning, and facilitating his assassination in 1965. The family of Malcolm X is represented by noted civil rights attorney Ben [...]

President-elect Donald Trump nominated former congressman Matt Gaetz on Wednesday to be the 87th US Attorney General. This represents a stunning reversal of fortunes for the embattled Gaetz who until February of this year was under investigation by the very Department of Justice (DOJ) that he has now been chosen to lead. Gaetz tendered his [...]

The UN Human Rights Office released a report Friday detailing six months of war in Gaza from November 2023 to April 2024, denouncing the “horrific” suffering inflicted by Israel as well as Palestinian armed groups, and warning of potential crimes against humanity. In an accompanying release, the UN rights chief Volker Türk urged Israel to comply [...]

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) released a guide Wednesday for supporting asylum seekers in light of Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 US presidential election, while also calling on the incoming administration to collaborate on the protection of refugee rights. According to the IRC, over 120 million people have been displaced by conflicts or disasters [...]