17 h. ago Appeals court clears way for DOGE to keep operating at USAID

A federal appeals court has lifted an order blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development

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19 h. ago US Naval Academy to no longer consider race when evaluating candidates

White House detailed policy change in filing asking court to suspend appeal by group opposed to affirmative actionThe US Naval Academy has changed its policy and will no longer consider race as a factor when evaluating candidates to attend the elite military school, a practice it maintained even after the US supreme court barred civilian colleges from employing similar affirmative action policies.The Trump administration detailed the policy change in a filing on Friday asking a court to suspend an appeal lodged by a group opposed to affirmative action against a judge’s decision last year upholding the Annapolis, Maryland-based Naval Academy’s race-conscious admissions program. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Appeals court rules Trump can fire board members of independent labor agencies

An appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump can fire two board members of independent labor agencies from their respective posts in the federal government

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21 h. ago Putin’s endorsement of Trump’s Greenland takeover reflects their vision of a new world order

As the US pivots toward territorial ambitions in the western hemisphere, the Kremlin’s support signals a deeper alignment in their challenge to global normsAs JD Vance touched down in Greenland, the Trump administration received an unlikely endorsement for America’s first potential territorial expansion since 1947: Vladimir Putin.Speaking at an Arctic policy forum in the northern Russian city of Murmansk on Thursday, Putin presented a more comprehensive case than any US official yet for Donald Trump’s plan to annex Greenland, crafting a historical argument that sounded suspiciously convenient in terms of Russia’s own territorial designs on Ukraine. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Trumps calls on Supreme Court to let him deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act

Administration wants court to resume summary removals after deporting dozens of immigrants to El Salvador prison

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26 h. ago Former Brazil footballer Dani Alves has rape conviction quashed after appeal

Ex-player was initially sentenced in February 2024Court rules unanimously that conviction was unsafeThe former Brazil international Dani Alves has had his conviction for rape overturned on appeal.In February 2024, a court sentenced Alves to a minimum sentence of four years and six months for the rape of a 23-year-old woman in a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022. As he had already spent more than a year on remand, Alves was released under legal supervision shortly afterwards. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Dani Alves’ sexual assault conviction overturned by Spanish court on appeal

A court last year found him guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022

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28 h. ago Dani Alves’ rape conviction overturned by Spanish court on appeal

The former Barcelona and Brazil right back was previously found guilty of sexual assault in a nightclub in 2022

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50 h. ago Appeals court refuses to halt an order for the rehiring of thousands of fired federal workers

An appeals court in California has refused to halt a judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to rehire thousands of probationary workers who were let go in mass firings

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51 h. ago Environmental campaign group Just Stop Oil announces end to direct action

The group has drawn attention, criticism and jail terms for protests ranging from defacing artworks and heritage to invading motorways.

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66 h. ago Appeals court rejects Trump’s attempt to throw out order that blocks deportations under Alien Enemies Act

Judge James Boasberg is temporarily blocking the administration from removals under the centuries-old wartime law

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67 h. ago Appeals court won't halt order barring Trump administration from deportations under wartime law

A federal appeals court won’t lift an order barring the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law

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4 d. ago Venezuelan migrants deported by the US ended up in a Salvadoran prison. This is their legal status

The U.S. government used an 18th-century wartime law to deport nearly 300 Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, where they were immediately transferred to the country’s maximum-security gang prison

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4 d. ago Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini cleared in corruption case

Swiss Criminal Court clears pair of fraud mismanagementHearing came after appeal against their acquittal in 2022 Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been acquitted for a second time on charges of fraud, forgery, mismanagement and misappropriation of $2.2m (£1.7m) of Fifa money in 2011.The attorney general’s office in Switzerland had challenged a first acquittal in July 2022 and asked for sentences of 20 months, suspended for two years, for the former Fifa and Uefa presidents. However the federal criminal appeals court accepted the two men’s explanation that the payment had been for consultancy work. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Former bank trader Tom Hayes in Supreme Court appeal to clear his name after extraordinary LIBOR downfall

Tom Hayes shared cells with killers. Now he’s fighting to clear his name

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4 d. ago Judge wildly claims Nazis got better treatment during WWII than Venezuelan migrants deported by Trump

A U.S. appeals court judge said that Nazis were given more rights to contest their removal from the United States during World War Two than Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration.

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4 d. ago National security council investigating after Trump officials accidentally text journalist top

Members of the administration, including Pete Hegseth and JD Vance, were on group that inadvertently added Atlantic editorOutrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw-up’White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalistDonald Trump’s forceful attack on the American judiciary hits the appeals court today for a high-stakes hearing over the president’s controversial use of wartime powers to deport foreign migrants.Politico reports that the Trump administration will urge a three-member appeals panel to overturn federal judge James Boasberg’s temporary restraining order blocking use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport planeloads of migrants without due process. Justice Department lawyers will also demand Boasberg be thrown off the case following a ferocious weeklong effort to publicly discredit him led by the president himself. The hearing starts in Washington at 1.30pm ET, each side will be allocated 30 minutes to make their ...

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4 d. ago Appeals court panel appears divided on Trump's deportation of immigrants under wartime law

A panel of appeals court judges appeared divided Monday on a Trump administration push to lift an order blocking deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law

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4 d. ago ‘Nazis got better treatment’: Appeals court judges skeptical of Trump arguments to deport Venezuelans

Judges question whether government can deport alleged Tren de Aragua members without chance to challenge removal

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4 d. ago ‘Nazis got better treatment’ than Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act, says appeal court judge – US politics live

US circuit judge Patricia Millett criticizes lack of due process as Venezuelans were deported to El Salvador without the right to contest their removalDonald Trump’s forceful attack on the American judiciary hits the appeals court today for a high-stakes hearing over the president’s controversial use of wartime powers to deport foreign migrants.Politico reports that the Trump administration will urge a three-member appeals panel to overturn federal judge James Boasberg’s temporary restraining order blocking use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport planeloads of migrants without due process. Justice Department lawyers will also demand Boasberg be thrown off the case following a ferocious weeklong effort to publicly discredit him led by the president himself. The hearing starts in Washington at 1.30pm ET, each side will be allocated 30 minutes to make their case. Continue reading...

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