The US District Court of Northern California gave final approval on Thursday for Volkswagen’s settlement related to cheating on the emissions of their 3.0-liter vehicles sold in the US. The settlement requires Volkswagen to pay at least $1.22 billion to buy back or fix 80,000 3.0-liter vehicles. Owners of the vehicles will receive between $7,000 [...]
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday issued a new charging policy urging prosecutors to seek the largest sentences for each crime. This reverses the past administrations policy regarding drug related crimes. The so-called Holder Memo had been issued to urge that prosecutors to not seek the longer sentences for people charged with drug crimes [...]
Former congresswoman Corrine Brown was convicted of fraud on Thursday. Brown represented the Jacksonville, Florida district from 1993 to 2017 as part of the Democratic party. She had lost re-election last fall after her indictment. Brown was convicted of 18 out of 22 charges related to the misuse of funds from the charity One Door [...]
The North Korean legislature on Friday sent a letter to the US House of Representatives protesting new sanctions raised against the country. The letter is a rare communication between the two nations, who do not have any formal ways to communicate. The letter stated , “As the U.S. House of Representatives enacts more and more [...]
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday designed to strengthen IT and cyber security frameworks in the country by having agency heads manage security risks and modernize the IT infrastructure. The order also mandates the use of the National Institute of Standards and Technology framework to manage risks and a creation of a [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Thursday issued a non-binding opinion finding that Uber is a transportation company subject to additional regulations and fines. Uber presented itself as technology services that uses infrastructure to provide transportation. But a Spanish taxi union argued the description gave Uber an unfair tactical advantage because the company was [...]
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday launching a commission to investigate allegations of voter fraud and suppression. Vice President Mike Pence will head the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity along with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach , a voter identification advocate with a tough stance on immigration. The panel will consist of [...]
Connecticut Governor Danial Malloy on Wednesday signed into a law a measure to ban gay conversion therapy. House Bill 6695 was passed by the legislature to end the practice of using various measures in order to force people to disavow their same sex orientation. The Governor immediately signed the bill to stop the controversial practice. [...]
Moon Jae-in was sworn in as the 19th President of South Korea on Wednesday, later that day seeking international assistance on North Korean weapons threats. Moon had a phone call with US President Donald Trump focusing on the threat of nuclear attack from North Korea. Trump invited Moon to the Washington to discuss the issue [...]
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued a subpoena Wednesday compelling former National Security Adviser Lieutenant General Michael Flynn to provide documents related to the committee’s investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election. In a joint statement from Chairman Senator Richard Burr and Vice Chairman Senator Mark Warner, the committee says that the [...]
