Washington DC – On Wednesday, April 24,2024- a panel of justice campaigners gathered for a discussion on Focus on Liberia to address the pressing issue of establishing a War and Economic Crimes Court in Liberia. The panel, consisting of Ms. Lovetta Tugbeh, Mr. Adama Dempster and Mr. Bernard Goah, engaged in a thought-provoking conversation about []
Congress approved a massive foreign aid package late Tuesday, ending a monthslong stalemate, delivering a massive win to President Biden and deepening America’s commitment to Ukraine and its war with Russia.
Legislation forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the US has passed the House and is headed for a vote in the Senate Source
CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia – House Speaker Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa has pledged the Liberian Legislature’s commitment to ratifying the protocol establishing the African Court on Human and People’s Rights. Speaker Koffa made the commitment during a meeting with a high-powered delegation led by Lady Justice Imani D. Aboud, the president of the African Court on []
The House has 27 suffrage bills pending a vote in the full chamber.
In what could have been initially viewed as an act of partisanship in Minnesota's Senate, a Rochester Republican legislator voted for a DFL-backed elections bill last week. However, it turns out that the vote was by accident.
If you are homeless and have nowhere to go — neither a temporary shelter bed nor a permanent home — can you be fined or, worse, jailed for sleeping on a sidewalk? Or is that cruel and unusual punishment? That’s the question that the Supreme Court wrestled with Monday when it heard oral arguments in the case of Grants Pass vs. Johnson regarding the Oregon city's ordinance allowing police to fine or jail homeless people for sleeping outside. A federal district court ruled that the law violated the...
Helen Cruz has been a resident of Grants Pass, Oregon, for roughly four decades, but for the last five of those years, she’s had no home in which to live. She’s not alone. Her small mountain town with a population of 39,189 provides no public homeless shelters. She is among up to 600 people experiencing […]
The Israeli prime minister has good reason to worry, and the defenses he has offered so far are unlikely to help himThe Israeli government believes that the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague is about to file war crimes charges against Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials. We can’t know for sure – the ICC has kept its plans close to the vest – but the Israeli prime minister has good reason to worry, and the defenses he has offered so far are unlikely to help him.The...
During the second Faculty Senate this spring, members passed a motion to change the autumn start date to Tuesdays during years in which the first day of Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur conflicts with the traditional Monday start. They also considered how to manage campus protest activities.
Let us condemn all such atrocious violence as we strive to bring an end to the fighting and devastation in Gaza.
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has had his conviction for sex crimes in New York overturned. The New York Court of Appeals ruled Weinstein did not receive a fair trial. The