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The Supreme Court decided to hear arguments about whether kids born on US soil automatically become citizens, which stems from Trump trying to reinterpret the 14th Amendment. His executive order, back when he started his second term, said the government should stop giving citizenship documents...

Human Rights Watch called out armed groups in Putumayo for terrorizing civilians, with Indigenous people getting hit the hardest. The groups are basically using peace negotiations as a cover to tighten their grip on the region near Ecuador and Peru. Locals told HRW they got forced to bury murder...

The Faroe Islands just barely passed a law letting people get abortions on request during the first twelve weeks. Parliament voted 17 to 16 to ditch their super-restrictive 1956 rules that only allowed terminations for rape, incest, health emergencies, or fetal issues. The autonomous Danish...

Trump gave a pardon to Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar and his wife after they got hit with bribery charges last year. Federal prosecutors said the couple took roughly $600,000 from an Azerbaijani state-owned energy firm and a Mexican bank, laundering it through shell companies while Cuellar...

A Libyan prison boss got hauled before the ICC after Germany grabbed him on an arrest warrant. Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri ran the Mitiga facility near Tripoli and stands accused of a dozen counts split between war crimes and crimes against humanity for stuff that went down between early 2015...

Human Rights Watch is calling out French President Emmanuel Macron to stop treating human rights like some separate checkbox when dealing with China. The group wants him to integrate rights concerns into broader policy talks during his visit to Beijing, specifically addressing forced labor in...

Violence keeps hitting religious communities across Nigeria, and the country's legal protections aren't doing much to stop it. Armed groups linked to Boko Haram and ISWAP have been attacking churches, schools, and civilians in the Middle Belt and northern regions. Last month, militants grabbed...

Human Rights Watch is freaking out about what might happen at the 2026 World Cup after ICE grabbed an asylum seeker who showed up to watch the Club World Cup final in New Jersey with his family. The guy got busted for accidentally flying a drone near the stadium, which normally just gets you...

Australia just forced social media platforms to start reporting how many under-16 accounts they ban each month after passing a law that kicks kids off major sites. The Online Safety Amendment hits Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Snapchat, and Reddit with fines up to 50 million...

A Kenyan parliamentary committee dropped a massive report accusing British troops of sexual violence, environmental damage, and general misconduct spanning multiple decades near their training bases. The two-year investigation heard testimony from communities around Laikipia and Samburu...

Apple just hired Jennifer Newstead away from Meta to replace Kate Adams as general counsel, and she's starting the transition process before officially taking over the legal team. Newstead spent over six years running legal stuff at Meta and previously worked at the State Department, plus Davis...

Netflix pulled off the Warner Bros. Discovery buyout with help from Skadden, while Wachtell and Debevoise repped WBD on the other side of the table. The deal values each WBD share at $27.75 through a mix of cash and Netflix stock, and the whole thing clocks in around $82.7 billion total...

Netflix just dropped $82.7 billion to buy Warner Bros. and HBO, which is the biggest deal they've ever done and basically turns them into a media monster overnight. The streaming giant went from mailing DVDs in red envelopes back in the late 90s to owning a century's worth of Hollywood history...

Senegal's culture minister showed up at the Place du Souvenir Africain and opened some fancy digital creation pavilions for ECOFEST 2025, and Amadou Ba spent the whole speech pushing how tech can basically save West African culture from irrelevance. The setup has wild gear like 360-degree rooms...

Economist Felwine Sarr showed up at the Museum of Black Civilisations in Dakar and basically told everyone that shipping African art back from Europe is way more complicated than just moving stuff around. He argued that museums need to completely rethink how they display returned pieces because...

Two guys got busted trying to jack cattle in Bakau Newtown and ended up locked at Mile II after their court appearance. Kabir Babu and Babucarr Mangan both admitted they planned the heist and attempted to pull it off using a vehicle, and prosecutors say they were gonna sell the animals...

Phone makers might actually bring back microSD card slots because DRAM prices are getting absolutely destroyed right now, and some Chinese suppliers are apparently talking about it. Memory costs have doubled since the start of the year, with 12GB of LPDDR5X hitting around $70 per unit, which...

NVIDIA just dropped the dates for GTC 2026, and Jensen Huang is doing his keynote on March 16 in San Jose. The company posted details on its site saying the event kicks off on March 15 with workshops covering CUDA libraries and robotics stuff, but the real action will be around AI infrastructure...

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond just dropped for both Switch consoles after getting rebooted partway through development when Bandai Namco's version wasn't cutting it, and Retro Studios had to start over from scratch. The game was announced back at E3 2017 for the original Switch, but it took forever to...

OneXPlayer is prepping a gaming handheld called the X1 that runs Intel's Core Ultra 5 338H chip, and it just showed up on Geekbench with 32 gigs of RAM. The processor packs 12 cores split between performance, efficiency, and low-power variants, plus an Arc B370 integrated GPU with 10 Xe3 cores...