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Home Daily News Once-homeless University of Chicago law grad… Homelessness Once-homeless University of Chicago law grad getting treatment, hopes to return to law practice By Debra Cassens Weiss March 19, 2025, 12:41 pm CDT A University of Chicago Law School graduate who lived for two years on the streets of Los Angeles has moved back home with his mother in Virginia and hopes to resume law practice. (Image from Shutterstock) A University of Chicago Law School graduate who lived for two years on the streets of Los Angeles has moved back home with his mother in Virginia and hopes to…

You only have four days to see it… It’s that time of year when Dubai becomes a canvas of colour with back-to-back art festivals and events taking place across the city. Culture vultures, we know that you’re probably really busy already with the line-up, but we’re here to add another to your list: DIFC Arts Night. 3 of 12 That’s right, the DIFC-based art festival is back this year celebrating all things arts and culture. Now in its 19th edition, DIFC Arts Night is a key event in Dubai’s art and culture calendar, which means you can’t skip it. Visitors can…

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Verite News. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Reporting Highlights Limiting Parole: A new law pushed by Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that prevents thousands of prisoners from early release. Immutable Risk Score: The risk assessment tool, TIGER, does not take into account efforts prisoners make to rehabilitate themselves. Instead, it focuses on factors that cannot be changed. Racial Bias: Civil rights attorneys say the new law…

Will GrantMexico, Central America and Cuba CorrespondentReporting from Santo DomingoGetty ImagesMáximo Peña had been coming to the Jet Set nightclub every single Monday for the past 30 years.This week, excited to see a concert by the popular Dominican singer Rubby Pérez, he took his wife and his sister. Now all three are buried beneath the rubble of the collapsed discotheque, after the roof caved in part way through the performance, leaving at least 184 dead.”I haven’t heard any news about any of them,” says Shailyn Peña, Máximo’s 17-year-old daughter as she sits on a wall outside the devastated venue.”It was…

As It Happens6:34’Never give up’: These baseball teams have both finally snapped a combined 141-game losing streakTwo of the longest losing streaks in college baseball history came to an end on Tuesday when Yeshiva University and Lehman College squared off in a thrilling doubleheader in Teaneck, N.J.Lehman College, a public institution in New York City’s Bronx neighbourhood, had been stuck in a 42-game losing streak. The Lightning men’s baseball team hadn’t won a game since May 9, 2023, when they defeated New York’s Baruch College. But in the first game of Tuesday’s doubleheader, Lehman broke their streak with a hard-fought 7-6…

EMERGENCY DOCKET By Amy Howe on Apr 9, 2025 at 6:17 pm (Katie Barlow) Calling the situation “untenable,” the Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon, asking the justices to block orders by federal judges in Washington, D.C., that instructed government officials to allow board members at two independent agencies to remain in office despite President Donald Trump’s attempts to fire them. Soon after, Chief Justice John Roberts issued an administrative stay, which put those orders on hold while the justices consider the government’s request, and called for a response by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15.…

Home Daily News Meet the federal judge labeled ‘radical left… Judiciary Meet the federal judge labeled ‘radical left lunatic’ by Trump, derided by DOJ for ‘micromanaged’ request By Debra Cassens Weiss March 20, 2025, 8:50 am CDT Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of the District of Columbia stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C., on March 16, 2023. (Photo by Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images) A federal judge facing President Donald Trump’s ire because of his rulings on deportation authority was once a housemate with Brett Kavanaugh, a future…

The stars of Abu Dhabi’s hospitality industry were all in attendance… 3 of 12 In the presence of some of the grandest names on Abu Dhabi’s food, beverage, leisure, lifestyle and entertainment scene, the What’s On Abu Dhabi Awards 2025 was a huge success, on the terrace of the Hilton Abu Dhabi Yas Island on the evening of Tuesday, April 9.For those that couldn’t join us it, here are a few glimpses from the celebration that was… > Sign up for FREE to get exclusive updates that you are interested in Source link

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. This piece was originally published in Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country. Sign up to receive our stories in your inbox every week. When Edgar Barrientos-Quintana left prison last November, he told reporters: “Happy to be out here. … It’s the best week. And more to come.” It was an understated moment from a man who had been in prison for close to 16 years for a murder that officials said he didn’t commit. And it provided a stark contrast to the reality television show that depicted…

President Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause for countries hit by higher US tariffs, but escalated a spiralling trade war with China. In a dramatic change of policy, just hours after levies against roughly 60 of America’s trading partners came into effect, Trump said he was authorising a universal “lowered reciprocal tariff of 10%” while negotiations continued.At the same time he increased tariffs on goods from China to 125%, accusing Beijing of a “lack of respect”, after it had retaliated by saying it would impose tariffs of 84% on US imports. This comes a week after Trump announced import…