House Republicans are plunging headlong into another divisive debate this time over government spy powers‚ a battle that pits them against each other and reveals deep-seated uncertainty about their partys ideological direction.Reapproving the section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act known as Section 702‚ which allows the intelligence community to collect and search through the communications of foreign targets without a warrant‚ was always going to be difficult given the sour...

First‚ the good news: Donald TrumpsMonday-morning statementon abortion reminded pro-lifers that he could turn up the rhetorical heat on Democrats on these issues‚ as he did in 2016 debates. Democrats are the radical ones on this position because they support abortion up to and even beyond the ninth month‚ he said‚ the concept of having an abortion in the later months and even execution after birth. He is right that Democrats almost uniformly oppose any legal protection for...

The European Court of Human Rights has made a landmark ruling thatgovernments have a duty to protect people from climate change.In a case brought by a group of elderly Swiss women‚ the Strasbourg judges ruled that Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change.The ruling is binding and can trickle down to influence the law in 46 countries in Europe including the UK. The court found that the Swiss state had violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights‚...

Jennifer and James Crumbley‚ who were convicted of involuntary manslaughter for failing to prevent their teenage son from killing four fellow students in the worst school shooting in Michigans history‚ will be sentenced by a judge on Tuesday.Their separate jury trials ended in guilty verdicts inFebruaryandMarch‚ making them the first parents in the country to be convicted for the deaths caused by their child in a mass shooting.Involuntary manslaughter charges carry a...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Tuesday in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who had argued that their government';s inadequate efforts to combat climate change put them at risk of dying during heatwaves.The European court';s decision on the case‚ brought by more than 2‚000 women‚ could have a ripple effect across Europe and beyond‚ setting a precedent for how some courts deal with the rising tide of climate litigation argued on the basis of human rights...

An international court in France on Tuesday ruled Switzerlandsfailure to adequately tackle the climate crisiswas in violation of human rights‚ in a landmark climate judgment that could have a ripple effect across the globe.The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg‚ France delivered its ruling in a casebrought bymore than 2‚000 Swiss women‚ the majority of whom are in their 70s‚ against Switzerlands government. They argued that climate change-fueled...

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