A US federal court judge Wednesday declined to dismiss a case against a Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer who is accused of a single count of making a false statement to the FBI. The case stems from a 2016 meeting Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann had with the FBI’s then-general counsel James Baker. Sussmann requested the meeting [...]

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives Tuesday passed a bill that would prohibit transgender girls and women from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity. House Bill 972, also known as the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, would require all public school sports teams, and private school teams that compete against public school teams, [...]

The Council of the EU Friday imposed its fifth round of economic and individual sanctions against Russia for its ongoing aggression against Ukraine. This fifth package of sanctions is comprised of six elements. The first is a complete import ban on all forms of Russian coal. European imports of coal are worth about €8 billion [...]

The US Departments of State and Treasury Thursday announced sanctions against two more Russian state-owned enterprises. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Alrosa, the world’s largest diamond mining company, which manages 90 percent of Russia’s diamond mining capacity and accounts for nearly 30% percent of global diamond mining. Secretary of State Antony Blinken [...]

An energy company was sentenced Tuesday in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for multiple violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). ESI Energy Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, which is owned by NextEra Energy Inc. ESI owns many companies that run wind energy generation facilities throughout the US, including in Wyoming and [...]

The prosecutor’s office of the International Criminal Court Thursday said that it would open an office in Venezuela to aid its investigation of allegations of crimes against humanity in the country. The announcement follows the end of a second visit to the South American nation by ICC prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan. He was previously [...]

Led by Florida Republican governor Ron DeSantis, twenty-one states filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Center for Disease Control’s public transportation mask mandate. The current CDC order, in place since February of last year, requires those traveling on “conveyances” within the United States, including airplanes, trains, and buses, to wear a mask. It also requires [...]

Oklahoma Republican governor Kevin Stitt Wednesday signed into law a bill that bans transgender women and girls from competing on sports teams consistent with their gender at public schools and colleges in the state. SB2, also known as the Save Women’s Sports Act, requires sports teams at public schools to be designated based on biological sex, [...]

The US Treasury Department, in coordination with the governments of Canada and the UK, issued additional sanctions Friday against five Myanmar individuals and five Myanmar entities for their roles in procuring weapons and equipment for the military regime. The sanctions were leveled just days prior to Myanmar’s Armed Forces Day, March 27. On Armed Forces [...]

A Maryland circuit court judge Friday struck down the state’s new congressional district map, calling it an “extreme gerrymander.” The new district map was drawn by the Democratically-controlled state general assembly last year but was vetoed by Republican Governor Larry Hogan. That same day the general assembly overrode Hogan’s veto and enacted the map. Maryland [...]