6 h. ago Man sues Tennessee county after he was jailed over meme related to Charlie Kirk killing

Lawsuit alleges that Larry Bushart’s first amendment rights were violated when he was arrested and jailed for 37 daysA former law enforcement officer in Tennessee is suing his county and sheriff after he was jailed for more than a month for posting a meme on Facebook related to the 10 September assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk.According to the new 30-page lawsuit filed this week, 10 days after Kirk’s killing, Larry Bushart, 61, shared a post in the comments of a Facebook post about a vigil for Kirk in Perry county, Tennessee. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Court blocks Michigan ban on conversion therapy on free speech grounds

A federal appeals court has blocked Michigan’s ban on conversion therapy for minors who are LGBTQ+, declaring it violates the First Amendment rights of therapists and counselors

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24 h. ago US government sues US Virgin Islands and accuses officials of violating the Second Amendment

A Second Amendment clash has erupted between the federal government and the U.S. Virgin Islands

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6 d. ago Puerto Rico sues Luma in first push to cancel contract with private power company

Puerto Rico’s government has sued Luma Energy to cancel its multimillion-dollar contract

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6 d. ago Bonnie Blue's dodgy Indonesian 'Bang bus' revealed as she avoids 'hellhole' jail sentence

Officials accused her and her small crew of travelling around the island without proper registration documents and using the truck to film provocative content

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6 d. ago Crowborough residents are taking the government to court over plans to house 600 adult male migrants in army camp

Crowborough Shield, a community-led campaign group, has lodged an application for a full judicial review of the decision to place more than 500 asylum seekers at the camp.

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9 d. ago Walking into disaster: how narcotraffickers captured the BVI

When the new premier of the British Virgin Islands said he needed an armed security detail, his chief of police knew trouble was on its wayAugustus James Ulysses Jaspert, Gus for short, arrived in Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands, on 21 August 2017, just two weeks away from catastrophe. Jaspert, who was in his late 30s, had recently been appointed governor by Queen Elizabeth II, on the recommendation of the Foreign Office in London. The BVI is an overseas territory of Britain, with only partial independence, and the governor effectively acts as a backstop to the locally elected legislature. For Jaspert, a career civil servant, it would be his first hands-on experience of governing – and his first time in the British Virgin Islands. Any trepidation was outweighed by the prospect of moving to the Caribbean. “If you’re sitting in an office in London and someone says, ‘Go to Tortola,’ you look it up on a screen and think, ‘OK, I can do that,’” Jaspert told me.While Jas...

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9 d. ago Walking into disaster: the narcotrafficking scandal that blew up the BVI

When the new premier of the British Virgin Islands said he needed an armed security detail, his chief of police knew trouble was on its wayAugustus James Ulysses Jaspert, Gus for short, arrived in Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands, on 21 August 2017, just two weeks away from catastrophe. Jaspert, who was in his late 30s, had recently been appointed governor by Queen Elizabeth II, on the recommendation of the Foreign Office in London. The BVI is an overseas territory of Britain, with only partial independence, and the governor effectively acts as a backstop to the locally elected legislature. For Jaspert, a career civil servant, it would be his first hands-on experience of governing – and his first time in the British Virgin Islands. Any trepidation was outweighed by the prospect of moving to the Caribbean. “If you’re sitting in an office in London and someone says, ‘Go to Tortola,’ you look it up on a screen and think, ‘OK, I can do that,’” Jaspert told me.While Jas...

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1 week ago Brad Raffensperger sues to win more campaign spending power in Georgia governor race

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is the latest Republican candidate for Georgia governor to attack campaign finance rules that allow Lt. Gov. Burt Jones to raise unlimited contributions

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1 week ago Judge blocks Trump prosecutors from accessing key evidence in Comey case

Government faces setback after judge said it likely violated Comey ally’s protections from unreasonable searchesA federal judge has temporarily blocked prosecutors from accessing materials from a key ally of James Comey on Saturday, making the already uphill criminal case against the former FBI director even more difficult.Daniel Richman, a Columbia University law school professor who has also represented Comey as an attorney, sued the government in November, saying that the government had unlawfully accessed materials from his computer as they charged Comey with lying to Congress. Richman is a close friend of Comey who worked at the FBI. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Louisiana inmates on the run after escaping by breaking through degrading jail wall

Officials in Louisiana say two inmates accused of violent crimes are on the run after escaping from jail by removing pieces of a wall and using sheets to scale a wall

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2 w. ago New bombshell pics show inside Jeffrey Epstein’s paedo island home with spa & bizarre dental room with faces on wall

NEVER-before-seen images of Jeffrey Epstein's private island have been released by US authorities. Chilling photos show the paedophile financier's exclusive property in the US Virgin Islands - with one of the pictures showing a bizarre dental room with faces across the wall. The bombshell images of the convicted sex offender's elusive island were released by...

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2 w. ago Europeans accuse Putin of faking interest in peace after talks with US envoys

Ukrainian and European officials are accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of faking interest in peace efforts

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2 w. ago Trump tells Honduras ‘there will be hell to pay’ as presidential vote count stalls

Intervention is latest by US president whose preferred candidate, Nasry Asfura, is locked in ‘technical tie’Analysis: Trump’s counter-drug effort is ‘based on lies and hypocrisy’Donald Trump has accused officials in Honduras of “trying to change” the result of the country’s presidential election, as the release of vote counts was paused with two rightwing candidates locked in a technical tie.The virtual vote count had been slow and unstable before it was interrupted around midday on Monday. The electoral court said a technical problem was to blame and insisted the manual count was continuing. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot

The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courtsHow do you reckon our political system works? Perhaps something like this. We elect MPs. They vote on bills. If a majority is achieved, the bills becomes law. The law is upheld by the courts. End of story. Well, that’s how it used to work. No longer.Today, foreign corporations, or the oligarchs who own them, can sue governments for the laws they pass, at offshore tribunals composed of corporate lawyers. The cases are held in secret. Unlike our courts, these tribunals allow no right of appeal or judicial review. You or I cannot take a case to them, nor can our government, or even businesses based in this country. They are open only to corporations based overseas.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Teenagers sue government over nationwide social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’

High Court challenge says law imposing ban is ‘grossly excessive’ and infringes on ‘constitutional right of freedom of political communication’

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3 w. ago Australian teenagers sue government saying social media ban violates their right to communicate

High Court challenge says law imposing ban is ‘grossly excessive’ and infringes on ‘constitutional right of freedom of political communication’

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3 w. ago Court official dismisses Justice Department's misconduct complaint against a federal judge in DC

A court official has dismissed a Justice Department complaint that accused a federal judge of misconduct during hearings for a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender troops serving in the military

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3 w. ago Richard Branson's wife Joan Templeman dies as Virgin boss recalls 'love at first sight' with Scot

Sir Richard described Joan, who he married in the British Virgin Islands in 1989, as his 'guiding light'

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3 w. ago Argentina demand investigation into ‘bully’ Tom Curry after alleged tunnel shove

The Pumas have made an official complaint after accusing England flanker Curry of forcefully pushing their coach Felipe Contepomi in the tunnel following an on-field scuffle

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