Author: News Desk

Today a federal jury in the Southern District of West Virginia convicted a West Virginia man for aggravated sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, between September 2006 and December 2006, Dustin Stover Bowles sexually abused a minor known to him while he […]

The Justice Department announced today the settlement of United States v. David Montanus and Lisa Montanus, the first lawsuit filed by the Civil Rights Division to enforce the Housing Rights Subpart of the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (VAWA), 34 U.S.C. § 12495. The Justice Department’s lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court […]

Fabrizia Falcione, UNFPA Country Representative in Sudan, briefed journalists in New York on a recent assessment based on 95 focus group discussions across 16 out of 18 states. Roughly 1,000 women girls participated and 76 per cent of those aged 25 to 49 “reported feeling unsafe in the displacement camps and sites, but also outside […]

The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division announced the following actions from across the country to hold individuals accountable for schemes that attempted or succeeded in defrauding the American taxpayers out of over $340 million. “The National Fraud Enforcement Division is committed to prosecuting anyone who steals from American taxpayers. Over the past seven days […]

The update came on Friday, in a release by the World Food Programme (WFP), which has been working with the government and partners to assist 2.7 million people in Haiti by providing emergency food assistance, school meals, social protection programmes, and assistance to smallholder farmers. “These small improvements to food security numbers must not lead […]

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (Agencies) hereby extend the period for receiving public comments on their inquiry for consideration of guidance on collaborations among competitors, that was announced on Feb. 23, 2026.   The Agencies are extending the comment period deadline from April 24, 2026 to May 21, 2026 to […]

President Win Myint had been in jail since February 2021 when the military overthrew Myanmar’s democratically elected government in a coup, which sparked nationwide protests and subsequent armed resistance movements across the country. Other senior officials, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, remain behind bars. Release all detainees: Guterres In response to the developments, […]

A Chicago man was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in federal prison for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) by using social media to encourage attacks on ISIS’s enemies and recruit ISIS members. Ashraf Al Safoo was a leader of Khattab Media Foundation, a sophisticated online organization […]

At the request of the Lebanese Government, UNESCO placed 39 World Heritage sites in the country under so-called “enhanced protection”.   But what is “enhanced protection” and what can the UN agency do to help in times of war? To help answer these questions, UN News spoke to Krista Pikkat, Director of Culture and Emergencies Entity at UNESCO.  Living heritage under threat  UNESCO has repeatedly warned about the impact of the hostilities on the region’s very rich and […]

The Department of Justice’s U.S. Trustee Program (USTP) recently obtained a judgment requiring a nationwide consumer law firm to refund a total of $196,527 in legal fees to dozens of clients based on the firm’s deficient services and other violations of the Bankruptcy Code. On March 17, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of […]