Will Racke A New York state lawmaker proposed a bill to make it a hate crime to call 911 on people of color without any valid suspicion that they are engaging in criminal activity. State Democratic Sen. Jesse Hamilton’s proposal would add to existing prohibitions on false 911 reports by designating racially motivated calls as…
Grace Carr Nine states have laws banning abortion that would become effective if Roe V. Wade is overturned, and four states have laws intended to ban abortion should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn the legal right to abort. Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wisconsin have laws that were passed…
Molly Prince Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska slammed the state of Colorado on Wednesday for infringing upon the First Amendment in order to promulgate a political agenda. “You don’t get to choose which parts of the First Amendment you like,” Sasse said in a press release. “Using the state to put someone out of business…
A man the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation identified as David–a pseudonym–is saving $91 every month on his car insurance. No, he didn’t switch to Geico. All it took was for David to identify as a woman on government forms. “I have taken advantage of a loophole,” said David, who reportedly is in his early 20s and…
Chris White The Nevada rancher who led a standoff with the federal government nearly four years ago is vowing to fight the Department of Justice’s move to appeal a judge’s decision to dismiss an indictment against the man. Larry Klayman, legal counsel for Cliven Bundy, issued a statement on behalf of Bundy vowing to fight…
Nick Givas Pope Francis is steering the Catholic church away from supporting the death penalty in a new papal policy released on Thursday. Francis called the death penalty “inadmissible” and said it “attacks” the dignity of all humans, according to The Associated Press. Francis is making a major change to the faith’s Catechism, as Catholicism used to…
Grace Carr Ecuador and the U.K. have resumed discussions about the status of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has resided at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012. BBC News reported Friday that leaders of the two countries are discussing Assange’s fate. Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno, however, made it clear that he never condoned Assange’s activities and…
Vandana Rambaran A Vietnamese court ruled Friday that an American citizen who was detained overseas and convicted for participating in a protest in June will be deported back to the U.S. William Nguyen, a 35-year-old Houston resident who graduated from Yale University was arrested on June 10 by Vietnamese police in Ho Chi Minh. He was protesting…
One of the most popularly cited silly laws in my home state is a prohibition on crossing state lines with a duck atop one’s head. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on whether you see it from the perspective of the duck or the individual wearing said duck, this so-called law is bogus. An urban legend. There are,…
By Dries Van Thielen What a weekend! A bunch of new names crawled out of the woodwork to join the Libertarian Party over the weekend when the Libertarian National Convention hosted an event in New Orleans. First and foremost, former professor of History and host of the influential podcast that bears his name, Tom Woods,…