The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Maine legislators to temporarily restore the voting power of a state lawmaker after she had been censured for a social media post that criticized transgender athletes’ participation in girls’ sports. The order was unsigned and did not provide the court’s reasoning, as is typical in such emergency applications. No […]
An Indian academic, Badar Khan Suri, detained during the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign students, has been ordered released by a federal judge in Virginia.The judge said his case raised serious constitutional concerns.Badar Khan Suri, a visiting scholar at Georgetown University, had been held in an immigration detention centre in Texas and is facing deportation. […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) NAIROBI: Burundi’s parliament appointed a new human rights commission late Monday after its previous head fled into exile and said its mission was to “fight” the United Nations‘s rights envoy. International rights groups have long accused Burundi’s government of suppressing civil society, political opposition and the media. The country’s own National Independent […]
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced a 20% cut to the number of four-star generals and admirals across all military branches. The move, which applies across all military branches, comes amid wider efforts to reduce the federal government’s size and restructure its leadership along ideological lines. The directive, revealed in a memo signed by […]
The world watched closely when US President Donald Trump published his first 26 executive orders on January 20, his first day in office. By attempting to overturn birthright citizenship among other anti-immigration orders, broadly targeting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and specifically targeting the rights of transgender people, he set the tone for the first […]
After defence secretary, the FBI has recently begun conducting polygraph examinations to identify information leaks, as confirmed by a bureau spokesperson. National security agencies in the Trump administration are intensifying leak investigations, implementing polygraph tests that are creating an atmosphere of fear amongst officials.Attorney General Pam Bondi‘s revised legal guidelines now permit the Justice Department […]
Donald Trump (File photo) Donald Trump’s return to the White House for a second presidential term has brought a whirlwind of administrative changes in his first 100 days, with his administration touting sweeping reforms which included 140 executive orders, 139,000 deportations, 280,000 federal job cuts, and tariffs as high as 145 per cent. Supporters highlight […]
US President Donald Trump in a new executive order signed Wednesday (local time) targeted the college accreditation process, a key mechanism through which universities gain access to federal financial aid, intensifying his administration’s ongoing conflict with elite academic institutions such as Harvard University, The Hill reported.The order, which has not yet been publicly released, was […]
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order targeting college accreditors, a group of largely unknown but long-established companies that evaluate the educational quality and financial health of universities. The order, one of seven education-related measures he signed on Wednesday, was the latest move by Mr. Trump aimed at shifting the ideological tilt of the […]
Continuing a pattern of stonewalling, the Justice Department has defied a judge’s order to explain what the Trump administration has done, and plans to do, to seek the release of a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador last month, according to court papers filed on Tuesday. In refusing to reveal much of […]
