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Soroush Negahdari,BBC MonitoringandGhoncheh Habibiazad,BBC PersianWANA via REUTERSIranian authorities responded with lethal force as the protests in Tehran escalated on 8 January”My friends are all like me. We all know someone who was killed in the protests.”For Parisa, a 29-year-old from Tehran, the crackdown by security forces in Iran earlier this month was unlike anything she had witnessed before.”In the most widespread previous protests, I didn’t personally know a single person who had been killed,” she said.Parisa said she knew at least 13 people who had been killed since protests over worsening economic conditions erupted in the capital on 28 December…
Judge temporarily bars removal of boy, 5, and father detained by immigration agents in Minnesota
Listen to this articleEstimated 2 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.A U.S. federal judge has issued a temporary order prohibiting removal of a five-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father whose arrest last week in Minnesota quickly become another lightning rod for America’s divisions on immigration under the Trump administration.U.S. Judge Fred Biery ruled Monday that any removal or transfer of Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, is on hold while a court case proceeds. The…
Controlling Opinions is a recurring series by Richard Re that explores the interaction of law, ideology, and discretion at the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is creating a formidable presidential power to remove subordinate executive officials, even from many once-independent agencies. Yet the court is not simply tearing down the principle of agency independence associated with Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, the court’s 1935 decision approving statutory limits on the president’s power to fire commissioners of the FTC. To fully understand the court’s removal jurisprudence – how and why it is changing – executive officials’ for-cause tenure protection must be…
Home Daily News Arizona county attorney fired after being… Criminal Law Arizona county attorney fired after being accused of filming young girl inside store January 26, 2026, 1:50 pm CST Paul Correa. (Sierra Valley Police Department) A high-ranking attorney for an Arizona county was fired after being accused of filming a 12-year-old girl at a Target store last month. The girl’s father confronted Paul Correa, who served as Chief Civil Deputy County Attorney for the Cochise County Attorney’s Office, and caught him allegedly watching the video with “disheveled” pants, according to the police, Fox 10 Phoenix reports. Police officers responded…
There’s something enduringly romantic about the idea of rail travel. Getting your ticket punched and powering through grand panoramic vistas, the rhythmic sway of carriages gently rocking you towards your final destination. Maybe there’s ‘an incident’ and a moustached Belgian will have to eliminate potential culprits one-by-one, using wild leaps of deduction. It’s a first class way to travel, is what we’re saying, even if you’re in coach.And if you are curious about what the UAE’s own Etihad Rail project will mean for travel in the region *twiddles mustache*, you ‘ave come to ze right place. 3 of 12 Etihad…
How a Tennessee Official Kept Advance Financial’s Sports Betting Company Alive — ProPublica
The powerful owners of a payday lending company faced a crisis in March 2021 when their other business, a now-defunct sports gambling operation, was under investigation by Tennessee regulators. The couple, Michael and Tina Hodges, had already turned to Tennessee Speaker of the House Cameron Sexton in 2014 to create a new triple-digit interest loan called a “Flex Loan.” The couple’s company, Advance Financial, through the Flex Loan, went on to make hundreds of millions of dollars lending to the state’s most financially vulnerable. Now they needed Sexton’s help keeping their fledgling gambling business, Action 247, afloat as it tried…
A 2.5 mile (4km) section of cliff has collapsed on the Italian island of Sicily, after it was pummelled by wind and rain brought by Storm Harry last week.More than 1,000 residents have been evacuated from their homes in Niscemi and geological surveys are currently under way to asses the area.There have been no reports of deaths or injuries, but aerial footage shows numerous buildings and vehicles have been destroyed.The landslide occurred on Sunday with parts of the cliff continuing to crumble on Monday, according to local media. Source link
Listen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.Ryan Wedding, the former Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin, pleaded not guilty in a Santa Ana, Calif., court Monday to multiple charges related to murder and drug trafficking. The 44-year-old who was born in Thunder Bay, Ont., was arrested in Mexico last week after spending almost 10 years evading authorities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. He faces 17 charges, including conspiracy to…
ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. A lot has happened on the Supreme Court’s docket since my September preview, including six criminal law opinions on the merits (two by summary reversal – that is, without additional briefing and oral arguments), and 29 new grants of review (certiorari). Eight separate writings of individual justices in criminal cases have also appeared on the “Orders” docket. And of course last week saw oral arguments about Hawaii’s private-property-versus-gun-rights law. I should also mention two significant full court decisions on the interim docket…