10 July 2023 ( Reuters ) A UN mission of experts arrived in Honduras to examine the establishment of an international anti-corruption mission in the Central American nation, which is plagued by widespread corruption that exacerbates poverty and immigration, Honduran authorities announced Sunday. Leftist President Xiomara Castro pledged...
09 July 2023 ( The Guardian ) Labour will restore the UK’s tarnished global reputation by backing a global anti-corruption court and by reinstating a requirement to follow international law in the ministerial code, the shadow foreign secretary will say in a speech on Monday. David Lammy says...
09 July 2023 ( Barrons More than 50 officials will go on trial in Vietnam on Tuesday for alleged corruption over repatriation flights during the Covid-19 pandemic, a scandal that has seen several senior ministers fired. The case is part of a major anti-corruption drive that led to...
09 July 2023 ( The Guardian ) The supreme court has concluded another term that upended Americans’ lives. Last week, the court’s conservative supermajority ruled against race-conscious decisions in college admissions, overturning decades of precedent supporting affirmative action. A day later, the six conservative justices both struck down Joe Biden’s student debt...
03 July 2023 ( PBS.ORG ) Lebanon has become, for all intents and purposes, a failed state. Its government is rife with corruption and unable to care for its people who suffer chronic and crushing poverty from economic mismanagement and a banking collapse. As special correspondent Leila...
25 June 2023 ( Washington Post ) Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has been arguing for years that a flood of “dark money” flowing through right-wing front groups has corrupted the Supreme Court. Never has there been more evidence to bolster his claim. Whitehouse (D-R.I.) told me in an extensive...
29 June 2023 ( The Hill ) Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder (R) has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for leading a $61 million corruption scheme. Householder received the maximum sentence for accepting a bribe from utility company FirstEnergy to pass legislation friendly to the company, including...
30 June 2023 ( APNews ) Lawmakers in the Delaware House of Representatives have approved legislation authorizing a small town in the southern part of the state to allow business entities, including corporations and limited liability companies, to vote in municipal elections. Lawmakers voted 35-6 on Friday for...
30 June 2023 ( CBSNews ) The state of Delaware is famously business-friendly. With more than 1.8 million entities registered in the First State, companies outnumber its human residents by nearly two-to-one. One city is now moving to raise businesses' influence in the state even further, with a proposal to...
27 June 2023 ( InsightCrime ) It was around 9 p.m. on June 25 when amid the bustling of TV crews and politicians gathered at a dystopian hotel on the outskirts of Guatemala City, it became apparent the country’s presidential election had gone off script. Against all...