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Supreme Court justices should get term limits and an enforceable standard of ethics requiring recusal in conflicts of interest.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says a state lawmaker accused of sexual harassment by several women should give “serious thought” to resigning

Laura Trott urges the prime minister’s ethics adviser to open an investigation

A Justice Department watchdog found one of the nation’s most prolific federal narcotics prosecutors flouted ethics rules last year when he drunkenly handed his business card to Florida police investigating a hit-and-run crash

A review of former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's alleged ethics violations has been closed after his resignation took effect on Tuesday.

The societal implications of this technology are still vast. And researchers can already start exploring the ethics by engaging communities well ahead of time.

With their primary goal to advance scientific knowledge, most scientists are not trained or incentivized to think through the societal implications of the technologies they are developing. Even in genomic medicine, which is geared toward benefiting future patients, time and funding pressures make real-time ethics oversight difficult.

Thailand’s Constitutional Court has dissolved the country’s largest opposition party and official winner of the 2023 general election, Move Forward. The same court has now dismissed Thailand’s prime minister, Srettha Thavisin, in an ethics case for appointing a cabinet minister who was once jailed.

The party of Thailand's billionaire ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra meets on Thursday to choose a candidate for prime minister, a day after the kingdom's top court dismissed incumbent premier Srettha Thavisin over an ethics violation.