A US federal appeals court confirmed Friday a 2023 decision to uphold a Title IX exemption for sex-based discrimination at religious post-secondary institutions that receive federal funding. Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr. of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit agreed with the lower court’s dismissal of the suit and held that Congress, [...]
The state of Florida on Thursday executed Loran Cole, a 57-year-old Florida man who contended that lethal injection would cause him “needless pain and suffering” due to his Parkinson’s disease. The execution took place after the US Supreme Court denied a last-minute appeal to stop it. The appeal was submitted to Justice Thomas, the circuit justice [...]
The Brazilian Supreme Court on Friday suspended the operations of X (formerly Twitter). This move came after the platform failed to comply with Brazil’s legal requirement to appoint a local representative. Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who issued the order, underscored the importance of adhering to this legal obligation, marking a critical moment in the ongoing conflict [...]
The Hong Kong District Court on Thursday found Best Pencil (Hong Kong Limited), the parent company of Stand News, along with former chief editor Chung Pui-kuen and former acting chief editor Patrick Lam, guilty of “conspiracy to publish and/or reproduce seditious publications” under the now-repealed section 10(1)(c) of the Crimes Ordinance. The sentencing hearing is [...]
The UN Human Rights Office and UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) called for culpable individuals of alleged human rights violations committed in Tarhuna, Libya between 2013 and 2022 to be held accountable in a Friday report. The report warned that the impunity culpable individuals enjoyed may compound instability and division in Libya. According to [...]
The California State Assembly approved a bill on Wednesday that lays the foundation for regulating artificial intelligence (AI) in the state, including requiring developers to meet certain conditions before beginning AI model training. The bill, SB 1047, will only affect developers responsible for the training of “covered models,” which the bill defines based on the [...]
The union representing workers from Canada’s two largest rail companies filed a court challenge against a labour board order requiring them to return to work. The order was issued after the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference entered into a lockout last week. Workers at Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) briefly began a [...]
The German government carried out on Friday morning its first deportation flight of Afghan nationals back to their home country, according to a statement published by Germany’s Minister of Interior and Home Affairs Nancy Faeser. The deported people were 28 Afghans who had been convicted of criminal offenses and were subject to deportation orders. They [...]
Former US President Donald Trump filed a motion on Thursday to move his New York hush money case to federal court, an attempt that could overturn his conviction and delay his sentencing date until after the presidential election in November. Trump’s legal team asked the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [...]
A downtown Toronto court judge heard Wednesday as part of an agreed statement of facts that a teenage girl in custody had been strip-searched six times at two different facilities while in custody. The searches were reportedly part of routine procedures for the facilities every time she arrived or returned from a family visit or [...]
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