The Biden administration proposed new export restrictions on computer chips used for artificial intelligence (AI) on Monday. The restrictions are an effort to prevent other rival nations, from accessing and abusing advanced US technology. The Biden administration referred to its new regulation as “an Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion.” In its press release, [...]

A report by Special Counsel Jack Smith released Tuesday detailed the prosecutor’s rationale behind the election interference prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump. Released nearly two months after Trump’s federal charges were dropped, Smith’s report explained various decisions made during the prosecution effort and detailed its trajectory before ending due to Trump’s 2024 election victory. Smith [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case brought by the state of Utah seeking to assert state control over 18.5 million acres of federally owned lands, leaving in place a lower court ruling that upheld federal authority. The decision is a significant setback for Utah’s long-standing efforts to transfer ownership of [...]

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on Monday refused to hear the appeals of multiple oil companies which alleged that a negligence lawsuit against them violates the US Constitution’s separation of powers and federal common law. The two lawsuits, one led by Sunoco and one led by Shell, assert that the Supreme Court [...]

A federal judge authorized the partial release on Monday of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report on investigations into president-elect Donald Trump. The decision followed a federal appeals court’s decision on Thursday not to prevent the report’s release. US District Judge Aileen Cannon rejected an emergency motion from Trump associates, Waltine Nauta and Carlos de [...]

The Department of Homeland Security announced on Friday that it has extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador, Ukraine, Sudan and Venezuela, granting 937,000 nationals from these countries an additional 18 months of immigration protection under the TPS program. The George HW Bush administration established the TPS program by enacting the Immigration Act of [...]

US prosecutors seek a 15-year prison term for former Senator Robert (Bob) Menendez of New Jersey on Thursday, following his convictions of bribery, corruption and acting as an unregistered foreign agent on July 16. The charges stemmed from a years-long process in which Menendez utilized his position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee [...]

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 Supreme Court of New Mexico unanimously struck down restrictive abortion access policies in local counties on Thursday. Despite the state having criminalized abortion for over 57 years, New Mexico has now become one of the most liberal states in regard to abortion rights. Writing for the unanimous judgment, Justice C. Shannon Bacon stated in [...]

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday an agreement to repatriate approximately $52.88 million in forfeited assets to Nigeria. The assets are linked to a corruption case involving former Nigerian Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and her associates. Under the agreement, $50 million of the repatriated funds will be dedicated to the Distributed [...]