NEW YORK CITY: A Syracuse, New York, woman who says she only recently learned she wasn’t born in the US has been charged with voting illegally, one of the latest arrests touted by the Trump administration as it hunts for noncitizen voters ahead of the midterm elections. Marva Cook was adopted as a toddler and had always assumed she was a US citizen, she told Homeland Security investigators earlier this month, according to the criminal complaint. But in searching for her biological mother, the 66
In his first interview since stopping the gunman at Silver Rail Elementary, Kaylub Giamanco spoke with Oregon Public Broadcasting about the split-second decisions he made that afternoon
In his first interview since stopping the gunman at Silver Rail Elementary, Kaylub Giamanco spoke with Oregon Public Broadcasting about the split-second decisions he made that afternoon
In his first interview since stopping the gunman at Silver Rail Elementary, Kaylub Giamanco spoke with Oregon Public Broadcasting about the split-second decisions he made that afternoon
Their comments followed warnings by Iranian officials that undersea cables in the region could become targets in any renewed conflict if diplomacy with Washington collapses
Steven Shevels died after his head hit the concrete floor of a beer garden on Christmas Eve, with a court finding his own biological son was the one who pushed him
A Tongan court has sentenced Eneasi Taumoefolau to 12 years in prison for participating in an organised criminal group, marking the first judicial application of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crimes Act in Tonga. The sentence follows a conviction for Taumoefolau's efforts in 2024 to establish a local chapter of the Comancheros outlaw motorcycle gang.
Justice Elisapeti Langi presided over the sentencing, identifying the defendant as the president and leader of the attempted chapter. The court's findings were supported by police evidence, which included the seizure of Comanchero uniforms, rank badges, and signs from a storage unit rented in the name of Taumoefolau's partner. The judge characterized the attempt to establish the gang as a structural assault on Tongan society and highlighted the risk posed by foreign criminal syndicates utilizing Pacific nations as transit hubs.
Taumoefolau, a Tongan national who immigrated to Australia as a child, was deported from Australia to Tonga in 2022 following multiple drug convictions. He is currently serving a separate life sentence for the 2025 conviction of importing over 2 kilograms of methamphetamine from the United States into Tonga. The 12-year sentence for gang activity will be served concurrently with the life term.
A Syracuse, New York, woman has been charged with voting illegally in one of the latest arrests touted by the Trump administration as it hunts for noncitizen voters ahead of the midterm elections
A Syracuse, New York, woman has been charged with voting illegally in one of the latest arrests touted by the Trump administration as it hunts for noncitizen voters ahead of the midterm elections
A Syracuse, New York, woman has been charged with voting illegally in one of the latest arrests touted by the Trump administration as it hunts for noncitizen voters ahead of the midterm elections
The designation advances the Trump administration’s push to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign critical minerals, bolster domestic manufacturing and secure key materials for economic and national security, says U.S. Department of Energy
A suspected terrorist attack near Paris Friday added to tensions across France as the nation prepares for more potential violence Saturday.
Seventy thousand law enforcement officers, along with helicopters, armored vehicles and water cannons, will be deployed across France as President Emmanuel Macron’s government tries to ward off another weekend of violent protests.
"The strategy adopted for the coming days is to ban protests requested by individuals or groups with no legitimate authority," Macron said ahead of the weekend after canceling his planned trip to Nigeria and Senegal originally scheduled for next week.
"The rules are simple, and I think they're just common sense," Macron added. "The general recommendation is that there should be no demonstrations in the coming days."
"Where trade unions submit requests to hold demonstrations, prefects will examine them in accordance with the law," he added, "but alternative routes will be proposed" to protect city centers, businesses and public buildings.
Adding to security concerns, a suspected terrorist attack occurred in the city of Trappes, west of Paris. A 39-year-old man was arrested by police after one person was killed and four others, including a 12-year-old girl, were wounded in what was originally said to be a "relatively random" shooting.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has since told local media, "The motive may be racist. The investigation is ongoing, but this is clearly a terrorist crime."
The AFP reported the suspect appeared to fire randomly from a vehicle, and the mayor told reporters the dead victim and at least one of the wounded were "of African origin."
Macron said "the nation is standing with" the victims of this "terrible ordeal."
Ahead of Saturday's protests and after acknowledging that police had "lost control" during last weekend's unrest, Nuñez, the interior minister, said his ministry is "ready for tomorrow. We will be extremely vigilant, extremely firm, and we will let absolutely nothing pass."
Reuters reports that the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France, or UNEF, one of the nation’s oldest student unions, has said its planned rallies will go on as scheduled despite police rejecting their permit requests. Police have so far only approved a union demonstration in Paris, Reuters reported, while denying requests from UNEF and the "Yellow Vest" movement, an anti-establishment force that first emerged in 2018.
Macron also took aim at those he says are behind the violence, saying, "Last Saturday, we had political and seditious acts by ultra-left groups whose aim is to bring down the Republic."
Earlier this week, Fabian Vanhemelryck, secretary general of the Alliance Police Nationale union, said political figures deserved blame because of "those who excuse the inexcusable, justify violence and prefer to overwrite police officers rather than condemn those who attack them."
He also said the "state that abandons its police officers in the face of increasingly uninhibited violence, while demanding that they accept, remain(s) silent and continue(s) to hold the line."
Major French institutions, like the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay, will be closed in anticipation of Saturday’s planned protests, and 24 Metro stations across Paris will be closed. A Ligue 1 soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique Lyonnais, scheduled for Sunday night at Parc des Princes in the capital, has also been postponed to Monday evening.
The NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New Orleans Saints, scheduled for Sunday afternoon at Stade de France just north of central Paris, is still set to be played as scheduled, yet some weekend events around the game have been canceled.
The Stade de France is the same stadium that hosted an international soccer match between France and neighboring Germany during the Nov. 13, 2015 terror attacks.
Explosions were heard outside the stadium during the game that night, with then-French President François Hollande in attendance. Fans were held inside the stadium for hours while authorities dealt with the attacks unfolding around Paris that night.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump is exempting some imports — including plywood sheets, packing crates and some machinery — from the 50% tariffs he slapped on $20 billion worth of Canadian products over the summer
President Donald Trump is exempting some imports — including plywood sheets, packing crates and some machinery — from the 50% tariffs he slapped on $20 billion worth of Canadian products over the summer
President Donald Trump is exempting some imports — including plywood sheets, packing crates and some machinery — from the 50% tariffs he slapped on $20 billion worth of Canadian products over the summer
Kenya has confirmed a second Ebola death involving a 65-year-old woman. The outbreak, originating in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has now spread to multiple African countries.
A US appeals court ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump's administration is not required under the US Constitution to give detained immigrants a chance to seek release on bond.
In a 10-7 ruling powered by its conservative majority, the New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the Constitution's Fifth Amendment due process protections do not require that immigration detainees receive bond hearings.
"To the extent petitioners seek to vindicate a liberty interest to be free from physical restraint in the most abstract sense, they can do so at any moment by agreeing to leave the country," US Circuit Judge Cory Wilson, a Trump appointee, wrote in the decision.
The ruling, if left to stand, would eliminate a key avenue for detained migrants in the three states under the 5th Circuit's jurisdiction — Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi — to argue for release, especially if the US Supreme Court decides the administration's detention practice complies with immigration law.
The Supreme Court this month agreed to consider the issue, which has divided lower courts. Numerous lawsuits by migrants arguing they were being unlawfully detained have flooded the courts as US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, implemented Trump's mass deportation agenda.
The Supreme Court is considering only whether such hearings are required by statute, not by the Constitution, the issue the 5th Circuit addressed with Friday's decision.
While the 5th Circuit in February had adopted the administration's reading of immigration law as requiring mandatory detention, a 2-1 panel of the court in July held that ICE could not constitutionally detain people for more than 90 days without providing hearings to argue for release on bond.
The decision, which came in lawsuits by two Mexican citizens and one Honduran, carried particular importance because Texas and Louisiana, within the 5th Circuit's jurisdiction, house the nation's largest numbers of immigration detainees.
But the full 5th Circuit agreed to rehear the case, and on Friday reversed course, concluding that detained immigrants are not constitutionally entitled to proceedings in immigration court beyond what Congress provided by statute.
"This ruling opens the door to more people being locked up for no reason, with devastating consequences for them, their loved ones and their community," Ellie Norton, a lawyer for the non-US citizens in the case at the National Immigration Project, said in a statement.
James Percival, the general counsel for the US Department of Homeland Security, in a social media post hailed what he called a "big win in the 5th Circuit on mandatory detention for illegal aliens."
Among the dissenting judges was US Circuit Judge Dana Douglas, an appointee of Democratic President Joe Biden, who wrote that "unchecked, executive authority to arrest and detain, indefinitely, echoes fearfully from history."
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