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Sebastian UsherMiddle East correspondentThomas MackintoshBBC NewsGetty ImagesHamdan Ballal poses with Rachel Szor after they won Best Documentary Feature Film for No Other Land at the OscarsA Palestinian Oscar winner has been attacked by Israeli settlers, activists who witnessed the event say, before being detained by the Israeli military.Hamdan Ballal, who co-directed No Other Land, had his house in the Israeli-occupied West Bank surrounded by settlers during an attack on Monday, the activists said.His co-director Yuval Abraham said Mr Ballal was beaten by settlers then taken by soldiers while in an ambulance. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said no Palestinian had…

Detailed planning​ for a potential “coalition of the willing” peacekeeping mission to Ukraine is expected to kick off this week among Western military commanders, says the Canadian general in charge of overseas and domestic operations.​ The notion of a peacekeeping force is being met internationally with skepticism as Ukraine and Russia meet indirectly to hammer out a limited ceasefire.Lt.-Gen. Steve Boivin suggested Canada would be stretched to contribute, but it’s possible if the troops that are training Ukrainian forces are re-purposed for peacekeeping.He told CBC News that a preliminary gathering of senior military commanders from 28 nations that have expressed a…

ARGUMENT ANALYSIS By Amy Howe on Mar 24, 2025 at 2:15 pm The justices heard arguments in Louisiana v. Callais on Monday, the first case of their March session. (Katie Barlow) It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisiana’s latest redistricting plan. The state and a group of Black voters ask the justices to reinstate a congressional map, enacted by the Louisiana legislature last year, that created a second majority-Black district. A federal court threw the map out, agreeing with a group of voters who describe themselves as…

Home Daily News Ex-Wisconsin justice who led election review… Ethics Ex-Wisconsin justice who led election review should be compelled to sit for deposition in ethics case, motion says By Debra Cassens Weiss March 6, 2025, 10:00 am CST In this Sept. 17, 2015, file photo, then-Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael J. Gableman speaks during a court hearing at the Grant County Courthouse in Lancaster, Wisconsin. (Photo by Jessica Reilly/The Telegraph Herald via the Associated Press) A former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice should be compelled to sit for a deposition before a disciplinary review board, a lawyer for the Wisconsin Office…

And it’s only Dhs5 per trip…Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has expanded it’s Bus-On-Demand service to cover two more areas: Oud Metha and Barsha Heights. There is increasing demand for the service, and this expansion is in response to that as it offers swift and convenient daily mobility solutions while improving traffic flow across the emirate.The service is a reasonable Dhs5 per person, per trip and now covers 11 key areas across Dubai. The areas are Al Barsha 1, 2, and 3, Al Nahda, Al Karama, Al Rigga, Business Bay, Barsha Heights, Dubai Downtown, Dubai Academic City, Dubai Silicon…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica. The guidance, which was distributed to several staffers last week, comes on the back of multiple new directives to cut off NIH funding to grants that are focused on subjects that are viewed as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities, such as gender identity, LGBTQ+ issues, vaccine hesitancy, and diversity, equity and inclusion.…

Watch: ‘Nobody was texting war plans’, says Pete Hegseth in response to The Atlantic reportThe Trump administration is facing political uproar after the White House confirmed that a journalist was inadvertently added to an unsecure group chat in which US national security officials planned a military strike in Yemen.The Atlantic magazine’s Jeffrey Goldberg reported that he was included on a Signal message group where Vice-President JD Vance and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth were apparently among members.He said he saw classified military plans for US strikes on Houthi rebels, including weapons packages, targets and timing, two hours before the bombs struck.…

Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military, according to one of his fellow directors and other witnesses.The filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was one of three Palestinians detained in the village of Susiya, according to attorney Lea Tsemel. Police told her the Palestinians are being held at a military base for medical treatment, and she said she hasn’t been able to speak with them.Basel Adra, another co-director, witnessed the detention and said around two dozen settlers — some masked, some carrying guns, some…

SCOTUS NEWS By Amy Howe on Mar 24, 2025 at 2:56 pm The justices did not grant any new cases on Monday. (Katie Barlow) The Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause gives defendants in criminal cases the right to “be confronted with the witnesses against” them. The Supreme Court on Monday morning declined to decide when a statement that is made out of court to an agency responsible for making bail recommendations is the kind of “testimonial” statement to which the Sixth Amendment applies. However, two justices – Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch – suggested that the court may need to reconsider…

Home Daily News DC Circuit allows federal watchdog’s removal… Constitutional Law DC Circuit allows federal watchdog’s removal pending expedited appeal; US argued he had gone ‘rogue’ By Debra Cassens Weiss March 6, 2025, 11:15 am CST The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday allowed the Trump administration to remove Hampton Dellinger, the leader of the Office of Special Counsel. (Photo by the U.S. Department of Justice, PD US DOJ, via Wikimedia Commons) Updated: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday allowed the Trump administration to remove the leader…