33 h. ago Trump’s FCC chair blasts MSNBC for ‘news distortion’ and refusal to call deported man a ‘violent’ MS

‘Comcast outlets spent days misleading the American public—implying that Abrego Garcia was merely a law abiding U.S. citizen, just a regular ‘Maryland man.’ When the truth comes out, they ignore it,’ Brendan Carr tweeted on Wednesday night

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43 h. ago El Salvador president vows to double size of prison holding US deportees

Donald Trump urged that the prison, which already holds 40,000, be expanded after he threatened to send American citizens who have broken the law

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57 h. ago A US pastor abducted in South Africa has been rescued after a police shootout

South African law enforcement officials have rescued an American missionary who was abducted by armed and masked men as he was preaching in the Eastern Cape province last week

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66 h. ago ‘I haven’t seen sunlight in 3 months’: American law firm trainees in London endure 13

‘I haven’t seen sunlight in 3 months’: American law firm trainees in London endure 13-hour days for eye-watering six-figure starting salaries  Fortune

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4 d. ago What to stream: Jude Law as a fed, a 'Law & Order' reunion and David Oyelowo in an oddball comedy

Mariska Hargitay reuniting with her old partner, Detective Elliot Stabler, on “Law & Order: Organized Crime” and Jude Law sporting a mustache and an American accent to play an FBI agent are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases

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2 w. ago The Who's Roger Daltrey, 81, reveals sad health battle live on stage during charity concert

The Who's Roger has admitted he's enduring a health battle while performing at a charity concert in London on Thursday.

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3 w. ago How Karachi’s women got into power: the female electricians lighting up homes in Pakistan

Two hundred women, known as the Light Sisters, have learned to fix appliances and safely install fittings, challenging gender stereotypes and providing opportunities in the male-dominated energy sectorA cardboard sign reading “Electrician available” hangs outside a house in the Karachi neighbourhood of Shah Latif Town. The name and phone number of a man, along with his expertise in repairing sewing machines and water pumps is listed underneath.In reality, the electrician is 30-year-old Nazia Seher. The phone number belongs to her husband, Mohammad Rehan. Seher is among 200 certified female electricians trained by a private electricity firm in Karachi under a programme called Roshni Baji (Light Sisters). Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘The authoritarian playbook’: Trump targets judges, lawyers and law itself

Attacks on key US institutions seek to stifle dissent, exact revenge and subordinate them to the president, experts sayNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.As Donald Trump aggressively seeks revenge against multiple foes in the US, he’s waging a vendetta using executive orders and social media against judges, law firms, prosecutors, the press and other vital American institutions to stifle dissent and exact retribution.Legal scholars say the president’s menacing attacks, some of which Trump’s biggest campaign backer, the billionaire Elon Musk, has echoed, are aimed at silencing critics of his radical agenda and undercut the rule of law in authoritarian ways that expand his own powers. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump’s defiance of court orders is ‘testing the fences’ of the rule of law

Administration’s ‘unprecedented degree of resistance’ to judiciary undercuts its authority and weakens democracyDonald Trump’s second administration has shown an “unprecedented degree of resistance” to adverse court rulings, experts say, part of a forceful attack on the American judiciary that threatens to undermine the rule of law, undercut a co-equal branch of government and weaken American democracy.The attacks, experts say, threaten one of the fundamental pillars of American government: that the judicial branch has the power to interpret the law and the other branches will abide by its rulings. Continue reading...

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last month Conservative former federal judge says Trump has ‘declared war’ on US rule of law

J Michael Luttig said a constitutional crisis is brewing due to Trump’s defiance of a court order over deportationsNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.Donald Trump has “declared war on the rule of law in America” and is pitching the country into a constitutional crisis, a prominent former conservative federal judge said.“The president of the United States has essentially declared war on the rule of law in America,” J Michael Luttig told MSNBC. “In the past few weeks the president himself has led a full-frontal assault on the constitution, the rule of law, the federal judiciary, the American justice system and the nation’s legal profession. Continue reading...

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