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A staggering number of local police are now working for ICE’s immigration roundup surge
As many as 15,800 local law enforcement officers have been deputized to enforce immigration law, report finds
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As many as 15,800 local law enforcement officers have been deputized to enforce immigration law, report finds
Yvette Cooper may think so, and use of epibatidine may seem exotic, but experts say that is not conclusive It was a very particular choice of weapon, but experts say it remains unclear whether was intended to convey a message., the poison is produced by wild dart frogs native to parts of South America – meaning Navalny could not have accidentally taken the poison.
Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to global figures have prompted multiple probes far beyond the United States. James C. Reynolds reports
North Korea honours fallen soldiers by providing new homes to their families before party congress.
Mary Fong Lau, 80, pleaded no contest to four counts of vehicular manslaughter on Saturday. Judge Bruce Chan said he would likely sentence Lau to a few years of probation rather than jail.
Israel plans to build thousands of settlement homes near Jerusalem, in effect expanding city's borders, activists say.
Ahead of consultation on under-16s ban, government to crack down on AI chatbots and have powers to act more quicklyKeir Starmer has not yet given his full backing to a social media ban for under-16s. But on Monday the prime minister announced to restrict the harms ministers believe online platforms are causing to children who use them.“As a dad of two teenagers, I know the challenges and the worries that parents face making sure their kids are safe online,” the prime minister said in a statement.
The land registration process will apply to Area C of the occupied West Bank, which is under complete Israeli control.
The world’s largest shipping company MSC has been moving goods to and from illegal Israeli settlements.
Doctors in Iran tell Independent Persian’s Amirhossein Miresmaeili they were prevented from treating wounded protesters and forced to log gunshot wounds as tumours or car accidents
Hooman, 37, was among the thousands of Iranians killed in a brutal crackdown on protests against the regime
Corey Lewandowski has been accepting payments for videos from private companies and users while wielding unprecedented influence inside the Department of Homeland Security.
Maga is a recapitulation of the dark side of American history that cohered into nativist nationalism a century agoDonald Trump’s posting of a video depicting former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes was the most overtly racist act of a president since Woodrow Wilson segregated the federal civil service – or since Trump’s previous racist gesture. The racist imagery Trump posted was so egregious that the video’s misogyny representing Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as animals was overlooked. Trump’s denigration of women is implicitly assumed as business-as-usual and not newsworthy: “” And down the memory hole are the 3m long-suppressed documents from the Epstein files in which he is mentioned in its unredacted pages “”, according to the Democratic representative Jamie Raskin, who was permitted access.The only Black Republican US senator, Tim Scott of South Carolina, said of the Obama portrayal: “It’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House,” though Scott did not disclose any list, which could have been drawn from an encyclopedia of offenses beginning Trump’s birther campaign. During Trump’s first administration, in 2020, Scott chose to call out one incident as “”: Trump’s tweet of a video of a supporter chanting “white power”. Trump’s latest racist post was preceded on 11 January by his predictable vandalism of Black History Month in an with the New York Times with a remark about the Civil Rights Act of 1964: “White people were very badly treated.”Sidney Blumenthal, former senior adviser to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume political life of Abraham Lincoln: , and . He is a Guardian US columnist
The Trump administration has been accused of "purposefully muddying the waters" after releasing a list of hundreds of names mentioned in the Epstein files.
A man accused of killing 15 people in a mass shooting at a Jewish festival on Sydney’s Bondi Beach has appeared in court for the first time since his release from the hospital
As well as earning him the nickname Airmiles Andy because of his penchant for long-distance luxury air travel, his decade as trade envoy was dogged by controversy
Dozens of emails mentioning the former Duke of York which were once easily findable via a basic keyword search can now only be traced from screenshots showing their sent date.
The high court was right to rule that ministers overstretched terror laws in proscribing direct action. Protest should be policed by criminal lawThe high court last week that the British government’s proscription of Palestine Action is unlawful and disproportionate. Its , however, is hardly one in praise of militant protest. That makes it all the more awkward for ministers. The bench rejected Palestine Action’s claim that it was engaged in Gandhian civil disobedience. The judges also accepted that a number of incidents involved serious property damage that technically satisfied the statutory definition of terrorism.But they were clear and correct: the existing criminal law “is available to prosecute those concerned”. This judicial distinction between terror and crime matters – and is devastating for the government. Ministers, the bench reasoned, can’t ban every organisation that meets the legal terror threshold just because it brings “significant ” to do so.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our section, please .
Campaigner Jean Hatchet and her partner confronted members of the Sheffield Apartheid-Free Zone (AFZ) campaign on Sunday as they went canvassing in the city.
The deal can be revealed after the media giant failed in an ambitious legal bid to keep its financial arrangement with the woman, known as Person 17, secret for the next 50 years.
Files show convicted sex abuser messaged with Ken Starr and others about Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford sympathized with during the then-supreme court nominee’s contentious 2018 confirmation and even suggested Republicans should have been harder on Christine Blasey Ford, who had accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault.Emails and text messages released by the Department of Justice show Epstein was closely monitoring the confirmation and seemed to believe that Ford’s allegation of sexual assault could derail the process.
Marina Lacerda, who was 14 when she was first abused by Epstein, talks to the Daily Mail about her ongoing fight for justice following the release of three million files related to the sex offender.
Treason is a strong word. But how else would you describe the actions of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor?
Spain could give more than a million undocumented migrants legal status - double the number expected under the socialist government's scheme - police forces have warned.
The total amount of the fraud was nearly £3,000 and involved 12 victims, Cardiff magistrates hear.
The gruesome discovery was made in the coastal province of Guayas on Saturday and is linked to a confrontation 'between criminal groups'.
From assassinating its own citizens to egging on Alberta separatists, the US has changed in ways Ottawa still refuses to confront The post first appeared on .
Around £90million of taxpayers' cash was spent by councils, schools, Whitehall departments and the health service last year to cover the cost of staff engaging in trade union work.
Alexei Navalny is latest in long line of Vladimir Putin’s critics who have died in recent years. James C Reynolds, Gustaf Kilander and Alexander Butler report
Judge compares president’s attempts to erase history to the dystopian Ministry of Truth
The practical consequences of calling for Israel to be banned from UEFA should include the FAI refusing to let its teams play against them.
Citizens have invoked the EU’s own human rights clause to demand suspension of its partnership with Israel.
Paul Scarr, the shadow immigration minister under Sussan Ley and South Australian senator Andrew McLachlan expressed concernGet our , or Liberal MPs have warned their new leader, Angus Taylor, against lurching further to the right, and imposing “blanket bans” on immigration to ban immigrants from specific regions under terrorist control – including Gaza and Lebanon.Guardian Australia reported on Monday an drafted under the former leader Sussan Ley, proposing to ban migrants from 37 regions of 13 countries where listed terrorist organisations have territorial control.
Bell Ribeiro-Addy highlighted an African Union agreement to table a UN resolution next month branding the slave trade a crime against humanity.
Another round of US-brokered peace talks will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Geneva
Asean bloc member becomes first to investigate criminal complaint against Myanmar’s generals
Rugby Special's Chris Ashton and John Barclay look at how France had "free reign" in their big win over Wales and ask the question can anyone stop them retaining their Six Nations title?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned European leaders over the weekend that President Donald Trump is serious about taking control of Greenland from Denmark.
"They had to pay for the bullet that killed their son," Nasrin says with a mix of anger and disbelief.
A study says IHL is at ‘critical breaking point’ amid horrendous violations in Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere. But to declare its demise would be prematureIs international humanitarian law (IHL), the law designed to spare civilians as much as possible the hazards of warfare, at risk of imploding? That is the conclusion of a new compendious of current armed conflicts around the world, citing the killing of civilians and other atrocities in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and elsewhere. “While the threat to IHL is not yet existential,” it warns, “it is at a critical breaking point.”There is no doubt that the disregard for civilian life in these conflicts has been horrendous. In Gaza and Sudan, it has risen to the level of genocide. But do these represent serious violations of the law or its demise?Kenneth Roth is a Guardian US columnist, visiting professor at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, and former executive director of Human Rights Watch. He is the author of
JD Vance is seeking to create a ‘trading bloc’ as shortages and climate crises mean a kaleidoscope of rare earths are increasingly jealously guardedThe announcement by the US vice-president, JD Vance, that the country is seeking to create a new critical minerals “trading bloc” is a final, exotic, nail in the coffin of the old global trading system. The era of mass abundance, as supplied by unfettered free trade and global markets – “neoliberalism” – is over. We live in a new world of strategic competition between states over scarce but essential resources, with shocks to supplies from human activity and natural disasters an ever-present risk.This means recalibrating how we think about our economy: the new economic fundamentals today are resource constraints and climate and nature crises, and these, rather than human activity, will increasingly shape the world we inhabit. Flows of finance and stocks of wealth will matter less than stocks and flows of real material resources.
Starmer to announce ‘crackdown on vile illegal content created by AI’ after scandal involving Elon Musk’s Grok toolMakers of AI chatbots that put children at risk will face massive fines or even see their services blocked in the UK under law changes to be announced by Keir Starmer on Monday.Emboldened by Elon Musk’s X after public outrage last month, ministers are planning a “crackdown on vile illegal content created by AI”.
Officials warn against Justice Department’s ‘concerning and unprecedented’ refusal to support local authorities
Experts say the detention centres were a breeding ground for extremism and a new generation of IS membersHumanitarians warned for years that the camps in north-east Syria holding tens of thousands of family members of suspected Islamic State (IS) fighters would have to be dealt with. Calling them a “ticking time bomb”, relief groups said the women and children could not just be left to rot in squalid desert camps indefinitely, because eventually they would come home.Despite the warnings, most states ignored the problem, refusing to repatriate their citizens. At least 8,000 women and children from more than 40 countries have been stranded in the camps of north-east Syria since 2019.
Fulton county office was raided in January amid Donald Trump’s claims that 2020 election was fraudulentRights groups have sued to protect voter information that was seized by the in a controversial raid in at the behest of in his renewed push to invalidate the 2020 election.The NAACP and other civil rights organizations filed a on 15 February to “prohibit the Trump administration from misusing the voter information” taken from an elections warehouse in Fulton county, Georgia, late last month.
The Savant, meant to feature Jessica Chastain , was initially slated to be one of the year's biggest releases.
Kristi Noem has launched a new pressure campaign against Americans who defy the Trump administration's sweeping immigration crackdown.
Nawrocki said Warsaw should move towards joining a 'nuclear project' to reinforce its long term security strategy in the face of Russian aggression.
Thomas Abdullah Bourne, 39, a Islamic convert who uses the social media handle 'White British Muslim', approached the Jewish comedian, 51, over the weekend.
US-backed peace talks with Kyiv and Moscow have made little progress – and Vladimir Putin has ramped up his deadly attacks