At least seven people have been killed after a hospital and market were bombed in South Sudan, a medical charity has said, as fears grow of a return to civil war.Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said helicopter gunships dropped a bomb on the pharmacy of the hospital it runs in Old Fangak, Jonglei state, burning it down, before firing on the town for 30 minutes. A drone then bombed a local market, MSF said.The hospital is the only one in Fangak county, which has a population of more than 110,000 people, MSF said, and all its medical supplies were destroyed. The…
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The south Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is on its way to becoming an official city with a galactic name: Starbase.A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was approved by a lopsided margin by a small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees at SpaceX.Starbase is the facility and launch site for the SpaceX rocket program that is under contract with the Department of Defence and NASA that hopes to send astronauts back to the moon and someday to Mars.Musk first floated the idea of Starbase in 2021 and approval of…
A group of transgender service members urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to leave in place an order by a federal judge that bars the government from enforcing a policy that would prohibit them from serving in the U.S. military. Putting the order on hold, they told the justices, would “upend the status quo by allowing the government to immediately begin discharging thousands of transgender servicemembers, including” the plaintiffs in this case, “thereby ending distinguished careers and gouging holes in military units” The Trump administration came to the court last week, asking the justices to put the order on hold while the service members’…
Home Daily News After US prosecutors mistakenly file confidential… Trials & Litigation After US prosecutors mistakenly file confidential memo, is their challenge to congestion pricing doomed? By Debra Cassens Weiss April 28, 2025, 9:51 am CDT Cars drive past congestion pricing signs on Columbus Avenue and 61st Street in New York City in January. (Photo from Shutterstock) Federal prosecutors have been kicked off a challenge to congestion pricing in New York City after they mistakenly filed a confidential memo saying the government is “very unlikely” to be successful. The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York will be…
Shelter from swelter has never been so much fun…With outdoor temperatures rattling the spicy end of the thermometer, those remaining in Dubai for the summer have to get tactical about where to have their fun. It’s an ‘inside job’. Kids have long been cashing in on their playtime privilege – with access to a seemingly unending list of soft play adventures and air-conditioned clambering, whereas the traditional provisions for adults have centred around “I dunno” *shrugs* “could do the mall?” It’s a discrepancy that 2024 has been working hard to dismantle – we’ve seen a climate-controlled cavalcade of new and…
ProPublica announced on Thursday that Gus Garcia-Roberts has been hired as a national reporter. Garcia-Roberts comes to ProPublica from The Washington Post, where he published investigations into the overdose death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs; the sexual abuse allegations against Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer and Major League Baseball’s secretive system in examining domestic abuse and sexual assault; and how the NFL has failed in hiring Black coaches, part of a series that won the Associated Press Sports Editors top prize for projects and the Online Journalism Awards’ prize for excellence in sports reporting. Before joining the…
Getty ImagesSingapore PM Lawrence Wong became the PAP party leader last yearSingapore’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) has won by a landslide in an election dominated by concerns over the cost of living and the country’s future economic stability.Led by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in his first election since he became party leader last year, the PAP clinched 65.6% of the vote and an overwhelming majority of the 97 seats in parliament.Singaporeans went to the polls on Saturday worrying about inflation, wage stagnation and job prospects.The result will be widely seen as a flight to safety to the PAP amid…
Australia’s Anthony Albanese claimed a second term as prime minister on Saturday in a dramatic comeback against once-resurgent conservatives that was powered by voters’ concerns about the influence of U.S. President Donald Trump.The Australian Electoral Commission website projected Labor would win 81 of 150 seats in the House of Representatives, increasing its majority in Parliament, with 68 per cent of the vote counted.Peter Dutton, leader of the conservative Liberal party, conceded defeat and the loss of his own seat — echoing the fate of Canada’s Conservative Party and its leader, Pierre Poilievre, whose election losses days earlier were also attributed to a Trump backlash.Supporters at…
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: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Friday, May 2, SCOTUSblog (May. 2, 2025, 11:04 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/05/the-morning-read-for-friday-may-2/ Source link
Home Daily News Acting US attorney once orchestrated Facebook… Prosecutors Acting US attorney once orchestrated Facebook posts criticizing judge presiding in his case, report says By Debra Cassens Weiss April 28, 2025, 11:12 am CDT Edward R. Martin Jr., now the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, speaks at an event at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., in June 2023. (Photo by Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Associated Press) The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., formerly helped ghostwrite posts criticizing a judge presiding in a civil case in which he was the defendant, according to lawsuit documents cited by…
