SCOTUS Issues Temporary Stay on Abortion Pill Restrictions On Friday, SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito issued a temporary hold on a Texas district judge's ruling that blocked the Food and Drug Admin.'s (FDA) approval of the abortion pill mifepristone after the Dept. of Justice (DOJ) requested the Supreme Court's intervention.... Abortion
Biden to Extend Healthcare For DACA Migrants On Thursday, US Pres. Joe Biden's administration announced a plan to allow undocumented immigrants enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — known as 'Dreamers' — to apply for access to federal health insurance services.... Immigration & refugees
Aide: Jailed Putin Critic Navalny's Illness May Be Slow Poisoning Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition politician, is grappling with severe stomach pain in jail, which his spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, claims could be the result of slow-acting poison.... Russia
India: 4 Soldiers Killed in Punjab Army Base Shooting Four Indian army soldiers were killed in a shooting while sleeping in a barracks inside the Bathinda military station in Punjab early Wednesday morning.... Pakistan
Kansas Bans Trans Athletes From Women’s Sports Overriding Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly's veto, the Kansas state legislature Wednesday passed a bill banning transgender athletes from competing in women's sports after failing to gain the two-thirds majority needed for an override in 2021 and 2022.... Abortion
US Panel Votes to Expand Compassionate Release for Prisoners On Wednesday, the US Sentencing Commission approved new guidelines that will expand inmates' ability to qualify for compassionate release from federal prison.... Verdicts & sentences
J&J Unit Files For Bankruptcy to Pursue $8.9B Talc Settlement Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has agreed to pay $8.9B, far larger than its original offer of $2B, to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that talc in its famous baby powder product caused cancer.... Lawsuits
Malaysian Parliament Moves to End Mandatory Death Penalty Malaysia's House of Representatives on Monday approved a parliamentary bill abolishing the mandatory death penalty and lifelong imprisonment, after years of the government seeking to make such punishment optional in the country.... Singapore
Pakistan: Top Court Sets Punjab Provincial Election For May 14 Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared the decision made by the country's election commission to delay Punjab's provincial election from April 30 to Oct. 8 as unconstitutional, ordering the government to hold snap elections on May 14.... Pakistan
Malaysia: Former PM Najib Loses Bid to Review Corruption Case Malaysia's top court on Friday dismissed the ultimate court challenge by jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak to review his corruption conviction and 12-year prison sentence.... Malaysia
US Judge Strikes Down ACA Preventive Care Mandate A federal judge in Texas on Thursday struck down an Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandate requiring health insurance plans to cover preventive care, including screenings for certain cancers and pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV (PrEP), at no cost to patients.... India
California Court: App-based Drivers Are Contractors A California appeals court Monday ruled to largely uphold Proposition 22, a voter-approved law that classified drivers for ride-share and delivery companies as independent contractors.... Verdicts & sentences
Robert Kennedy's Assassin Denied Parole For 16th Time On Wednesday, Sirhan Sirhan, serving a life sentence for assassinating presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, was denied parole for the 16th time despite a review board recommending he walk free in 2021.... Jordan
Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 16 More Years in Prison On top of his current 23-year sentence for sexual assault, former Hollywood film tycoon Harvey Weinstein, 70, was sentenced on Thursday to an additional 16 years after being found guilty of the 2013 rape of an actress in Los Angeles.... Sex crimes
Brexit: Democratic Unionist Party Won't Compromise on Northern Ireland Reports have emerged that a deal may soon be struck over the Northern Ireland Protocol after a meeting was held on Friday between UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and leaders from Northern Ireland's (NI's) Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin in Belfast.... Metaculus
Buffalo Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole 19-year-old gunman Payton Gendron, who pleaded guilty to killing 10 Black people in a racially motivated shooting in May 2022, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole during a court hearing on Wednesday.... Extradition
Report: Deal on Northern Ireland Could be Struck Next Week According to UK sources, negotiations over the Northern Ireland protocol are reaching their final stages with a deal possible as early as next week. However, sources say that talks are still at a delicate stage with no guarantee of a final agreement.... Metaculus
Cambodia: Prime Minister Orders Shut Down of Independent Broadcaster One of the last remaining independent broadcasters in Cambodia, Voice of Democracy (VOD), has ceased operations after Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday ordered its shutdown over alleged attacks by the outlets on the politician and his son.... Cambodia
Missouri Dismisses Ban on Minors Carrying Guns Legislators in Missouri's Republican-majority House on Wednesday voted 104-39 to reject a proposal that would’ve banned minors from carrying guns in public without adult supervision. Only one Republican voted in favor of the proposal.... Gun control
Two Men Awaiting Sentencing Over Jan. 6 Attack Two men were scheduled to be sentenced Friday for their roles in the pepper-spraying of a US Capitol police officer during the Jan Verdicts & sentences
Argentina: Rugby Players Sentenced for Murder This wraps up a widely covered four-week trial over a case that has shocked Argentina. The 18-year-old Báez Sosa was reportedly attacked outside a nightclub in the coastal resort city of Villa Gesell by the group of rugby players, who beat him to death before leaving to buy hamburgers. Argentina
US Judge: Ban on Marijuana Users Owning Guns Unconstitutional On Friday, US District Judge Patrick Wyrick in Oklahoma ruled a federal law banning marijuana users from possessing firearms violates the Second Amendment Gun control
Musk Found Not Liable in Trial Over Tesla Tweets On Friday, a US jury in San Francisco, Calif Lawsuits
Supreme Court Considering Cases to Determine Tenets of Online Speech SCOTUS could consider cases that dramatically alter the rules governing online speech and the protections given to big tech platforms as, on Friday, it will discuss whether to hear two cases challenging Florida and Texas laws prohibiting platforms from censoring political speech Freedom of speech & expression
Court to Hear Chauvin's Appeal in George Floyd's Murder On Wednesday, Derek Chauvin's attorney asked the Minnesota Court of Appeals to toss out the former Minneapolis police officer's convictions relating to the murder of George Floyd Murders and attempted murders
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