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Home Daily News Wanted: Temporary immigration judges, no… Immigration Law Wanted: Temporary immigration judges, no experience necessary By Debra Cassens Weiss September 4, 2025, 8:57 am CDT Jennifer Peyton, a former assistant chief immigration judge in Chicago, said the lawyers being brought in as temporary judges can’t be brought up to speed without appropriate training. (Photo by Laura Bargfeld/The Associated Press) The U.S. Department of Justice is fighting a backlog of immigration cases by rolling back restrictions on who can be hired as temporary immigration judges and filling some of the positions with military lawyers. Under a final rule published…
Restaurants in the UAE that make us feel at homeThese are the restaurants the What’s On team turns to when we’re missing home, the restaurants that serve up more than just food but memories too.Liam Joyce, EditorPortugal and South AfricaDubai: Nando’s When the craving for flame-grilledchicken hits, there’s really only one answer: Nando’s. The South Africanborn Afro-Portuguese inspired brand (just like me) has become a global favourite, but there’s something special about sitting down to a plate of peri-peri chicken here in Dubai. Maybe it’s the mix of spice levels (from lemon and herb to extra hot, depending on your bravery),…
Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced he is stepping down after less than a year in the role, following two major election losses. The move comes a day before his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was expected to vote on whether to hold an internal leadership vote that could have forced him out.The LDP has governed Japan for almost seven decades, but under Ishiba it lost its majority in the lower house for the first time in 15 years and then lost its majority in the upper house in July.Japan, the world’s fourth-largest economy and a key US ally, now…
The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the president’s authority to impose tariffs under a 1977 law giving him certain emergency powers. The request came five days after a federal appeals court in Washington struck down the majority of the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump since February in a series of executive orders. Telling the justices that“[t]he stakes in this case could not be higher,” U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the justices to review the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and to do so on…
Home Daily News In 3 hours, jury finds Donna Adelson guilty… Criminal Justice In 3 hours, jury finds Donna Adelson guilty of murder By Debra Cassens Weiss September 4, 2025, 10:43 am CDT Florida Second Judicial Circuit Judge Stephen Everett is presiding over Donna Adelson’s murder trial. (Photo by Alicia Devine/The Tallahassee Democrat via the Associated Press) Updated: Donna Adelson, the former mother-in-law of Dan Markel, was found guilty Thursday of murdering the Florida State University College of Law professor. Adelson, 75, is convicted of first-degree murder, conspiracy and solicitation, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. The jury deliberated for three hours,…
Cable outages in the Red Sea have severely affected internet service across the UAE and wider Middle East…Over the long weekend, internet service across the UAE has been reduced, slowed and in some cases stopped working completely, with users across both du and Etisalat reporting internet issues.As per The National, the reason for slow internet across the UAE is due to ‘a series of cable outages in the Red Sea’ on Saturday, September 6, which has impacted internet use not just in the UAE, but across the Middle East. The issues arose when Microsoft’s Azure cloud, the world’s second-largest cloud…
At least two people have been killed and 11 injured in a new Russian overnight drone attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, local officials have said.One of the victims was a one-year-old baby, whose body was pulled from the rubble, Kyiv’s military administration head Tymur Tkachenko said Sunday. A young woman is also believed to have been killed.Russian strikes were also targeted at Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown in central Ukraine, where three infrastructure facilities were hit. Air raid warnings were activated overnight for all of the country’s regions.The fresh attack came as Russian President Vladimir Putin has been hardening…
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Recommended Citation: Zachary Shemtob, The morning read for Friday, September 5, SCOTUSblog (Sep. 5, 2025, 9:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/the-morning-read-for-friday-september-5/ Source link
Home Daily News ‘Strapped’ former BigLaw associate is arrested… Criminal Justice ‘Strapped’ former BigLaw associate is arrested for alleged confrontation with National Guard members By Debra Cassens Weiss September 4, 2025, 1:27 pm CDT National Guard troops stand guard near the Metropolitan Detention Center on June 9 in downtown Los Angeles. (Photo by Eric Thayer/The Associated Press) A fired Covington & Burling associate was arrested last week for allegedly thrusting his shoulder into a member of the National Guard and making threatening statements to other National Guard members patrolling Washington, D.C. Former associate Paul Anthony Bryant was first in the…
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