A federal judge has temporarily blocked Montana from enforcing its election-deepfake law against one PAC, finding it likely to succeed on a First Amendment viewpoint-discrimination claim.
Apple and civil-liberties groups are challenging Britain’s refusal to confirm a reported order seeking access to UK users’ encrypted cloud data, raising questions about both encryption security and secret surveillance powers.
House Democrats are seeking to block the US-Saudi civil nuclear agreement, focusing scrutiny on why Riyadh has not accepted the no-enrichment and no-reprocessing restrictions agreed by the UAE.
Amazon has joined the frontier-AI safety debate, backing rigorous testing and strong safeguards while stopping short of calls to slow the pace of development.
A bipartisan Senate bill would let Americans sue when federal officials coerce private companies into suppressing protected speech, applying the same First Amendment principle across administrations.
Austria’s parliament has debated banning political Islam while the government develops its own prohibition, forcing lawmakers to define where protected Islamic belief ends and anti-democratic Islamism begins.
The EU has reportedly asked China to keep Chinese hybrid sales to around 15% of its market, raising a fundamental question about consumer choice, industrial capacity and managed trade.
The NCA has brought its first charge under a new offence targeting online promotion of unlawful immigration services, testing an enforcement strategy designed to intervene before an illegal journey occurs.
German prosecutors say a 24-year-old alleged ISIS supporter had recruited another person, obtained a firearm and scouted a Bremen church intended as the first target of a proposed terrorist group.
Morocco and Israel will open embassies and exchange ambassadors, deepening normalisation while a final Israeli-Palestinian settlement remains unresolved.
