37 h. ago ‘We fear we are next’: Palestinian journalists in Gaza targeted by Israeli smear campaigns

With the Committee to Protect Journalists warning that more reporters are at risk of being killed by Israeli ‘war crimes’, Bel Trew and Nedal Hamdouna hear from those whose work places them firmly in the firing line

Politics

67 h. ago ‘I’m not coming home’: Trump policy holds people in Ice custody without bail

Restaurant worker’s case shows how Trump administration is ‘inflicting the maximum punishment’, experts sayLiset Fernandez spent most of the summer worried about her dad, Luis, but a few weeks ago she got some good news. After being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody for weeks, an immigration judge in Texas granted him release on a $5,000 bond.Luis, came to the US from Ecuador in 1994, had been held in detention at a facility in Livingston, Texas, thousands of miles away from his home in Queens. Liset, 17, had taken on extra shifts working a retail job to support her mom and nine-year-old brother. Luis’s co-workers at the Square diner, a railcar-style greasy spoon in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood for over 100 years, had raised more than $20,000 to support him and his family. Continue reading...

Politics

69 h. ago Kim Kardashian criticised by Homeland Security after slamming Trump's ICE raids

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin has hit out at Kim Kardashian, labelling her "misinformed and detached from...reality" after the celebrity criticised Donald Trump's ICE raids

Politics

3 d. ago Bondi fires justice department employee for making vulgar gesture at National Guard

Paralegal dismissed by US attorney general for ‘inappropriate conduct’ towards troops deployed on the streets of WashingtonThe US attorney general, Pam Bondi, has fired a justice department official for making a vulgar gesture to members of the National Guard deployed in Washington DC on her way to work.The employee, Elizabeth Baxter, was a paralegal at the department’s environmental defense section, according to a memo to her published by the New York Post, which first reported Friday’s dismissal. Continue reading...

Society

3 d. ago Kim Kardashian slams Donald Trump's immigration policies and ICE raids

Kim Kardashian has hit out at US President Donald Trump's immigration policies and the ICE raids that have taken place in Los Angeles in recent months

Politics

3 d. ago By the numbers: the latest Ice and CBP data on arrests, detentions and deportations in the US

The Guardian US reviewed figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection since Trump’s inaugurationDonald Trump campaigned on a platform of mass deportation. Since he took office, his administration has reshaped immigration enforcement across the country. The Guardian US, using data published every two weeks by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), is tracking the number of people the administration has arrested, detained and deported. Continue reading...

Events

4 d. ago DC Man seen throwing sandwich at agent charged with misdemeanor after grand jury declines indictment

A man captured on camera hurling a sandwich at a federal agent in Washington has been charged with a misdemeanor after prosecutors failed to convince a grand jury to return a more serious felony indictment, according to court papers filed Thursday

Politics

4 d. ago Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO has inspired followers, prosecutors say

Federal prosecutors say the man who allegedly killed the UnitedHealthcare chief executive last December has inspired followers, such as the man who killed four people at a the National Football League headquarters last month

Events

4 d. ago Pam Bondi and Kash Patel to testify to Congress on handling of Epstein case and the fallout

The move comes one week after the Department of Justice released Ghislaine Maxwell interview transcripts

Politics

4 d. ago Pam Bondi and Kash Patel to testify to Congress on handling Epstein case and the fallout

The move comes one week after the DOJ released the Ghislaine Maxwell transcripts

Politics

4 d. ago Trump wants to hire ‘any attorney’ to replace dozens of immigration judges he fired — with picks at Bondi’s discretion

Justice Department says attorneys don’t need immigration law experience to preside over deportation and asylum cases

Events

4 d. ago ICE asks permission to use Chicago Navy base as launch pad for its immigration and deportation crackdown

The president campaigned on reducing crime but his militaristic approach has sparked controversy among state leaders and civil rights groups

Events

5 d. ago Trump’s history of praising Pam Bondi after awkward remark about attorney general’s appearance

President Trump says his political career would ‘end’ if he said his highly accomplished attorney general and long time supporter was ‘beautiful’

Politics

6 d. ago Pam Bondi trashed for ‘creepy’ way she keeps addressing Donald Trump to his face

Attorney general’s habit of addressing Trump in this odd manner has been called out by online critics on more than one occasion

Politics

6 d. ago Trump makes 'creepy' comment about Attorney General Pam Bondi in Cabinet meeting

'Look at Pam, I would never say she was beautiful because that would be the end of my political career,' US President Donald Trump said of his Attorney General Pam Bondi

Politics

6 d. ago Fuggedaboutit! NYPD commissioner tells AG Pam Bondi that NYC is safe and doesn’t need Trump’s National Guard troops

Top cop Jessica Tisch met with Bondi for half an hour at NYC’s police headquarters in Manhattan, where she made a case about the city’s declining crime rate

Politics

6 d. ago ICE agents burnt out and struggling with Trump’s immigration crackdown

The Trump administration has pushed for high daily arrest quotas, leading to high pressure on ICE officials

Politics

7 d. ago What to know about cashless bail after Trump's executive order

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday threatening to withhold federal funding from local and state governments that allow cashless bail, arguing that it is a threat to public safety

Politics

7 d. ago Who’s cashing in on Trump’s immigration crackdown? It’s not the American people nor the federal or state governments

Private contractors run many of ICE’s largest detention facilities. Now, with a push to deport more and more immigrants, these companies stand to win big under Trump. Alicja Hagopian reports.

Politics

7 d. ago EXCLUSIVE: ICE to spend $100 million on 1,000 more SUVs to support Trump’s mass deportation efforts

Exclusive: The immigration enforcement agency will take delivery of 100 modified SUVs every two months, for the next 20 months, according to an draft RFP obtained by The Independent

Economics