California announced on Sunday the unofficial result that voters in the state have rejected Proposition 6, which would have amended the state constitution to bar state prisons from forcing inmates to work. Currently, if prisoners refuse to work, it is legal for prisons to impose disciplinary measures. The ballot measure was rejected by a margin [...]

On Sunday, the Arizona Supreme Court denied a voter rights groups’ emergency petition to extend the deadline to fix mail-in ballot issues for the 2024 US general election. The last day for voters to correct inconsistent signatures was on Sunday. The voters rights groups claimed that administrative issues prevented 350,000 voters from having time to [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi denied US charges Saturday alleging Iran’s involvement in a plot to assassinate president-elect Donald Trump before the US presidential election. According to the charges announced by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday, Iranian national Farhad Shakeri, 51, was tasked by the Iranian government with surveilling and plotting [...]

The US Defense Department (DoD) announced on Saturday that it will appeal a military judge’s decision affirming the validity of plea deals for Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, and two of his co-defendants. This ruling, issued on Wednesday, effectively overturns Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s prior directive to discard the plea [...]

A federal indictment released Thursday revealed the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged the Jackson, Mississippi, mayor, two council members, and the district attorney with conspiracy, bribery, fraud, and money laundering. Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri reported in a DOJ press release that the charges are tied to alleged acts involving [...]

A US federal judge struck down Illinois’ Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA) on Friday, ruling it unconstitutional under the Second Amendment of the US Constitution. US District Judge Stephen McGlynn ruled that PICA infringes on an individual’s Second Amendment rights, citing recent US Supreme Court interpretations of the Second Amendment. He stated: “The Government may [...]

A federal judge in New York dismissed a lawsuit Thursday brought by Raw Story Media, Inc., and AlterNet Media, Inc. against OpenAI. The suit alleged that OpenAI’s product ChatGPT infringed on the plaintiffs’ copyrights by using their news articles to train its language models without authorization and without retaining copyright attribution. The plaintiffs claimed that [...]

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 [...]

Ten US states voted Tuesday on constitutional amendments to guarantee abortion rights. Voters from seven states approved, with three rejecting the amendments. New York, Missouri, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Maryland, and Montana, all passed amendments that will ensure the right to an abortion up to the point of fetal viability. In contrast, voters in Florida, Nebraska, [...]

Justice Federico of the US Tenth Circuit of Appeal overturned a lower-court injunction on Tuesday against a Colorado law that raises the minimum age for purchasing a gun from 18 to 21, concluding that the restriction aligns with common-law standards for possible limitations to the Second Amendment. The case was initiated by the Second Amendment [...]