30 h. ago US appeal court lets Trump send National Guard troops to Portland

A divided US appeal court ruled on Monday that US President Donald Trump can send National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon, despite objections by the leaders of the city and state, giving the Republican president an important legal victory as he dispatches military forces to a growing number of Democratic-led locales. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Justice Department’s request to put on hold a judge’s order that had blocked the deployment while a legal...

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30 h. ago US appeals court says Trump can deploy National Guard troops in Portland

A divided US appeals court ruled on Monday that Donald Trump can send National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon, despite objections by the leaders of the city and state, giving the Republican president an important legal victory as he dispatches military forces to a growing number of Democratic-led locales. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Justice Department’s request to put on hold a judge’s order that had blocked the deployment while a legal challenge to...

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6 d. ago US judge blocks Trump’s plan to fire thousands of workers during shutdown

A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered US President Donald Trump’s administration to halt mass lay-offs of federal workers during a partial government shutdown while she considers claims by unions that the job cuts are illegal. During a hearing in San Francisco, US District Judge Susan Illston granted a request by two unions to block lay-offs at more than 30 federal agencies while the case proceeds. The decision is likely to be appealed quickly, but it offers a reprieve for federal...

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1 week ago US judge blocks Trump’s deployment of National Guard in Illinois

A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday temporarily blocked US President Donald Trump’s deployment of hundreds of National Guard soldiers in Illinois, five days after another US judge blocked a similar deployment in Portland, Oregon. US District Judge April Perry said that permitting Guard troops in the state would only “add fuel to the fire”, after hearing more than two hours of arguments from lawyers for the US government and the state of Illinois, which sued the Trump administration over the...

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1 week ago Radioactive shrimp link prompts Indonesia to ban scrap metal imports

Indonesia has halted imports of scrap metal after tracing radioactive contamination found at an industrial site and in shrimp shipments to the US to local metal processors. The suspension is effective immediately, Bara Krishna Hasibuan, an official with the government task force investigating the radiation findings, said in a text message on Thursday. Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq said the pause aims to ensure that the local steel-recycling industry meets radiation safety standards,...

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2 w. ago Governor says Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’, fixations

In a scathing critique of US President Donald Trump, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based on fixations that stem in part from his being mentally impaired. “This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” Pritzker said in a telephone interview with the Chicago Tribune. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head. He can’t get it out of his head. He doesn’t read. He...

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2 w. ago ‘Trump’s invasion’: Illinois sues to halt National Guard deployment to Chicago

The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago sued US President Donald Trump on Monday, seeking to block the deployment of federalised National Guard troops to Chicago, as hundreds of National Guard troops from Texas headed to the nation’s third-largest city. Trump then escalated the widening clash with Democratic-led states and cities over the domestic use of military forces, threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act as a means to circumvent court restrictions on deploying troops where they...

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2 w. ago Trump orders California National Guard to Oregon after court bars local troops

About 100 federalised California National Guard members were deployed in Oregon after a court barred US President Donald Trump from sending Oregon National Guard troops to Portland and state officials objected to their presence. The troops arrived Saturday night with no prior notice to state officials, and more troops were likely on the way, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek said in a statement on Sunday. Kotek, a Democrat, issued a statement after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced he would...

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2 w. ago Trump orders National Guard troops to Portland, but judge blocks it

A federal judge in Oregon on Sunday temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s administration from sending any National Guard troops to police Portland, Oregon, a setback for the president as he seeks to dispatch the military to cities over the objections of their Democratic leaders. The ruling by US District Judge Karin Immergut followed the Trump administration’s decision to call in troops from California and Texas just one day after she temporarily blocked Trump from deploying 200 Oregon National...

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2 w. ago Trump to send National Guard to Illinois, as he puts pressure on Chicago

US President Donald Trump authorised 300 National Guard troops for deployment to Illinois, over the objection of state officials, as part of his campaign to use state troops to aid federal officers conducting immigration arrests. “President Trump will not turn a blind eye to the lawlessness plaguing American cities,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said on Saturday. The order signals an escalation in the administration’s focus on Chicago, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

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2 w. ago China's coast guard holds National Day celebrations at disputed shoal claimed by Philippines

China's coast guard holds National Day celebrations at disputed shoal claimed by Philippines  Yahoo

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2 w. ago China Coast Guard Holds National Day Ceremony Near Disputed South China Sea Shoal

China Coast Guard Holds National Day Ceremony Near Disputed South China Sea Shoal  The Diplomat – Asia-Pacific Current Affairs Magazine

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3 w. ago World mourns China’s ‘sponge city’ architect Yu Kongjian, dead in Brazil crash

Tributes have flooded in from around the world to Yu Kongjian, the distinguished Chinese landscape architect and urbanist who died in a plane crash in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands near the town of Aquidauana late on Tuesday. Three others on board the single-engine four-seater Cessna aircraft – Brazilian filmmakers Luiz Ferraz and Rubens Crispim Junior, as well as Marcelo Pereira de Barros, a well-known local pilot – were also killed. Yu, 62, who was dean and professor at Peking University’s...

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