A resident sued the City of La Mesa, Calif., claiming its use of public tax money to buy less-than-lethal weapons and deploy them against peaceful protesters in public places is unconstitutional, in San Diego Superior Court.
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A judge in Virginia’s capital denied a request for an injunction blocking the use of tear gas and enforcement of a controversial riot law against protesters in a case brought by ACLU.
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An Interior Department watchdog office will investigate law enforcement and security forces’ violent clearing of protesters from Lafayette Square in front of the White House earlier this month.
Read moreThe Montana Supreme Court reversed a man’s conviction of assault on a peace officer. The man thought he was pulling a prank on a friend when he aimed a broken BB gun out of his front door, but he actually aimed the gun at a police sergeant, who was there to tell him he had been banned from a casino. The man, who was sentenced to eight years in prison, did not use a “weapon” pursuant to state law.
Read moreFrance has accused Turkey of repeated violations of the U.N. arms embargo on conflict-torn Libya and says Ankara is an obstacle to securing a ceasefire there.
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The attorney for a man accused of plotting to shoot up a Florida mosque asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to throw out a related firearms conviction.
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Mass protests continued Wednesday in Portland, Oregon in the movement against police brutality sparked by the death of George Floyd, and a federal judge issued an injunction restraining Portland police from using tear gas against protesters for two weeks, unless necessary to save lives.
Read moreDon’t Shoot Portland, et al., filed a federal class action against Portland, Oregon in federal court, demanding that it stop using tear gas and other chemical weapons against protesters, as it’s particularly dangerous during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Czech Republic has expelled two Russian diplomats after a Russian embassy employee spread false information about a planned poison attack on three Prague politicians, officials said on Friday.
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They fly a mile a second or faster and maneuver in ways that make them extra difficult to detect and destroy in flight. And they are at the heart of Trump administration worries about China and Russia.
Read moreOklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed into law Tuesday a reclassification of several domestic abuse charges as violent crimes, even though an unrelated criminal justice reform ballot measure threatens to mitigate its effects.
Read moreAmplifying scrutiny on the recent firing of the State Department inspector general, one lawmaker revealed Monday that Steve Linick had been investigating not only Secretary Mike Pompeo but President Donald Trump as well.
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The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said Monday that it has received no evidence from the U.S. government to back up allegations by President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the coronavirus could have originated at a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
Read moreU.S. markets broke even on Monday as investors await hints about what the White House may do to retaliate against China over Covid-19.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday rejected U.S. arguments for fielding low-yield nuclear warheads, warning that an attempt to use such weapons against Russia would trigger an all-out nuclear retaliation.
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An attorney for the son of a former Albanian president asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to revive his defamation lawsuit against the author and publisher of a book behind the 2016 film “War Dogs,” claiming they falsely accused him of being a mobster who engaged in corrupt arms dealing.
Read moreThe European Union announced Tuesday the launch of a new naval mission in the Mediterranean Sea aimed at enforcing the U.N. arms embargo on Libya, after Italy blocked a previous operation claiming that the warships attracted migrants to Europe’s shores.
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As Russia’s share of the pie shrank, the United States increased arms exports by 23% in the last five years, helping to make Saudi Arabia the world’s largest arms importer, a Swedish peace group reported Monday.
Read moreNorth Korea fired two presumed short-range ballistic missiles into its eastern sea on Monday, South Korean officials said, resuming weapons demonstrations after a months-long hiatus that may have been forced by the coronavirus crisis in Asia.
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A counter-terrorism analyst at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency pleaded guilty on Thursday to leaking secret information to journalists, including details about foreign countries’ weapons systems.
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