A three-judge federal court on Tuesday barred Alabama from using its Republican-drawn congressional map in this year’s elections, ruling that the map intentionally discriminated against Black voters — ...

Pope Leo XIV warned Monday of the dangers presented by artificial intelligence (AI) systems, citing the threat of 'increasingly autonomous weapons systems practically beyond human reach to govern ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Israeli President Isaac Herzog that Israel's treatment of detained flotilla activists is 'appalling' and 'unacceptable' after a call between the two on ...

No amount of money can pay for slavery and colonialism, and offering it, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. argues, is itself an insult. That was the premise the Ghanaian journalist and Pan-Africanist — widely known ...

Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in ...

A policy shift announced on Friday, by US Citizenship and Immigration Services stands to alter the most common pathway to lawful permanent residence in the United States, requiring most foreign ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday condemned the forced repatriations of refugees and asylum-seekers to Afghanistan by countries citing national security and economic ...

At a press conference on Thursday, Assistant Attorney General for National Fraud Enforcement Colin McDonald announced that federal charges were being brought against 15 defendants accused of ...

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has settled its first national case with a school district over harm to children’s mental health.  The terms of the settlement with Breathitt ...

A UN expert on Friday praised a ruling by Colombia's Supreme Court upholding a 20-year prison sentence for a man found guilty of offering money to young children in exchange for sexual acts. The ...

Amnesty International demanded the removal of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Commander 'Abu Lulu' on Tuesday, citing war crime allegations. Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East Africa, ...

On May 18, 2026, President Donald Trump moved to voluntarily dismiss his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), just two days before US District Judge Kathleen Williams ...