Final charge dropped in yearslong Harris-era case against pro-life activist

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A California judge on Wednesday cleared the final legal hurdle in the long-running prosecution of a pro-life activist who alleged in undercover videos that abortion providers were illegally profiting from fetal tissue. “As promised, the final charge has been DISMISSED and the case completely expunged— —after a … Read more

Activist Mahmoud Khalil wants ex-Justice Department official off panel of judges weighing his appeal

NEW YORK — Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student fighting deportation, have asked Judge Emil Bove to step aside from an appellate panel that could weigh in on his case because of Bove’s previous role as a top Justice Department official involved in investigating student protesters. Khalil’s lawyers this week asked … Read more

Activist ship’s collision with krill trawler off Antarctica called “deliberate attack”

A ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson collided with an industrial krill trawler in Antarctica in what the ship’s Norwegian owner said was a “deliberate attack” that endangered its crew and could’ve caused a disaster in the same environmentally sensitive waters the activists claim they want to protect. A two-minute … Read more

Pro-Palestinian activist filed lawsuit alleging threats weeks before foiled firebomb plot

A pro-Palestinian activist whose home was the target of a foiled firebombing plot had previously filed a federal lawsuit accusing a far-right pro-Israel group of orchestrating threats and intimidation against her. Weeks before authorities arrested a New Jersey man accused of plotting a Molotov cocktail attack on her home, activist Nerdeen Kiswani filed a lawsuit … Read more

Anti-apartheid activist, human rights campaigner and UN diplomat Nicholas Haysom dies at age 73

UNITED NATIONS — Nicholas Haysom, a white South African anti-apartheid activist who was tapped by prisoner-turned-president Nelson Mandela to help draft the country’s new constitution that enshrined equal rights for Black people, minorities and white people, has died at 73. Haysom went on from high-level positions promoting human rights in his home country to a … Read more

Many work to reconcile César Chavez’s labor rights activist legacy with sexual abuse allegations

PHOENIX — Mary Rose Wilcox and her husband marched and fasted alongside César Chavez. They helped him open a radio station in Phoenix and plastered their Mexican restaurant with photos and a mural of the widely admired Latino icon. So when Wilcox’s daughter called this week to inform them of sexual abuse allegations that were … Read more

Biden-appointed judge twice shut down by SCOTUS faces ‘activist’ fire after latest Trump policy block

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Biden-appointed federal judge who drew Supreme Court intervention twice in a separate deportation case is facing fresh conservative backlash after temporarily blocking Trump administration vaccine policies on Monday. Judge Brian Murphy’s ruling in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts was the latest in a string of … Read more

Tourists, expats and influencers detained in UAE over digital content showing Iran war impacts, activist says

A growing number of social media users, including foreigners, are facing charges in the United Arab Emirates under the Gulf state’s broad cybercrime laws for sharing or possessing digital content that depicts or comments on the impact of ongoing Iranian attacks, the advocacy group Detained in Dubai has warned. The arrests highlight the strict regulations … Read more

Crockett’s likely House successor is radical reparations activist: ‘Gotta pay us what you owe us’

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jasmine Crockett’s pastor, Frederick Haynes III, who announced his bid to take over Crockett’s House seat shortly after she announced her now-failed bid for the U.S. Senate, won the Democratic primary for Texas’s 30th Congressional District and will likely win in November due to the district being … Read more