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The GuardianImmigrationUSA

Federal judge accuses White House of ‘terror’ against immigrants in US

Sunshine Sykes says Trump administration poses threats and is recklessly violating law with its mass deportationsA federal judge has accused the of terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law in to deport millions of people.The judge said that the White House had also “extended its violence on its own citizens”, citing the of Renee Good in January by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement () officer and Alex Pretti in the same month by Border Patrol, both US citizens and both protesting in Minneapolis.

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The GuardianPoliticsLondon

Consultancy co-founded by Peter Mandelson falls into administration

Global Counsel stops trading after clients cut ties over former ambassador’s relationship with Jeffrey EpsteinThe consultancy co-founded by Peter Mandelson has collapsed into administration, after a number of clients cut ties with the company over the former ambassador’s relationship with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Global Counsel, which Mandelson co-founded in 2010, said on Friday that it had stopped trading and its staff in the UK were being made redundant.

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The GuardianHealthAustralia

Australia-US minerals deal underpinned decision to allow Alcoa to keep clearing WA forest, document reveals

Document also shows US miner had been unlawfully clearing land for 15 years despite warnings from departmentGet our , or The Australian government’s decision to allow the US mining giant Alcoa to continue clearing swathes of Western Australian jarrah forest despite was made in part due to a critical minerals deal reached between Australia and the Trump administration last year, a new document shows. The document also reveals Alcoa was unlawfully clearing land for its bauxite mining practices in the area south of Perth for 15 years, despite warnings from the federal environment department. Conservationists have expressed outrage that an “unprecedented” $55m penalty announced by the environment minister was only applied to a six-year period in which the illegal clearing was alleged to have occurred. Murray Watt said on Wednesday that the penalty – known as an enforceable undertaking – was for clearing that occurred from 2019-2025 in known habitat for nationally protected species without an approval under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.When announcing the penalty, Watt said he had granted Alcoa a national interest exemption to allow it to continue clearing in the northern jarrah forest for 18 months while the government considered a proposal for an expansion of the company’s Huntly and Willowdale .

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The GuardianHumanityUSA

Texas congressional candidate with extremist views backed by hard-right donors

After tech billionaire Peter Thiel and others donated to Jace Yarbrough’s campaign, Donald Trump endorsed himA rookie congressional candidate in a nine-way Texas primary has received the imprimatur of wealthy hard-right donors including tech billionaire , Claremont Institute board chair Thomas Klingenstein and Charles Haywood, who once expressed a desire to be a “warlord”, according to new Federal Election Commission filings showing early donations to his campaign.In a recent candidate forum, Jace Yarbrough unapologetically staked out a series of extremist positions, saying that critics may call his approach to politics “bigoted and backward and oppressive and Nazi-ish”, but that he is “past trying to placate that in any way, shape or form”.

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The GuardianHumanityUSA

Amid Trump crackdown on Chinese students, one US university appears to block them altogether

Purdue says no ban on Chinese students exists, but reportedly rescinded dozens of offers after warnings from legislatorsSeveral have scrapped partnerships with Chinese institutions in recent months as a direct result of pressure from US legislators. But no university appears to have gone as far as Purdue University in .Students and faculty at the public university say that an unofficial policy is in effect to automatically reject students from and a number of other countries altogether.

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The GuardianImmigrationAustralia

Pauline Hanson is already distorting policy and politics on immigration. It’s threatening to take us down a dark road

Labor is cutting immigration, and the Coalition is talking about ‘good and bad’ migrants, as One Nation’s rise influences the debateGet our , or A little more than two years out from the next federal election, there is something of a realignment going on across the colour-coded hallways of Parliament House.After a torrid nine months of post-election hell for the Liberals and the Nationals, Angus Taylor has taken over the reins of the Coalition. A new opposition energy, especially on the economy, is already evident.

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The GuardianPoliticsAustralia

Claims of bikies, strippers and drugs in the CFMEU threaten to end Jacinta Allan’s premiership. Can she survive?

A report alleging the Victorian branch of the union had turned into a ‘crime syndicate’ has sparked a war between the state government and a corruption fighterGet our , or Every morning, Sam* wakes up around 4am, puts on his steel cap boots and drives to work on a construction site in Melbourne’s south-east. The summer heat has been relentless, but he says the pay is solid, the crew tight and the site safe.He credits this to his union, the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union – or CFMEU – which was thrust back into the national spotlight last week after the release of a report by corruption fighter Geoffrey Watson SC.

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The GuardianCrime & SafetyEngland

Police urge Andrew’s protection officers to come forward with what they ‘saw or heard’ – as it happened

Metropolitan Police also working with US counterparts to establish whether London airports had been used to ‘facilitate human trafficking and sexual exploitation’The family of Ghislaine Maxwell, for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, responded last night to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest.“Astonished to see Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested today over alleged misconduct in public office linked to material from the so‑called Epstein ‘Files’,” they posted on an X account run by Maxwell’s siblings.

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