29 h. ago Kilmar Ábrego García pleads not guilty to human smuggling charges

Wrongfully deported man expected to contest US prosecutors’ attempt to have him detained pending trialUS politics live – latest updatesKilmar Ábrego García, the man returned to the US last week after being wrongfully deported to his native El Salvador, pleaded not guilty on Friday to criminal charges of taking part in a conspiracy to smuggle migrants into the United States.The Maryland man, 29, entered the plea at a hearing before US magistrate judge Barbara Holmes in Nashville, Tennessee. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleads not guilty to smuggling charges as wife tells supporters to ‘have faith’

Wife of Salvadoran immigrant at center of Trump’s deportation agenda relays his message from federal court

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41 h. ago Tennessee judge to hear arguments about releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia from pretrial detention

A Tennessee judge is scheduled to hear arguments about whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia can be released from jail pending the outcome of a federal trial on human smuggling charges

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51 h. ago Harvard researcher released from US custody after arrest for smuggling frog embryos

Russian-born scientist Kseniia Petrova was charged with smuggling after detention at Boston airport in FebruaryA judge released a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos into the US on Thursday, freeing her on bail after a brief hearing.Kseniia Petrova, 30, who was brought into court wearing an orange jumpsuit, had been in federal custody since February. She was seen walking out of the courthouse laughing and hugging supporters. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Harvard researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos faces detention hearing

A Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos into the United States faces a detention hearing in Massachusetts

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3 d. ago British couple are charged with 'smuggling £1million of cannabis from Thailand' after being stopped at Heathrow

Sian Warren, 34, and Daniel McDonald, 36, were arrested by National Crime Agency officers at Heathrow last month after allegedly being found with more than 51kg of the drug in their suitcases.

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3 d. ago Greater Manchester couple charged with drugs smuggling after Heathrow Airport arrest

The pair were allegedly caught with cannabis worth £1 million after returning from Thailand

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4 d. ago US universities are moving to the right. Will it help them escape Trump’s wrath?

Harvard, Columbia and other higher education institutes are facing funding cuts over their policies, but reform may not be the administration’s goalIn 2018, a teaching hospital at Harvard took down 30 portraits of distinguished doctors and researchers affiliated with the hospital. The portraits reinforced a perception that “white men are in charge”, a professor of medicine told the Boston Globe, and were relegated to less prominent areas of the hospital. Some students and faculty welcomed the decision, or were indifferent.Others were disconcerted. They saw the portraits’ removal as the impulsive reflex of a university whose political atmosphere, already liberal leaning, seemed to continually lurch further left. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Brits 'caught with £1m of cannabis' after Thailand holiday arrested at Heathrow Airport

A couple were charged with trying to smuggle £1million worth of cannabis into the UK after being stopped at Heathrow Airport in the latest crime bust after a string of drug-related crime

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4 d. ago Third Chinese scientist charged with smuggling illegal biological pathogen into US from Wuhan

Chengxuan Han was arrested on Sunday at Detroit Metropolitan airport and charged with smuggling goods into the US.

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6 d. ago Ruthless people smuggler who charges £1,200 to transport migrants to the UK boasts: 'French gendarmes do nothing. Do not worry. I am the police'

The Syrian trafficker was demanding £1,200 for a place on an inflatable boat leaving from northern France on Tuesday.

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7 d. ago Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in the US, charged with human smuggling as attorneys vow ongoing fight

The fight over the mistaken deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador now returns to the U.S. court system

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7 d. ago El Salvador deportee returned to the US and charged with human smuggling

US Attorney General Pam Bondi said: ‘This is what American justice looks like’

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8 d. ago Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to US to face criminal smuggling charges

Wrongfully deported Salvadoran immigrant faces grand jury indictment over trafficking allegations

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8 d. ago US charges Kilmar Ábrego García with people smuggling as he is returned from El Salvador

US attorney general Pam Bondi says Ábrego García is back on US soil but will be sent back to El Salvador after serving a sentence if convictedTesla shares rose on Friday as investors took some comfort from White House aides scheduling a call with CEO Elon Musk to broker peace after a public feud with President Donald Trump, reports Reuters. The electric carmaker’s shares were up about 5% in Frankfurt on Friday, having closed down 14.3% on Thursday in New York, losing about $150bn in market value.“It’s unlikely that Trump will end subsidies and contracts with Tesla. Those are obviously threats that are unlikely to come into fruition,” Fiona Cincotta, senior market analyst at City Index told Reuters. “I don’t expect this to blow out into anything more serious than a war of words for a couple of days.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago What is Fusarium graminearum, the fungus US authorities say was smuggled in from China?

Federal prosecutors have charged two Chinese researchers with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer

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1 week ago Peru Two's Michaella McCollum says Brit 'drug mules' won't survive prison

Michaella McCollum, who served three years in a Peruvian jail on drug smuggling charges, has extended her sympathies to Bella May Culley and Charlotte May Lee, both of whom face lengthy sentences she says would be far beyond her own limit

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1 week ago Potential ‘agroterrorism weapon’ fungus smuggled into US by Chinese scientists, FBI alleges

Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu charged after allegedly smuggling a fungus to US that can cause serious illness and billions of dollars in crop lossesTwo Chinese scientists have been charged with smuggling a toxic fungus into the United States that they planned to research at an American university, the justice department has said.Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, are charged with conspiracy, smuggling, false statements, and visa fraud, the US attorney’s office for the eastern district of Michigan said in a statement on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Chinese researchers charged with smuggling dangerous biological pathogen into US

A pair of Chinese researchers have been charged for allegedly smuggling a biological pathogen into the US to study at the University of Michigan.

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1 week ago Three Brits face death penalty for 'smuggling cocaine in sachets of Angel Delight'

Jonathan Christopher Collyer, Lisa Ellen Stocker and Phineas Ambrose Float are all charged with smuggling the cocaine into Indonesia.

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