5 h. ago ICE shoots ANOTHER person in Minneapolis during night of chaos after Renee Good killing

Minnesota has been plunged into chaos again following the ICE shooting of a man the Department of Homeland Security has claimed was a Venezuelan migrant who entered the US under Biden

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39 h. ago Justice Department accuses judge of abusing power in questioning prosecutor's authority

Justice Department officials have accused a federal judge of abusing his power in demanding that Trump loyalist Lindsey Halligan explain why she continues to identify herself as a U.S. Attorney in Virginia despite another judge’s ruling that she was illegally appointed

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46 h. ago Drugs and gangs exist in Venezuela, but don’t be fooled. Trump arrested Nicolás Maduro to plunder our wealth | Andrés Antillano

The US president invokes the usual suspects – drugs, organised crime, illegal migration – but this is simply a grab for resources and powerIn the early hours of 3 January, Caracas and other cities in Venezuela were bombed and the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, was kidnapped along with his wife by US military personnel. In addition to the 100 deaths recorded so far as a result of the attack, approximately 100 more were caused by US attacks on small boats in the previous months, under the pretext of combatting drug trafficking. Although it seems clear that the real intention of Donald Trump’s administration was to seize Venezuela’s wealth, the initial argument to justify the military deployment in the Caribbean was that it was to fight the illegal drugs trade and stop the flow of migrants that the Venezuelan government was allegedly causing by emptying prisons of criminals and sending them to the US.As a criminology professor who has studied Venezuelan drug trafficking for 20 y...

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5 d. ago Dispute erupts over who will represent former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in court

A lawyer squabble over who gets to represent former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in his New York drug case has erupted, with an ex-Justice Department official asking a judge to let Maduro settle the dispute

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6 d. ago US congressmen ask judge to appoint official to force release of all Epstein files

Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie seek to compel justice department to release full set of filesTwo US House of Representatives members have asked a federal judge to appoint a special master to compel the justice department to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.On Thursday, Democratic representative Ro Khanna of California and Republican representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky asked US district judge Paul Engelmayer to release the full Epstein files, as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Judges warned impact of Irish in courts could undermine confidence in justice

Declassified files also show senior police officer Judith Gillespie raising concerns.

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2 w. ago Venezuelan migrants sent to El Salvador demand justice after US judge ruling

Venezuelan migrants transferred to a prison in El Salvador by the U.S. government are demanding justice

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2 w. ago Photos show Venezuelan migrants spending Christmas at home after abandoning hope of reaching the US

After months on the move through jungles, seas and borders, Venezuelan migrants Mariela Gómez, her partner Abraham Castro and her two children, abandoned their attempt to reach the United States. They returned to spend Christmas back home, part of a growing wave of reverse migration driven by Trump’s crackdown, as U.S. pressure on the government of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro intensifies.

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3 w. ago US supreme court blocks Trump bid to deploy national guard to Chicago

In a 6-3 decision, the high court sided with a lower court ruling that blocked deployment of troops to the Illinois cityThe US supreme court refused on Tuesday to let Donald Trump send national guard troops to the Chicago area, in an important reining-in of the US president’s efforts to expand the use of the military for domestic purposes in historic moves against a growing number of Democratic-led jurisdictions.The nation’s highest court denied the US justice department’s request to lift a judge’s order in October that has blocked the deployment of hundreds of national guard personnel in a legal challenge brought by Illinois state officials and local leaders, who had opposed any federalization of those troops to offer backup to immigration enforcement. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Bari Weiss yanking a 60 Minutes story is censorship by oligarchy | Margaret Sullivan

Weiss ought to cut her losses, green-light the piece, and try to start acting like an editor – not like a cog in the machine of authoritarian politics and oligarchyOne tries to give people the benefit of the doubt. But now, when it comes to Bari Weiss as the editor in chief of CBS News, there is no longer any doubt. A broadcast-news neophyte, Weiss has no business in that exalted role. She proved that beyond any remaining doubt last weekend, pulling a powerful and important piece of journalism just days before it was due to air, charging that it wasn’t ready. Whatever her claims about the story’s supposed flaws, this looks like a clear case of censorship-by-editor to protect the interests of powerful, rich and influential people.The 60 Minutes piece – about the brutal conditions at an El Salvador prison where the Trump administration has sent Venezuelan migrants without due process – had already been thoroughly edited, fact-checked and sent through the network’s standards desk and i...

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3 w. ago Judge rules Trump administration must allow court challenges for Venezuelan migrants sent to prison

A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration must give legal due process to Venezuelan migrants flown to a notorious prison in El Salvador, either by providing court hearings or returning them to the U.S. Judge James Boasberg ordered the government to come up with a plan within two weeks

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3 w. ago Hundreds of rugby players lose brain injury challenge as High Court bid now in jeopardy

In a judgment on Monday, Mr Justice Dexter Dias dismissed the appeals

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3 w. ago Rugby brain injury case suffers huge blow after judge rejects court appeal

Up to 80% of league and 20% of union claims face strike-outAppeal over medical record disclosure denied on all groundsTwo appeals launched by the legal firm representing former players in rugby league and rugby union have both been denied in a significant blow to the ongoing legal action about brain damage caused by the sport. It means that after five years of legal arguments a large number of the claimants in both codes face the risk of having their cases struck out before they come to trial.The appeal judge, Mr Justice Dexter Dias, ruled that the judge presiding over the management of the case, Senior Master Jeremy Cook, had been right to find that the claimants firm, Rylands Garth, had failed to fulfil its obligations to disclose necessary medical material to the defendants, World Rugby, the Wales Rugby Union, and the Rugby Football Union in one case, and the Rugby Football League in the other. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Rugby brain injury case suffers blow after judge rejects court appeal

Up to 80% of league and 20% of union claims face strike-outAppeal over medical record disclosure denied on all groundsTwo appeals launched by the legal firm representing former players in rugby league and rugby union have both been denied in a significant blow to the ongoing legal action about brain damage caused by the sport. It means that after five years of legal arguments a large number of the claimants in both codes face the risk of having their cases struck out before they come to trial.The appeal judge, Mr Justice Dexter Dias, ruled that the judge presiding over the management of the case, Senior Master Jeremy Cook, had been right to find that the claimants firm, Rylands Garth, had failed to fulfil its obligations to disclose necessary medical material to the defendants, World Rugby, the Wales Rugby Union, and the Rugby Football Union in one case, and the Rugby Football League in the other. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Rugby brain injury case suffers blow after judge rejects court appeals

Up to 80% of league and 20% of union claims could be struck outAppeals over medical record disclosure denied on all groundsTwo appeals launched by the legal firm representing former players in rugby league and rugby union have been denied in a significant blow to the ongoing legal action about brain damage caused by the sport. It means that after five years of legal arguments a large number of the claimants in both codes face the risk of having their cases struck out before they come to trial.The appeal judge, Lord Justice Dias, ruled that the judge presiding over the management of the case, Senior Master Jeremy Cook, had been right to find that the claimants’ firm, Rylands Garth, had failed to fulfil its obligations to disclose necessary medical material to the defendants, World Rugby, the Wales Rugby Union, and the Rugby Football Union in one case, and the Rugby Football League in the other. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago What you need to know as Manchester Arena bombing victims set to receive millions in damages

It followed a hearing before a judge at Manchester's Civil Justice Centre

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