A French senator has been preliminarily charged with drugging a female lawmaker with ecstasy in order to rape her, the public prosecutor’s office said Friday. Joël Guerriau, 66, a member of the center-right Horizons party, was arrested Thursday, two days after fellow
Two Finnish Christian leaders have beaten hate speech charges filed against them for the second time. Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen – a 62-year-old medical doctor and grandmother of seven – and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola were again found not guilty of
Iraq’s top court ruled Tuesday that the speaker and a rival lawmaker should be ousted from Parliament, following a high-profile feud between the two men. The Federal Supreme Court said in a statement it decided to terminate Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi’s membership in
Polish police briefly detained an opposition Polish lawmaker on Tuesday, violating her parliamentary immunity, after she interrupted a campaign speech by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Critics of Morawiecki’s right-wing government denounced the behavior of police, calling it an example of the deterioration
Riley Gaines responded to a social media post from a Nebraska state lawmaker on Monday who criticized the former NCAA swim star over her speech about fairness in women’s sports. Gaines spoke at an event organized by Patriot Productions, according to the
A Texas lawmaker slammed protests that erupted at the ceremonial signing of the Save Women’s Sports Act at Texas Women’s University in Denton last week, calling demands for tolerance amid heated demonstrations a “horrific hypocrisy.” Republican state Sen. Tan Parker, a co-author
A brawl broke out in Kosovo’s parliament Thursday after a lawmaker in the opposition party walked up to the podium where the prime minister was speaking and doused him with water. Prime Minister Albin Kurti had been speaking on efforts to defuse
A British lawmaker accused of drunkenly groping two men at a private members’ club should be suspended from Parliament for eight weeks for “completely unacceptable” conduct, a standards watchdog said Thursday. The ruling will likely result in Chris Pincher being ejected from
RA Democratic Delegate had to rapidly correct herself after saying live on MSNBC on Sunday (June 18) that former President Donald Trump ‘needs to be shot’. Stacey Plaskett, a non-voting member of the House who represents the U.S. Virgin Islands, was speaking
Canadian Member of Parliament Jenny Kwan, who was born in Hong Kong, told reporters Monday that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) informed her during a classified briefing Friday that she is and will forever remain an “evergreen” target of the Chinese