US chief justice warns of ‘dangerous’ calls to disregard court rulings

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday warned about a rising number of threats to the judiciary’s independence, including calls for violence against judges and suggestions by elected officials to disregard court rulings they disagree with. Roberts in an annual year-end report on the judiciary released just weeks before Republican President-elect Donald Trump…

US imposes sanctions Iranian, Russian entities for 2024 election interference

The US imposed sanctions Tuesday on entities in Iran and Russia accusing them of attempting to interfere in the 2024 election, Anadolu Agency reports. The Treasury Department said the entities, a subsidiary of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and an organization affiliated with the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), “aimed to stoke socio-political tensions and…

Biden Imposes New Russia and Iran Sanctions Over 2024 Election Meddling

President Joe Biden’s administration has imposed new sanctions on Russian and Iranian entities, accusing them of attempting to interfere with the 2024 U.S. election, it announced Tuesday. The Treasury Department alleges that the organizations attempted to spread disinformation related to the presidential race. In a statement, the Treasury Department said that “these actors aimed to…

AI and Policing: 2024 in Review

There’s no part of your life now where you can avoid the onslaught of “artificial intelligence.” Whether you’re trying to search for a recipe and sifting through AI-made summaries or listening to your cousin talk about how they’ve fired their doctor and replaced them with a chatbot, it seems now, more than ever, that AI…

Fighting Online ID Mandates: 2024 In Review

This year, nearly half of U.S. states passed laws imposing age verification requirements on online platforms. EFF has opposed these efforts, because they censor the internet and burden access to online speech. Though age verification mandates are often touted as “online safety” measures for kids, the laws actually do more harm than good. They undermine…