Russia’s media censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, opened a case against Google Monday for failing to remove banned content from its search results. According to the agency, Google has failed to remove up to 30 percent of prohibited content from its searches. This “dangerous content” includes extremist, pornographic, and suicide-related information. Russian law requires Google and other [...]
Thai lawmakers voted to amend their constitution on Wednesday, but ultimately rejected the reform many protesters were hoping for. Although the protesters called for monarchical reform, only 212 of 732 parliament members voted in favor of the relevant motion. Although citizens have been protesting since July, the members of parliament delayed their vote until the [...]
The FBI released their annual hate crime report on Monday, revealing that 2019 brought unusually high numbers of hate crimes and hate-motivated killings in the US. The number of hate crimes reached its highest level in over a decade, while the number of hate crime murders was the largest yet reported. The report, created by [...]
The Paris prosecutor’s office on Tuesday announced plans to advance the criminal investigation against the public officials responsible for France’s response to COVID-19. Initiated in June, the inquiry now seeks to identify and prove the nature of the offenses committed. The decisions made by these public officials are now being scrutinized for their effect on [...]
A Texas judge ruled Friday that El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego’s shutdown order was valid. The order, issued in response to rising COVID-19 cases, temporarily closes all non-essential businesses in the area. Directly after Samaniego issued the shutdown order over a week ago, a group of restaurant owners filed a lawsuit to have the [...]
Days after a get-out-the-vote rally in Graham, North Carolina, ended with police pepper spraying and arresting participants, organizers in the county have filed a suit against Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson and Graham Chief of Police Mary Kristy Cole. The lawsuit accuses the defendants of voter intimidation and sets forth a request for punitive damages. [...]
A get-out-the-vote rally in Graham, North Carolina, ended Saturday after police officers reportedly pepper-sprayed and arrested the participants. Videos of the incident were broadcasted online as witnesses took to Twitter to describe and remark on what they saw. Saturday’s demonstration took place outside Alamance County’s Courthouse, where organizers emphasized the importance of early voting and [...]
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declared a state of emergency Sunday after a new spike in COVID-19 infections in the country. Sánchez further imposed a nighttime curfew on citizens and prohibited meetings of more than six people. Regional travel may also be limited under the order. After facing relatively a higher number of cases early [...]
As part of a documentary shown in Rome Wednesday, Pope Francis voiced his support for civil unions for same-sex couples. “Homosexuals have a right to be part of the family,” said the Pope, referring to members of the LGBTQ+ community as “children of God” and encouraging the creation of civil union laws. These statements were [...]
The US Supreme Court Monday granted petitions for writs of certiorari in three cases: Wolf v. Innovation Law Lab, Lange v. California, and Trump v. Sierra Club. The certiorari order came after the Court’s October 16 conference to vote on new petitions and discuss previous oral arguments. Two of the newly-accepted cases involve the Trump [...]
