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Reporting Highlights Diverted Funds: Christopher Dawson won hundreds of millions in federal contracts by promising to help Native Hawaiians. Instead, prosecutors say, he bought luxury homes. Poor Oversight: The Small Business Administration failed to police its business development program despite audits showing years of abuse. Few Changes: Even after federal agents raided the company and the SBA threatened to terminate it from the program, Dawson’s firms continued to win massive contracts. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. At a congressional oversight hearing in 2019, Linda McMahon, then head of the Small Business…

South Korea has lodged a complaint with the Chinese and Russian defence attaches based in the country, a day after their warplanes entered its air defence zone.Seoul said it sent up fighter jets to “take tactical measures in preparation for any emergencies” after seven Russian and two Chinese military aircraft “briefly entered” the zone on Tuesday, but noted they “did not violate” South Korea’s airspace.Some countries delineate air identification defence zones, wherein they require foreign planes to identify themselves. These are not part of sovereign airspaces under international law.In March this year, Seoul also deployed fighter jets after several Russian…

LISTEN | Full interview with Amnesty International’s Isa Sanusi:As It Happens6:25Mass school kidnappings are eroding education in Nigeria, says Amnesty InternationalSending children to school has become too dangerous for many families in Nigeria.Over the last decade, it has become almost routine for Nigerian schoolchildren to be abducted en masse from their classrooms and held hostage by armed gunmen. The government has repeatedly vowed to improve security at schools to prevent these kidnappings. But after more than 300 children were taken from a Catholic school in Niger state last month, Amnesty International says parents have lost all faith that things will get…

Updated on Dec. 9 at 9:41 p.m. The Supreme Court on Tuesday considered a challenge to a federal law limiting the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with a candidate for office. During over two hours of oral argument in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, some of the justices were sympathetic to the challengers’ position that the coordinated expenditure limits violate the First Amendment. But with Justice Neil Gorsuch remaining silent throughout the debate, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett asking only one question, it remained difficult to make definitive predictions about the outcome…

Home Daily News Judge accused of hitting prosecutor is suspended… Judiciary Judge accused of hitting prosecutor is suspended without pay By Debra Cassens Weiss December 2, 2025, 11:50 am CST A judge in Brown County, Texas, has been suspended without pay after his indictment stemming partly from allegations that he hit a prosecutor and tried to hinder an arrest by failing to sign an arrest warrant. (Image from Shutterstock) A judge in Brown County, Texas, has been suspended without pay after his indictment stemming partly from allegations that he hit a prosecutor and tried to hinder an arrest by failing…

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What Happened: A congressional investigation out today has found that, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims, immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens.  The report by Senate Democrats, which was prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, included interviews with nearly two dozen Americans.  Citizens told congressional investigators that immigration officers had dragged them from cars, detained them for days, fabricated claims of assault, routinely used excessive force and denied medical care. The investigation also found that agents “treated children with reckless disregard for their safety and wellbeing.” One citizen recalled that federal agents pointed guns at her youngest children, ages…

US President Donald Trump has criticised European leaders as “weak” and suggested the US could scale back support for Ukraine.In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, he said “decaying” European countries had failed to control migration or take decisive action to end Ukraine’s war with Russia, accusing them of letting Kyiv fight “until they drop”. European leaders have made attempts to carve out a role in the US-led efforts to end the war, which they fear will undercut the long-term interests of the continent in favour of a quick resolution.In response, the UK’s Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said all she saw…

Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Lithuania’s government on Tuesday declared a national emergency over security risks posed by meteorological balloons sent from Russia-allied Belarus that have violated its airspace in recent weeks, while the Belarusian leader called for negotiations on border tensions and said his country “does not need war.”The balloons forced Lithuania to repeatedly shut down its main airport, stranding thousands of people, as Europe remains on alert over previous intrusions into NATO airspace during the war in Ukraine.”In combating the Belarusian hybrid attack,…

Clear Statements is a recurring series by Abbe R. Gluck on civil litigation and the modern regulatory and statutory state. Depending on who you ask, the real “bad old days” at the Supreme Court were the late 1970s. At least that’s the impression one comes away with after reading the briefs in FS Credit Opportunities Corp. v. Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd., to be argued tomorrow, Wednesday, Dec. 10. The question presented is whether the Investment Company Act of 1940 includes an implied right of action – specifically, an individual right to go to court to rescind a contract that one…