2 h. ago ‘We got our a***s kicked’: Steve Bannon shreds Elon Musk after Wisconsin loss

The White House chief strategist from the first Trump administration says the tech billionaire made himself ‘too central’ in the critical judicial race

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6 h. ago Was the deportation ruling a win for the Trump administration or immigrants?

The supreme court allowed the wartime law but impeded reliance on deportation without due process – here’s what to knowThe US supreme court may have ruled that the Trump administration could continue using an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants it accused of being gang members – but it also notably impeded the government’s reliance on summary deportation without due process in such situations.Monday’s emergency ruling lifted a temporary block on the controversial deportations. The legal challenge to the removals had been brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the organization Democracy Forward on behalf of the men deported to El Salvador last month without so much as a court hearing. The organizations argued that the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it bypassed immigration laws and ordered their removal under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, or AEA. The US government last invoked the law to detain Japanese, Italian and German nationals durin...

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6 h. ago Was the supreme court’s deportation ruling a win for Trump or immigrants?

The justices allowed the wartime law but impeded reliance on deportation without due process – here’s what to knowThe US supreme court may have ruled that the Trump administration could continue using an 18th-century wartime law to deport Venezuelan immigrants it accused of being gang members – but it also notably impeded the government’s reliance on summary deportation without due process in such situations.Monday’s emergency ruling lifted a temporary block on the controversial deportations. The legal challenge to the removals had been brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the organization Democracy Forward on behalf of the men deported to El Salvador last month without so much as a court hearing. The organizations argued that the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it bypassed immigration laws and ordered their removal under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, or AEA. The US government last invoked the law to detain Japanese, Italian and German nationals during t...

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20 h. ago Trump reportedly to cut grant for key US steel project in Vance’s home town

Outcry as CNN reports president to stop funds for program that would have created jobs in Middletown, OhioDespite promises to bolster the US manufacturing industry, the Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut a key program that invests in some of the biggest manufacturing industries in the US, including in JD Vance’s home town of Middletown, Ohio.Donald Trump is looking to slash a $500m grant from the Biden administration that was slated for Cleveland-Cliffs, a steel manufacturing giant in America’s rust belt, according to reporting from CNN. The grant was intended to help the company upgrade its ageing blast furnaces, so they would be powered by hydrogen, natural gas and electricity instead of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago US supreme court blocks ruling that 16,000 fired federal workers must be rehired

Probationary employees laid off in Trump administration’s purge lose reinstatement in 7-2 ruling over legal standingUS politics live – latest updatesThe US supreme court has handed Donald Trump a reprieve from a judge’s ruling that his administration must rehire 16,000 probationary workers fired in its purge of the federal bureaucracy.A day after ruling in the White House’s favor to allow the continued deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members, the court gave the White House a less clear-cut victory in halting the order by a California court that dismissed workers from six government agencies must be rehired. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago After decades of sex abuse complaints, a NY pediatrician is ordered to pay $1.6B to over 100 women

A New York court has awarded $1.6 billion to more than 100 women who say they were sexually abused by a former pediatrician on Long Island

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22 h. ago Man pleads guilty to trying to kill Brett Kavanaugh at judge’s home

Nicholas Roske, of Simi Valley, California, faces up to life in prison over incident in Maryland in June 2022 A California man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to kill Brett Kavanaugh at the US supreme court justice’s home in a suburb of Washington DC nearly three years ago.Nicholas Roske was arrested near Kavanaugh’s home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, in June 2022. Roske was armed with a gun and a knife, was carrying zip ties and was dressed in black when he arrived in the neighborhood by taxi just after 1am, authorities said. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Trump touts Supreme Court deportation ruling as a major victory, but legal fight is far from over

The Trump administration is touting a Supreme Court ruling allowing it to resume deportations under the Alien Enemies Act as a major victory, but the immigration fight is far from over

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26 h. ago Karen Read asks Supreme Court to delay her trial over ‘double jeopardy’

The 45-year-old is accused of striking her Boston cop boyfriend John O’Keefe with her SUV in 2022

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28 h. ago Trump will help plant a sapling to replace a historic White House tree cut down over safety concerns

President Donald Trump is set to help plant a sapling to replace a historic White House tree that had to be cut down due to safety concerns

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31 h. ago Supreme Court backs Trump over Venezuelan deportations but insists on due process: Live

Decision allows president to continue summarily deporting alleged gang members to El Salvador

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34 h. ago Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill 25 people in Gaza as Supreme Court hears Shin Bet cases

Palestinian medics say Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight and into Tuesday have killed at least 25 people, including eight children and five women

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40 h. ago Massive win for Trump as Supreme Court rules he CAN deport illegal migrants using historic wartime act

President Donald Trump scored a huge win in his efforts to deport illegal migrants living in the United States illegally, as the Supreme Court ruled in his favor.

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40 h. ago US supreme court allows deportations under 18th century law with limits

In 5-4 ruling, court laid down terms for invoking Alien Enemies Act, stating any challenges to law must take place in TexasDonald Trump may continue using a 1798 law to deport alleged gang members to Venezuela, the supreme court ruled on Monday, however it will apply certain limits. Any challenges to the wartime law, called the Alien Enemies Act, must take place in Texas, where the migrants were held, and not in Washington DC, the court said.In a 5-4 ruling, the court granted the Trump administration’s request to lift a Washington DC-based judge’s order temporarily blocking the deportations. Continue reading...

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41 h. ago Supreme Court sides with Trump over Alien Enemies Act deportations despite ‘extraordinary threat to rule of law’

5-4 opinion clears path for administration’s swift removals of alleged gang members, for now

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42 h. ago Supreme Court sides with Trump over Alien Enemies Act deportations

5-4 opinion clears path for administration’s swift removals of alleged gang members, for now

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42 h. ago Supreme Court lifts order blocking deportations under 18th century wartime law

The Supreme Court has lifted a court order blocking the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants under an 18th century wartime law

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43 h. ago They married in an ICE detention center. Now they’re fighting Trump after Maryland dad was wrongfully deported to El Salvador

The Supreme Court could decide the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after the Trump administration refused to return the Maryland father deported in ‘error.’ Alex Woodward reports

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44 h. ago Weedkiller maker asks US Supreme Court to block lawsuits claiming it failed to warn about cancer

Global chemical manufacturer Bayer wants the U.S. Supreme Court to halt thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn a popular weedkiller could case cancer

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45 h. ago Supreme Court lets Trump keep wrongfully deported Maryland father in El Salvador prison, for now

Trump appealed a judge’s order demanding Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States by midnight

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