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New York overhauls gun laws after Supreme Court ruling

July 2, 2022 World Justice News 0

New York has passed emergency legislation to ban guns from many public places, following last month’s landmark Supreme Court ruling which struck down the state’s restrictions. The rules also require gun buyers to prove they […]

R. Kelly given 30 years in jail for sex abuse

June 29, 2022 World Justice News 0

US singer R. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for using his celebrity status to sexually abuse children and women. The R&B artist, 55, was convicted last September in New York of […]

Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years over sex trafficking

June 28, 2022 World Justice News 0

Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in a US prison for helping disgraced former financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls. Maxwell, 60, was convicted in December of recruiting and trafficking four teenage girls […]

Supreme Court ruling expands US gun rights

June 23, 2022 World Justice News 0

The US Supreme Court has struck down a New York law restricting gun carrying rights, in its most important judgement on guns in over a decade. It expands gun rights amid a fierce national debate […]

Honduran ex-leader Hernández to be extradited to US next week

April 15, 2022 World Justice News 0

Honduran ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández is to be extradited to the United States as early as next week, Honduras’ security minister says. Mr Hernández, who governed from 2014 to January this year, was arrested at […]

NY attorney general seeks to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court

April 8, 2022 World Justice News 0

New York’s top lawyer has asked a state judge to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court, for allegedly failing to turn over files for an investigation into his business practices. Attorney General Letitia James […]

Police charge man over string of shootings targeting homeless

March 16, 2022 World Justice News 0

Police have arrested and charged a man following a string of five shootings – all targeting homeless people as they slept. Gerald Brevard III, 30, allegedly struck five times in nine days in both New […]

Police are hunting a masked gunman targeting homeless people while they sleep

March 15, 2022 World Justice News 0

A masked gunman has struck five times in nine days – shooting homeless people as they slept on the streets of New York and Washington DC. Police say the “modus operandi” is the same in […]

Ghislaine Maxwell: Juror admits ‘mistake’ not revealing abuse

March 9, 2022 World Justice News 0

A juror in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial has told a hearing it was an “inadvertent mistake”, not a lie, to fail to disclose on a questionnaire that he was an abuse victim himself. Maxwell […]

Judge rules Donald Trump must testify in New York investigation

February 17, 2022 World Justice News 0

Former US President Donald Trump and two of his children must answer questions under oath in a New York investigation into their business practices, a judge has ruled. New York’s attorney general has accused the […]

Human Rights

Judge dismisses criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

May 23, 2026 0

A US judge has dismissed the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported to a megaprison in El Salvador last year. Abrego Garcia, whose deportation became a major flashpoint in the debate […]

Australia

Australia court doubles payout for trans woman in landmark discrimination case

May 17, 2026 0

A Sydney court has doubled the discrimination payout for an Australian trans woman who was kicked off a female-only app. It comes almost two years after Roxanne Tickle successfully sued Sall Grover, founder of the […]

Human Rights

War criminal Mladic close to death, say lawyers asking judge for jail release

May 3, 2026 0

Lawyers acting for convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic are awaiting a decision by a UN court on their bid to release him from jail in The Hague on the grounds he is near […]