3 h. ago Football fans letting off flares at matches could be banned from grounds under new laws

The Scottish Government is asking the public for its views on whether existing legislation should be updated to crack down on pyrotechnics use and other forms of disorder at stadiums.

Sport

41 h. ago Alcohol ban at Scottish football grounds: Everything you need to know about notorious law

Scots football fans are fed-up with a 45-year-old piece of legislation introduced by Margaret Thatcher's government.

Politics

8 d. ago Shootings of people who mistakenly go the wrong house test limits of stand your ground laws

The fatal shooting in early November of a house cleaner who mistakenly went to the wrong address in Indiana feels hauntingly familiar

Society

9 d. ago Republicans warn Bondi not to bury Epstein files after law’s passage

Senate majority leader, John Thune, and others push the attorney general to release Epstein records within 30 daysUS politics live – latest updatesWithin hours of Donald Trump signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, Republican senators were on the ground to issue a pointed message to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi: don’t bury these documents.The bill’s passage marked a rare moment of bipartisan support in an otherwise ideologically fractured Congress as it now sets a 30-day deadline for the release of Department of Justice files related to the actions of convicted sex offender of minors and financier Jeffrey Epstein, dubbed by a judge “the most infamous pedophile in American history”. Continue reading...

Events

9 d. ago Digitised official records of Nuremberg trials made available online

Launch on 80th anniversary of groundbreaking legal effort comes after 25-year project by Harvard law school libraryA fully digitised collection of the records of the Nuremberg trials is being launched online to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the groundbreaking legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice.Open access to every official document from the trial, held by the Harvard law school library, will be available to all researchers, whether amateur or professional, for the first time from Thursday after a 25-year endeavour by a 30-strong team of historians, metadata curators and librarians. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Florida gun owners can now open carry in the original stand your ground state – why this has experts worried

Open carry increases the visibility – and perceived legitimacy – of guns in everyday life

Politics

2 w. ago Australia's top court rejects Russia's challenge to embassy eviction

Australia’s highest court has rejected Russia's challenge to a law that evicted it on security grounds from a site where a new embassy was under construction

Events

3 w. ago British woman on Bali death row flies home on humanitarian grounds

Indonesia has some of the world’s toughest drug laws, but has moved to release more than half a dozen high-profile detainees in the last yearTwo British drug convicts including death row prisoner Lindsay Sandiford were repatriated from Indonesia on Friday, as part of a deal to return them on humanitarian grounds.Indonesia has some of the world’s toughest drug laws, but has moved to release more than half a dozen high-profile detainees in the last year. Continue reading...

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