More than 30 human rights organizations signed an open letter on Wednesday calling for the immediate release of activist Abdulrahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who has been detained in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) since January. This letter is addressed to leaders in the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU), urging them to use all [...]

Texas Attorney General Ken Pax­ton filed a lawsuit Friday against the city of San Antonio for unlawfully using public funds to subsidize out-of-state abortion travel. This follows a similar injunction filed against the city of Austin in September. The San Antonio City Council recently approved $100,000 towards the city’s Reproductive Justice Fund (“the fund”) in [...]

A coalition of 21 Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Friday in an attempt to stop a presidential executive order that cuts funding for several federal agencies, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The lawsuit states that for these agencies, compliance has “meant gutting every one of their operations—statutorily mandated or not.” [...]

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed a corruption indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday. This ruling comes in response to a motion filed in February by the Department of Justice (DOJ), requesting that the indictment be dismissed without prejudice. Charges dismissed without prejudice can be [...]