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Civil liberties

Davos Climate Activists Paint Amazon Base Green

China Executes Two Convicted for Mass Killings

Mark Zuckerberg is getting rid of the DEI policy that I created for Facebook

NHS Trials Ultrasound Brain Chip for Mental Health

Trump brings DOGE inside the White House

Business Insider8 hrs

Ethics

Alito-Trump Call Sparks Ethics Debate Ahead of Court Filing

UK: Conservative MP Calls for Retrial in Case of Convicted Baby Killer Lucy Letby

A Trump DOJ Could Bring an End to the Yearslong Investigation of His Ally Ken Paxton

ProPublica4 days

UK: Anti-Corruption Minister Refers Herself to Ethics Probe

President Biden pardons brother James, other relatives for unspecified crimes before leaving office

Privacy

UK to Age-Verify Online Pornography by July

14 AGs Sue TikTok Over Mental Health, Data Concerns

A breach of a data broker’s trove of location data threatens the privacy of millions

TechCrunchJan 14

FBI Settles $22M Sexual Discrimination Lawsuit

'60 Minutes' Didn't Advise Facebook Users to Post This Notice About Personal Data

Freedom of speech & expression

TikTok Goes Dark in US as Federal Ban Takes Effect

Russia: Alexei Navalny Lawyers Get Multi-Year Sentences

Meta executives try to reassure advertisers after CEO Mark Zuckerberg's free speech makeover

Business Insider6 hrs

US Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Divest-Or-Ban Law

A New Group Aims to Protect Whistleblowers In the Trump Era

Freedom & human rights

UN: Over 1M Internally Displaced in Haiti Amid Gang Violence

UN: Australia Violated Refugee Rights in Nauru Detention Center

Over 40 legal experts call for inquiry into Met handling of Palestine March – as its boss gets caught out

Taliban Orders NGOs to Stop Employing Women or Face Closure

3 lawyers for the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are jailed by a Russian court

Associated Press4 days

Guns

Report: US Mass Shootings, Gun Deaths Fall to Five-Year Low

Wisconsin School Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 6 Injured

3D-printed guns, like the one allegedly used to kill a health care CEO, are a growing threat in the US and around the world

The ConversationDec 18, 2024

House Democratic Staffer Arrested for Carrying Ammunition to Capitol

GOP Lawmakers Might Be Poised to Score a Major Second Amendment Victory

Capital punishment

China Sentences Ex-Government Employee to Death for Alleged State Secrets Leak

Japan: Court Acquits Man Who Spent 46 Years on Death Row

Death penalty sought for culprits in 'Pattaya barrel murder' case

Korea HeraldJan 01

Missouri Executes Marcellus Williams Amid Innocence Claims

Family of murdered SC woman rages at Biden for commuting killer's death sentence: 'She was shown no mercy'

Freedom of press

Italian Journalist Cecilia Sala Released From Iranian Prison

Trump Sues Des Moines Register, Iowa Pollster

TikTok ban: How both sides made their case to the Supreme Court and what the justices asked

TechCrunchJan 08

UK Court: Northern Ireland Police Unlawfully Spied on Journalists

What should journalists do when the facts don’t matter?

The ConversationNov 23, 2024

Censorship

Trump Taps Carr to Chair FCC

Cameroon Bans Media From Discussing President's Health

Chris Nineham to speak publicly on Wednesday over his arrest at pro-Palestine march

Brazil Lifts Ban on X

Trump Issues Order to End Censorship

Consortium News19 hrs

Church-state relations

Oklahoma Orders Schools to Teach Bible

French Minister Visits School Over Renaissance Painting Row

Inside the Plan to Funnel Taxpayer Dollars to Religious Schools — ProPublica

ProPublicaJan 14

Japan Seeks to Revoke Unification Church's Legal Status

Texas could join Louisiana with a law to require the Ten Commandments in classrooms

NPR Online News1 day