4 h. ago Private security at ICE jail in Texas accused of choking a handcuffed detainee

Criminal complaint states officer put enough force on detainee’s throat that he ‘tucked his chin down to his chest because he was gasping for air’

Events

6 d. ago The deal that has spurred Apollo’s plan to remake Wall Street

Acquisition of securitised asset business from Credit Suisse has become a cornerstone of private asset group’s strategy

Economics

7 d. ago Texas mother accused of terrorism over claims she bought ammo, gear for son planning mass violence

Authorities say a Texas mother is accused of buying her 13-year-old son ammunition and tactical gear

Events

8 d. ago Now Kristi Noem wants her own pricey new private jet for Homeland Security

Lavish spending on jets seems all the rage in the Trump administration

Economics

1 week ago An English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones

With his brilliant mind and impeccable credentials, it’s little wonder that wealthy clients trusted him with their fortunes. Then they started to get suspiciousEwan McKay is a quiet, trusting man with a lifelong passion for golf. Growing up in the 1950s in Angus, a windswept county on Scotland’s east coast, he found the sport a perfect outlet: a shared activity that reduced the pressures of socialising. Later, as an adult, golfing allowed him to rub shoulders with wealthy farmers who became useful contacts for his expanding business, selling Scottish seed potatoes to English farms. Once he sold that business, McKay had enough money to follow his dreams and create a course of his own.In 2002, McKay bought a plot of land in St Andrews and secured planning permission for a golf course and private members’ club. But two years later, he received an offer of £20m to buy the land. “It was the kind of sum you couldn’t turn down,” he recalled. He made a profit of £13m from the sale, and whil...

Society

1 week 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...

Events

1 week ago Officials in rural Texas are accused of paying campaign worker who told elderly people how to vote: docs

Six people have been charged in a controversial vote harvesting investigation in rural Texas from a scheme targeting older Americans

Politics

1 week ago Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka released after arrest at Ice jail protest

Mayor’s wife accuses government of targeting her husband as video showed him being placed in handcuffs by officialsThe mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, was arrested for alleged trespass at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center in New Jersey on Friday and released after several hours.Baraka was released shortly after 8pm and, after stepping out of an SUV with flashing emergency lights, told waiting supporters: “The reality is this: I didn’t do anything wrong.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Texas jail guard accused of helping and laughing as four inmates killed another prisoner over $40 debt

Bexar County jail detention officer Clemente Lopez Jr., 20, is accused of allowing four other inmates beat 46-year-old Francisco Bazan to death on April 28.

Events

2 w. ago Trump team ordered to move Tufts student from Louisiana ICE jail after it couldn’t ‘take a position’ on her free speech

Federal appeals court gives government 10 days to transfer Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont after DOJ lawyers refused to say if pro-Palestine speech is constitutionally protected

Politics

2 w. ago Brit beautician 'who smuggled £4.6m of cocaine' tried to trick ICE into deporting her to avoid jail

Kim Hall, 28, was caught with 43kg of suspected class A drugs in suitcases at Chicago’s O’Hare airport last August where she was due to get on her connecting flight home to Manchester

Economics

2 w. ago Pictured: US man accused of stabbing British trainee nurse, 23, to death 'in row over a cat' at Texas flat they shared as devastated university pays tribute to student 'motivated by love'

This is the first picture of a man accused of stabbing to death a British trainee nurse at their shared flat in Texas in a row over a cat.

Economics

2 w. ago Palestinians ‘desperate for food but getting bombs’, says UN as it criticises Israel’s Gaza aid plan – Middle East crisis live

Reports say that Israel is planning to use private American security contractors in move that OCHA says falls short of ‘humanitarian principles’China’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Lin Jian, said Beijing is “highly concerned about the current Palestine-Israel situation”.“We oppose Israel’s ongoing military actions in Gaza, and hopes all parties continuously and effectively implement the ceasefire agreement,” Jian said.The government of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, hopes that the Israel Defense Forces’ call-up of tens of thousands of reservists, the threat of the new offensive and the prospect of Israel seizing swaths of territory will force Hamas’s leaders to make concessions.If it fails to do so, then physical possession of terrain will offer useful leverage in future negotiations and allow Hamas to be squeezed further in the meantime Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Man detained after crashing through Jennifer Aniston’s front gate while she was home: police

Police said the man was taken into custody after being hauled out of his vehicle by a private security guard

Events

2 w. ago Memo to Harry: megaphone diplomacy isn’t working. You could write to your dad – only costs a stamp | Stephen Bates

The reaction to the prince’s BBC interview highlights his error in thinking he is anyone’s priority. Time for a reality checkWas the timing deliberate? It did seem so as Prince Harry backed into the limelight once again last Friday evening with his extended lament to the BBC about the fact that he and his wife and children had been denied taxpayer-funded security protection by a wicked establishment if ever they choose to visit Britain again.In the great scale of world events, or even of the royal family, Harry’s private security needs are probably not near the top of anybody’s priorities, but they were enough to knock the local election results and even the picture of a grinning Nigel Farage off Saturday’s front pages. Continue reading...

Economics

4 w. ago Texas mortuary worker accused of dismembering corpses to perform ‘experiments’

Adeline Ngan-Binh Bui, 50, carried out the alleged crimes while employed at Capital Mortuary Services in north Austin

Politics