10 h. ago Pam Bondi denies knowing Ice agents wore masks during raids despite video evidence

At hearing, US attorney general claims she’s unaware of reports that officials have hid their faces during roundupsThe attorney general, Pam Bondi, professed ignorance of reports of immigration officials hiding their faces with masks during roundups of undocumented people, despite widespread video evidence and reports that they are instilling pervasive fear and panic.Challenged at a Wednesday Capitol Hill subcommittee hearing by Gary Peters, a Democratic senator for Michigan, Bondi, who as the country’s top law officer has a prominent role in the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policy, implied she was unaware of plain-clothed agents concealing their faces while carrying out arrests but suggested it was for self-protection. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Trump’s top DOJ enforcer Emil Bove says he’s not a ‘henchman’ as he denies bombshell whistleblower claims

Pam Bondi’s chief deputy won’t deny telling prosecutors to say ‘f*** you’ to judges

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25 h. ago Alleged rapist attacked ‘intoxicated easy prey’ in Manchester city centre, trial hears

Mourad Malki, also known as Sid Ali Djelid, denies rape

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38 h. ago Sen. Grassley calls delays at a benefits program for deceased officers 'absolutely unacceptable'

A powerful U.S. senator is calling on the Trump administration to fix a growing claims backlog at the program that promises benefits when police and firefighters die or become disabled in the line of duty

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67 h. ago What to know about debate over protesters and ICE agents wearing masks amid immigration crackdowns

People fearful of being arrested for wearing masks while protesting immigration raids in Los Angeles and other cities have voiced anger over Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents covering their faces

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4 d. ago Dodgers donate $1m to help families impacted by Trump’s ICE raids a day after blocking federal agents from stadium

The Dodgers say they blocked agents from entering their Los Angeles stadium’s parking lots on Thursday

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4 d. ago Los Angeles Dodgers donate $1m to families affected by Ice raids

Team, which said it stopped Ice agents entering parking lot on Thursday, makes donation to immigrant familiesThe Los Angeles Dodgers have donated $1m to assist families affected by two weeks of immigration raids in southern California.The World Series champions also said they intend to form partnerships with the California Community Foundation, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and other organization to continue providing aid to immigrant families. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Moment newlyweds shop for Poundland giraffe masks before attacking stepmum in chores row

Wasif Hussain, 21 and his wife Nabela Tabassum, 19, wore giraffe masks when they ambushed and attacked Arifa Nazmin with a hammer at their family home in Kings Norton, Birmingham

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5 d. ago Couple who wore Poundland animal masks during attempted murder jailed

Wasif Hussain and Nabela Tabassum have been jailed for attempted murder at Birmingham Crown Court.

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6 d. ago LA Dodgers say ICE agents were blocked from its stadium – but Homeland Security insist they weren’t there

Standoff comes in the wake of high-profile confrontations between anti-ICE protesters and police, National Guardsmen and US Marines in downtown LA

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6 d. ago ICE agents asked to leave Dodger Stadium parking lot, team says

The Los Angeles Dodgers organization says it asked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to leave the Dodger Stadium grounds after they arrived at a parking lot near one of the gates

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6 d. ago New York mayoral candidate arrested by Ice: ‘Trump is looking to stoke conflict, weaponize fear’

Brad Lander was manhandled and marched out of the courthouse after trying to shield a man from arrest – but, he tells the Guardian, he’s not backing downAs New York city comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was hauled away by masked Ice agents on Tuesday, all he could think about was whether there was anything more he could do for the man he was trying to help, an immigrant New Yorker named Edgardo.Both men ended up detained, but unlike Edgardo’s, Lander’s ordeal was over after a few hours. By the time New York governor Katy Hochul marched him out of the courthouse – after proclaiming, of his arrest: “This is bullshit” – videos and photos of the officers manhandling him had gone viral. The arrest of yet another elected official prompted widespread condemnation of another sign of the US’s steady slide into authoritarianism. A host of New York politicians, along with a swelling crowd of angry New Yorkers, awaited Lander outside the courthouse in downtown Manhattan. (Andrew Cu...

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7 d. ago Utah college student arrested and faces deportation after information is shared in Signal group chat with ICE agents

Information from a routine traffic stop was shared by an officer in a group chat that included immigration enforcement agents

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7 d. ago ‘To not speak out is to be complicit’: LA faith leaders mobilize amid Ice raids

Since federal agents descended on the city, faith leaders have rallied congregants, protested and devoted resources to serve immigrantsKevin Kang, a pastor at a United Methodist church about 15 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, was furious last Thursday when he heard that the taco stand next door was raided by immigration agents.Not only did US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) target his favorite vendors, he said, they had also used the church parking lot to prepare for a raid on a host of popular Mexican food trucks on Foothill Boulevard, a major street in the city of Tujunga. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Rep. Jim Jordan knew about and shrugged off OSU wrestling sexual abuse, victims say

Republican congressman was an assistant coach at Ohio State University before entering politics but has consistently denied any knowledge of Dr Richard Strauss’s crimes

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8 d. ago New York mayor hopeful arrested for asking ICE if they have a warrant

Brad Lander, who is running for mayor of New York City, was arrested by federal agents on Tuesday after allegedly assaulting an ICE officer

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9 d. ago Ice raids in LA continue as armed agents target immigrant communities

Mayor of Montebello, a suburb east of LA with 79% Latino population, said: ‘This is racial profiling’US immigration raids continued to target southern California communities in recent days, including at a popular flea market and in a Los Angeles suburb where US citizens were detained.On Saturday, as mass protests swept the nation, including tens of thousands demonstrating in LA, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents descended on a swap meet in Santa Fe Springs in southeast LA county. Video showed dozens of heavily armed, masked officers carrying out the raid before a scheduled concert at the long-running event that features vendors, food and entertainment every weekend Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Popular Oregon vineyard owner arrested by ICE agents outside his church: ‘Everything was taken from him’

‘I was crying, I was a mess,’ Moises Sotelo-Casas’s daughter says. ‘He was in chains at his feet’

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9 d. ago Actor thrown off Jet2 flight in 'row over Pringles' hits back after viral TikTok

Mustafa Denizkan, otherwise known as Elunico Hazaver, claims he was unfairly taken off flight LS721 in a spat over some Pringles but denied being “aggressive, drunk and dangerous” on the flight

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1 week ago Brit 'drug mule' Charlotte May Lee facing months in jail without bail claims lawyer

Ms Lee, who denies the allegations, 'doesn't know what happened' as she waits for Thai authorities to determine whether the substance they found was, in fact, cannabis

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