5 h. ago County judge in Chicago area bars ICE from arresting people at court

Cook County’s top judge signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at court

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35 h. ago Supreme Court gender ruling risks leaving trans people in ‘intermediate zone’ and could breach ECHR, UK warned

A European human rights watchdog has warned Britain’s treatment of trans people could breach the ECHR

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54 h. ago The Guardian view on the online scam industry: authorities must not forget that perpetrators are often victims too | Editorial

A lucrative sector is spreading fast as criminal enterprises force abused and trafficked workers to cheat othersA Chinese court last month sentenced 11 people to death over their roles in a illegal scam empire along the border with Myanmar. But it won’t end a noxious multibillion-dollar industry that devastates the lives of two sets of victims. The first are those cheated out of money, often by people posing as potential romantic or business partners in what are known as “pig‑butchering” schemes. The second are those who are forced to cheat them, working in conditions amounting to modern slavery.The recent study, Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds, by Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li and Mark Bo, paints a terrifying picture of the sector. Workers are trafficked into heavily guarded, prison-like compounds, where they are routinely abused and tortured for failing to meet targets, or extorted for ransoms. Others take the jobs willingly, but find that they cannot repay ru...

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4 d. ago Man will plead guilty to threatening Pride event after Charlie Kirk’s death

Joshua Wayne Cole to admit in court to making online posts about shooting people at an LGBTQ+ parade in TexasA Texas man has agreed to plead guilty to going on social media and threatening to shoot people at an LGBTQ+ parade as vengeance for the murder of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.Joshua Wayne Cole signed federal court filings indicating that he planned to plead guilty to a charge of interstate threatening communications at a hearing tentatively set for 16 October, about a month after he was arrested in connection with online posts threatening to open fire on a Pride parade in Abilene, Texas. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Pair plotted ‘mass fatalities’ with gun attack on Jewish people, court hears

Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, deny preparing acts of terrorism between December 13 2023 and May 9 2024.

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1 week ago 'Where am I safe?': UK court ruling leaves trans people's lives in turmoil

'Where am I safe?': UK court ruling leaves trans people's lives in turmoil  Reuters

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1 week ago Police officer who mocked disabled and vulnerable people in custody and sent videos to friends on WhatsApp weeps as he walks free from court

Former Met Police officer Jose Cunha, pictured, walked free from court today after he was handed a suspended sentence for sending videos mocking disabled and vulnerable people in custody.

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1 week ago West Lothian home robbed of five figure sum of jewellery as police appeal for information

Officers believe that multiple people were involved in the break in on Daisyhill Court in Blackburn between 7.15pm and 9pm on Tuesday, September 30.

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2 w. ago Tennessee court sets execution date for the state's only woman on death row and 3 male inmates

The Tennessee Supreme Court has set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row

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2 w. ago Survey launched on whether trans people should be able to access Hampstead Heath ladies' pond following Supreme Court ruling

The ladies’ pond at Hampstead Heath currently admits biological women and transgender women

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2 w. ago Views sought on transgender access to Hampstead Heath’s bathing ponds

The consultation opens on Tuesday and will run until November 25.

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2 w. ago China court sentences 11 people to death over alleged role in family

Another five people given suspended death sentences over alleged role in gang that operated scam centres and illegal gambling worth $1.4bnA court in China has sentenced 11 people to death for their alleged roles in a family-run crime syndicate accused of running illegal gambling and scam operations worth more than $1.4bn, and for the deaths of workers who disobeyed them.The Wenzhou intermediate people’s court on Monday sentenced 11 members of the powerful Ming family in Kokkang, Myanmar to death while another five were handed death sentences suspended for two years. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Veteran charged with opening fire on North Carolina bar, killing 3, is scheduled to appear in court

A decorated Marine combat veteran is scheduled to appear in court after a mass shooting that left three people dead and five people injured at a waterfront bar in Southport, North Carolina

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2 w. ago Court live updates as trial continues of eight people accused of taking part in Ely riot

Lee Robinson, Luke Williams, Jaydan Baston, Michaela Gonzales, McKenzie Danks, Jordan Bratcher, Zayne Farrugia and Connor O'Sullivan are accused of rioting in the Cardiff suburb following the death of two teenagers

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2 w. ago New Zealand man convicted of murder for boarding house fire that killed five tenants

The 2023 Loafers Lodge fire provoked outrage about the dilapidated and often unregulated state of boarding houses in New ZealandA New Zealand jury has convicted a man of murder and arson for setting fire to a Wellington boarding house where he lived that killed five fellow tenants, in a case which provoked outrage about the dilapidated and often unregulated state of boarding houses, which mostly accommodate low-income people with few options.The jury at the high court in Wellington reached the verdicts against Esarona David Lologa after less than three days of deliberations, rejecting the defence of insanity argued by Lologa’s lawyers. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Transgender Americans are seeing a wave of hate unleashed by Charlie Kirk’s killing | Erin Reed

In the aftermath of Kirk’s death, the far-right and Trump administration have turned up attacks on transgender peopleOn the day anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was shot, fear rippled through the left that the far right would seize the moment to consolidate power. Nowhere was that fear more acute than in the transgender community.Within hours, Republicans were already blaming trans people; one commentator even claimed the bullets carried “transgender symbols”, a claim investigators quickly debunked. But the deeper fear wasn’t misinformation – it was the crackdown that would follow. With fragile rights hanging by the thread of court rulings and blue-state protections, trans people braced for the worst. And they were right: The right has seized on the shooting as its own Reichstag fire, accelerating a campaign to target transgender existence – now with the full weight of the Trump administration behind it.Erin Reed is a transgender journalist based in Washington DC. She tracks LGBTQ+...

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2 w. ago Major Marylebone flooding leads 14 people to be evacuated from homes and court to shut

Major Marylebone flooding leads 14 people to be evacuated from homes and court to shut  My London

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3 w. ago US citizens and permanent residents: how do you feel about the possibility of being racially profiled by Ice agents?

We want to hear from people of color about how they feel that immigration agents can continue to stop people in Los Angeles based on race, language, job or locationOn 8 September, the supreme court’s conservative majority temporarily lifted restrictions on “roving” immigration patrols across the Los Angeles area after a lower court found that federal agents were indiscriminately targeting people on the basis of race, language, employment or location.Immigration advocates warned that the court has “effectively legalized racial profiling” and opened the door to a broader unraveling of civil rights protections nationwide. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Woman is whipped with a cane for adultery after she is deemed to have broken Sharia law in Indonesia's Aceh province

She was one of nine people brought before the Banda Aceh Syar'iyah Court, where judges handed down punishments ranging from 10 to 100 lashes for various offences

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3 w. ago ‘We should have been shouting about this earlier’: David Tennant on his shocking TV show about phone hacking

He went to court over having his phone tapped, and now he’s starring in ITV’s look at the Guardian’s investigation into the scandal. Tennant and writer Jack Thorne open up about this ‘immensely troubling’ story that is far from over‘I got a phonecall from the police saying your name is in a notebook and I joined one of the bundles of people who took that to court,” says the actor, David Tennant, carefully. “I mean, at the time I was in Doctor Who so I was useful for a story, I suppose “It didn’t come as a massive surprise, but the whole thing had always felt like a gross invasion. It felt like the world had gone a bit mad, that we lost a moral compass, that a layer of humanity was being stripped away by what was happening here.” Continue reading...

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