68 h. ago Mahmoud Khalil details psychological pain and reputational harm in new legal filings: ‘Efforts to erase my humanity’

Columbia student responds to ‘attacks’ from administration as federal judge considers his release from detention.

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68 h. ago Detained Columbia graduate claims ‘irreparable harm’ to career and family as he pleads for release

A Columbia graduate facing deportation over his pro-Palestinian activism on campus has outlined the “irreparable harm” caused by his continued detention as a federal judge weighs his release

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3 d. ago Federal judge hints at early release of MLK Jr assassination files following Trump’s order

The official narrative surrounding the killing of the civil rights icon has long been disputed by his family, inspiring decades of conspiracy theories speculating about what really happened on April 4, 1968

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7 d. ago ‘This is ground zero for Blatten’: the tiny Swiss village engulfed by a mountain

‘The memories preserved in countless books, photo albums, documentation – everything is gone,’ says village’s mayorFor weeks the weight had sat above the village, nine million tonnes of rock precariously resting on an ancient slab of ice. A chunk of Kleines Nesthorn mountain’s peak had crumbled, and its rubble hung over the silent, empty streets of Blatten, held back only by the glacier. The ice groaned beneath the pressure.On Wednesday afternoon, in an instant, it gave way. The ice cracked, then crumbled. The entire mass descended into the valley below, obliterating the village that had been there for more than 800 years. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago UK court orders singer Chris Brown freed on $6.7 million bail in assault case

A British judge has ordered Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown released on $6.7 million bail while facing allegations that he beat and seriously injured a music producer in a London nightclub in 2023

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3 w. ago Judge spars with Trump administration over release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ‘My head is spinning’

Judge Paula Xinis clashes with government lawyers over ‘inadequate’ information about his ongoing detention

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3 w. ago UK women driven to unregulated sperm donors by high treatment costs, experts say

One unregistered sperm donor who claims to have fathered 180 children has sought access to four children in the UK The high costs of having a child using a sperm donor are driving poor and marginalised women in the UK to use unregulated online services rife with “weirdos” and misogynists in order to have a child, experts have said.In a ruling released on Wednesday, a Middlesbrough family court judge said a man who claimed to have fathered more than 180 children across the world as an unregistered sperm donor could not have custody of one of the children. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Real Madrid’s Raúl Asencio could face trial over alleged sharing of explicit video

Asencio and three former Madrid youth players accusedGran Canaria incident in 2023 involved ‘a female minor’The Real Madrid defender Raúl Asencio and three former youth players at the club could face trial in connection with the alleged filming and distribution of a sexual video that has left two women, one of them a minor, with symptoms of post-traumatic stress.In a statement released on Wednesday, a judge on Gran Canaria said he had concluded his preliminary investigation into the recording and distribution of the incident, which is alleged to have taken place in a private area of a beach club on the island on 15 June 2023. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Judge orders release of Indian academic held by Ice over pro

Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri had visa revoked and was arrested by immigration officials in MarchA Virginia federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Georgetown academic Badar Khan Suri from Ice detention during a hearing on Wednesday.Khan Suri was among several individuals legally studying in the US who have been targeted by the Trump administration for their pro-Palestinian activism. He has spent two months in detention. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Judge says Georgetown student can be released from immigration detention as case proceeds

A federal judge has ordered that a Georgetown scholar from India be released from immigration detention after he was detained in the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign college students

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3 w. ago Judge orders release of Indian academic detained by Ice over pro

Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri had visa revoked and was arrested by immigration officials in MarchA Virginia federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Georgetown academic Badar Khan Suri from Ice detention during a hearing on Wednesday.Khan Suri was among several individuals legally studying in the US that have been targeted by the Trump administration for their pro-Palestinian activism. He has spent two months in detention. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished | Mehdi Hasan

Violent apprehensions, warrantless arrests, deported children: how many more abuses of power will it take for Democrats to speak up?On Friday, the Democratic mayor of Newark was arrested and detained in his own city by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents. His crime? Trying to gain access and inspection rights to a privately operated detention center that he says is in violation of multiple city lawsuits.Three Democratic members of Congress accompanied Ras Baraka to the Delaney Hall facility in Newark, as they exercised their own congressionally mandated right to enter Ice detention facilities for oversight purposes, without prior notice.On 8 May, Ice agents “held a young girl’s face to the ground” while they detained her mother in Worcester, Massachusetts. A video of the incident from Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra shows the teenage girl screaming as multiple agents and officers chase her and grab her legs.On 7 May, Ice agents detained Jensy Machado, a US citizen, in northe...

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4 w. ago Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student held by Ice, vows to continue legal action after jail release

PhD student says she is excited to get back to her studies during what has been a ‘very difficult’ timeA Tufts University student from Turkey has returned to Boston, one day after being released from a Louisiana immigration detention center where she was held for more than six weeks after being arrested for her political speech. Rümeysa Öztürk told reporters at Logan Airport on Saturday that she was excited to get back to her studies during what has been a “very difficult” period. “In the last 45 days, I lost both my freedom and also my education during a crucial time for my doctoral studies,” she said. “But I am so grateful for all the support, kindness and care.” A federal judge ordered Öztürk’s release Friday pending a final decision on her claim that she was illegally detained following an op-ed she co-wrote last year criticizing her university’s response to Israel and the war in Gaza.She filed a lawsuit challenging her detention now assigned to US district judge William Session...

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4 w. ago Tufts scholar Rumeysa Ozturk released from ICE detention after judge raises ‘serious’ First Amendment and due process questions

PhD student imprisoned in Louisiana detention center testifies in orange prison jumpsuit

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last month Judge orders release on bail of Tufts student battling deportation order

Judge says detainment of Rümeysa Öztürk, who was arrested for political speech, ‘raises very significant due process concerns’US politics live – latest updatesA federal judge in Vermont on Friday morning ordered the release on bail of a Tufts University student arrested in March for her political speech and now held in Louisiana in what she and her lawyers argue is a breach of her constitutional rights.The judge had ordered Rümeysa Öztürk’s return to Vermont, where she was briefly held after being grabbed on the street by masked immigration agents near Boston, for hearings. But the judge decided not to wait for her physical transportation and she appeared remotely from Louisiana at the hearing in Burlington on Friday. Continue reading...

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last month Judge orders Tufts scholar Rumeysa Ozturk released from ICE detention after ‘serious’ First Amendment and due process questions

PhD student has been imprisoned in Louisiana detention center for more than six weeks

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