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The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon extended its ban on the removal from the United States of Venezuelan men currently in immigration custody in the northern region of Texas. In an eight-page unsigned opinion, the justices sent the case back to a federal appeals court for another look and blocked the Trump administration from removing any of the men from the United States under an 18th-century wartime law until the appeals are resolved. The court instructed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to determine the kind of procedures to which detainees are entitled to challenge the removals. But…
Home Daily News Divorce lawyer accused of involvement in… Criminal Justice Divorce lawyer accused of involvement in fatal stabbing of client because he wanted trial delay By Debra Cassens Weiss May 5, 2025, 1:21 pm CDT A former Ohio lawyer has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of his divorce client outside his Cleveland office in March 2013. (Image from Shutterstock) A former Ohio lawyer has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of his divorce client outside his Cleveland office in March 2013, a crime said to have been orchestrated because the attorney wanted to delay…
Will the Covid 19 global pandemic happen again? Hopefully not…Amidst reports of a new Covid 19 wave spreading in Singapore and other parts of Asia, it leads the mind back to the height of the pandemic a few years ago. Dubai has seen many new expats move here after the pandemic, with 2024 being the highest increase in population since 2018, so you may not know how the city actually dealt with the it. Dubai was commended for dealing with the whole situation really well… 3 of 12 Early MeasuresDubai’s response to the pandemic was swift and the government implemented…
This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans. Sign up for The Brief Weekly to get up to speed on their essential coverage of Texas issues. Texas lawmakers are pushing to impose steep penalties on local governments that don’t post campaign finance reports online, after an investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found some school districts weren’t doing so. The initial posting requirements, designed to make election spending more transparent, went into effect nearly two years ago. Most of the school district leaders said they had no idea…
Israel’s military has announced the launch of a major offensive aimed at defeating Hamas and securing the freedom of remaining hostages in Gaza.The Israeli Defense Forces said on its Hebrew X account that it had mobilised troops for “Operation Gideon’s Chariots” to seize “strategic areas” of the strip.Hamas-run civil defence and health ministry officials say Israeli attacks have killed around 250 people since Thursday.Israel imposed an aid blockade on the strip in March after the breakdown of a two-month ceasefire. Donald Trump, the US president, said on Friday that “a lot of people were starving” in Gaza. The Israeli military…
Former FBI director James Comey met with the U.S. Secret Service on Friday, after he was called in to discuss a social media post that U.S. President Donald Trump’s supporters claimed was a threat against the president, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.Noem, in a post on X, said there was “an ongoing investigation” but gave no indication of whether Comey might be subject to further action.The Secret Service, which is in charge of presidential security and is part of the Department of Homeland Security, interviewed Comey at the Washington field office on Friday afternoon, according to a law…
The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon, asking the justices to temporarily block an order by a federal judge in San Francisco that bars the Trump administration from implementing an executive order and a related memorandum calling for large-scale reductions in the federal workforce – the elimination of jobs, followed by the transfer or firing of the employees who did those jobs. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the court that the order by Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has “caused mass confusion throughout the Executive Branch.” “Neither Congress nor the Executive Branch has ever intended…
Home Daily News Trump’s first judicial pick of second term… Judiciary Trump’s first judicial pick of second term has clerked ‘for a full third’ of Supreme Court’s justices By Debra Cassens Weiss May 5, 2025, 3:34 pm CDT Whitney Hermandorfer of the Tennessee attorney general’s office speaks before a panel of judges April 4, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee. She has been nominated to be a judge on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati. (Photo by George Walker IV/The Associated Press) President Donald Trump has announced his first judicial nominee of his second term. Trump announced last week…
Scroll through the gallery for all the highlights of the day…The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump was in Abu Dhabi in the UAE on May 15, 2025, for his first formal overseas visit since taking over the office this year. 3 of 12 US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IN UAE – QASR AL WATANUS President Donald Trump received a grand royal welcome in Abu Dhabi. An honour guard was assembled, a 21-gun salute was fired in tribute to the visit, and groups of children waving the flags of both nations lined the ceremonial route | Photo credit:…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Days after President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term, the acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency sent an email to the entire workforce with details about the agency’s plans to close diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and included a plea for help. “Employees are requested to please notify” the EPA or the Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s human resources agency, “of any other agency office, sub-unit, personnel position description, contract, or program…