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A judge in Wisconsin has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after allegedly trying to help an undocumented immigrant who appeared in her court avoid arrest. FBI agents took Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan into custody on Friday morning, officials said.In a post on X, which was deleted minutes later, FBI Director Kash Patel alleged that Dugan allowed Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican national facing three misdemeanour battery counts stemming from a fight, to escape from her courtroom.Dugan was charged with obstruction and concealing an individual to avoid arrest, and faces a maximum of six years in prison…
Buea, (ABS News) – In a major turning point for the Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) Liberation Struggle, leaders and heads of movements have signed a historic leadership pact pledging unity, accountability, and coordinated action to end the ongoing war and secure a free and independent Ambazonia.The agreement, known as the Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) Leadership Pact, was unanimously adopted on April 18, 2025, during a high-level summit convened under the auspices of the Consultative Commission for the Transition to a Democratic Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) held in Africa. The summit ran from April 17–20 under the theme “Laying the Foundation of a Shared…
BALTIMORE (ABS News) — A federal grand jury in Baltimore has indicted Eric Tataw, a Cameroonian national residing in Maryland for allegedly conspiring to support violent separatist militias in Cameroon and threatening civilians overseas through social media.Eric Tataw, 38, of Gaithersburg, Maryland — known online as “the Garri Master” — surrendered to authorities and was scheduled to make his initial appearance today (Friday, April 25) before U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Mark Coulson.According to court documents, Tataw is accused of coordinating and financially supporting armed separatists known as the “Amba Boys,” and of inciting and directing violent acts, including the maiming…
Reuters has seen the text of a set of proposals to end Russia’s war in Ukraine that were presented to European officials by U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff at talks in Paris on April 17.Witkoff was in Moscow on Friday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, just over a day after U.S. President Donald Trump publicly implored Putin to stop bombing Ukraine after several civilians were killed in Kyiv airstrikes.But at other points early in his second term as president, Trump has directed his ire at Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy as the White House seeks to end what the U.S. president has…
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Thursday, April 24, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 24, 2025, 10:29 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/the-morning-read-for-thursday-april-24/ Source link
Home Daily News McElroy Deutsch settles suit claiming over… Law Firms McElroy Deutsch settles suit claiming over $3M embezzlement by former executives By Debra Cassens Weiss April 15, 2025, 9:32 am CDT McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter has reached a settlement in a lawsuit accusing its former chief financial officer and his wife of stealing more than $3 million from the law firm. (Image from Shutterstock) McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter has reached a settlement in a lawsuit accusing its former chief financial officer and his wife of stealing more than $3 million from the law firm. McElroy Deutsch notified…
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Over the past two months, the Trump administration has taken steps to eliminate regulations addressing climate change, pull back funding for climate programs and cancel methods used to evaluate how climate change is affecting American society and its economy. Now it is directly undermining the science and research of climate change itself, in ways that some of the nation’s most distinguished scientists say will have dangerous consequences. Proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the agency…
Top executives at well-known US firms are warning about the impact that tariffs are having on their companies and the wider economy.Technology giant Intel, footwear maker Skechers and consumer goods firm Procter & Gamble, have either cut their profit forecasts or withdrawn them citing economic uncertainty.US President Donald Trump has been trying to rebalance relations with key trading partners by using steep tariffs to bring them to the negotiating table.No new trade agreements between the US and other countries have been announced yet but there have been signs of progress in talks with South Korea.”The very fluid trade policies in…
Before Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday, tens of thousands of dignitaries, pilgrims and tourists will have had the chance to line up and pay their respects. But in the moments before his casket is interred in a simple tomb at the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica in Rome, it will be a group of people living in poverty who will have the final chance to honour him. The Vatican says it’s an indication of the “privileged place” that people living in poverty have in God’s heart, and in Francis’s, who spent his pontificate advocating for the marginalized. “Everybody misses him,” said Ciobanu Catalin Nelu, 49, who was sleeping…