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The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s threatened tariffs on countries that send oil to Cuba, but the crisis persists. Donald Trump issued an executive order on January 29 aimed at tightening the U.S. noose around Cuba’s neck.

US armed forces’ seizure of the oil tanker constituted an unlawful use of force in violation of the UN Charter. This is the largest military buildup of US firepower in the Caribbean in decades. If regime change succeeds in Venezuela, Cuba may be next

SCOTUS stripped federal judges of their authority to protect people throughout the US when the president breaks the law.

Vietnamese and US descendants of those exposed to Agent Orange continue to face diseases and congenital anomalies. Just compensation for victims of Agent Orange is a moral imperative.

Trump’s appeal will decide how the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling applies to his hush money case.

British law prohibits extradition to a country that may impose capital punishment. The indictment would punish conduct that national security journalists routinely engage in; no publisher has ever been prosecuted for disclosing government secrets....

In her defense of voting rights, Jackson brilliantly turned the tables on the right by crafting her own originalist argument to defend taking race into account when drawing district maps.

Most of the Palestinian human rights groups that were ransacked on August 18 have been in Israel’s crosshairs since last October, when Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz baselessly declared that Israel had designated six of those groups under its 2016 Counter Terrorism Law as “terrorist organizations”

The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol presented overwhelming evidence — nearly all from Trump loyalists — that Trump committed at least two federal crimes, as well as criminal offenses in the state of Georgia.

The court’s decision sends an ominous signal that it will use the major questions doctrine to strike down other regulations that limit corporate profits.