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• Law launching deportation of Columbia student was condemned in 1996 by a judge – Donald Trump’s sister

  14-03-2025 21:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Arrested student’s lawyers argue that deportation order violates First Amendment
  
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• Judge incredulous in Trump deportation case as administration lawyers argue verbal court order isn’t binding – live

  18-03-2025 00:39 via theguardian.com
  Judge in Trump deportation case calls administration lawyers’ argument a ‘heck of a stretch’White House denies violating judge’s order with Venezuela deportationsWhat is the Alien Enemies Act and how is Trump using it?The justice department says that Rasha Alawieh, a kidney specialist working in Rhode Island who was deported to Lebanon despite having a US visa, had “sympathetic” photos and videos of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, according to Politico.Alawieh
  
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• White House removes advisory defining gun violence as a public health issue

  18-03-2025 00:38 via theguardian.com
  Webpage listing statistics and information on shootings taken down as Trump seeks to protect second amendmentThe Trump administration has removed former surgeon general Vivek Murthy’s advisory on gun violence as a public health issue from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ website. This move was made to comply with Donald Trump’s executive order to protect second amendment rights, a White House official told the Guardian.The “firearm violence in America&rdquo
  
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• Australia news live: Dutton says referendum may be needed so government can deport dual citizens; David Warner teases potential move to politics

  18-03-2025 00:35 via theguardian.com
  The opposition leader has defended the cost of his referendum proposal – despite his ongoing criticism of the voice referendum as being too expensive. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabour-hire flight attendants to get pay boostMore than 750 domestic flight attendants funnelled to Qantas by labour-hire firms will get a hefty pay boost, AAP reports, in what is being hailed as a victory for “same job, same pay” laws.Some o
  
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• US Institute of Peace says Doge workers have broken into its building

  18-03-2025 00:33 via theguardian.com
  Staffers of Musk’s Doge enter despite non-profit saying it is an independent agency and not part of executive branchEmployees of Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) have entered the US Institute of Peace despite protests from the non-profit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an independent agency.The organization’s CEO, George Moose, said: “DOGE has broken into our building.” Police cars were outside
  
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• Trump revokes Secret Service detail for Joe Biden’s children

  18-03-2025 00:16 via theguardian.com
  
  President made change effective ‘immediately’ to security protection for Hunter and Ashley after a reporter’s inquiryUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump said Monday he was ending “immediately” the Secret Service protection details assigned to Democrat Joe Biden’s adult children, which the former president had extended to July shortly before leaving office in January.Trump posted his intention on Truth Social after a reporter asked him about Hun
  
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• US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building

  17-03-2025 23:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  Employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an independent agency
  
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• Brown warns its international students and professors after university doctor is deported to Lebanon

  17-03-2025 23:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  In a campus-wide email, Russell Carey, Brown’s executive vice president for planning and policy, encouraged those intending to travel outside the U.S. to wait until more information was available from the State Department
  
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• Thousands of Whitehall ‘credit cards’ to be suspended in spending crackdown

  17-03-2025 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Minister Pat McFadden says at least half will be permanently cancelled in effort to reduce wasteful purchasesThousands of Whitehall officials will have their government “credit cards” suspended this week in Labour’s latest crackdown on what it regards as wasteful spending in the civil service.Pat McFadden, the Cabinet Office minister, said on Monday he would freeze almost all of the 20,000 government procurement cards (GPCs) within days with a view to permanently cancelling at
  
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• MAGA is pushing a pardon for George Floyd murderer Derek Chauvin

  17-03-2025 23:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump previously said Americans were ‘rightly sickened’ by Chauvin’s conduct
  
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• MAGA is pushing the idea that George Floyd murderer Derek Chauvin should get a pardon

  17-03-2025 23:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump previously said Americans were ‘rightly sickened’ by Chauvin’s conduct
  
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• Many victims of Channel dinghy tragedy could have been saved, inquiry lawyers say

  17-03-2025 23:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Many of 27 people who drowned in 2021 might have survived if rescue services had searched for longer, lawyers argueMany of the people who drowned in the biggest ever loss of life in a migrant dinghy in the Channel could have been saved if rescue services had searched for them for longer, lawyers for their families have said.Their comments came after the independent Cranston inquiry, which is scrutinising the circumstances surrounding the mass drowning, heard evidence from an expert into survivab
  
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• King Charles hosts new Canadian PM Mark Carney at Buckingham Palace amid Trump’s ‘51st state’ threats

  17-03-2025 23:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Canada’s Mark Carney greeted warmly at both Buckingham Palace and Downing Street as part of first foreign visit of his new premiership
  
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• The economy was always Trump’s strength. Polls show it might be cracking

  17-03-2025 23:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Analysis: Americans voted for Trump because they believed he would lower prices and the cost of living. New surveys show people are losing their faith that he’ll accomplish that
  
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• Elon Musk flexes his big-money election muscle in bid to turn Wisconsin Supreme Court conservative

  17-03-2025 22:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Musk’s involvement in Wisconsin court election is shattering spending records. Wisconsin’s healthcare system could end up paying the price
  
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• Driver admits to causing deaths of three teenagers in Warwickshire car crash

  17-03-2025 22:34 via theguardian.com
  Edward Spencer, 19, had only passed his driving test five weeks before fatal crash in 2023A teenage motorist has admitted causing the deaths of three passengers, who died in a collision in Warwickshire five weeks after he passed his driving test.Police said the case of Edward Spencer showed the “devastating consequences” that can occur if a car is driven carelessly. Continue reading...
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: White House says peace deal ‘has never been closer’ ahead of Trump-Putin talks

  17-03-2025 22:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Comes as Russian official says Moscow will seek ‘ironclad’ guarantees in any peace deal that Nato nations will exclude Kyiv from membership
  
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• German national arrested at Boston airport and his family has no clue why he is being held by ICE

  17-03-2025 22:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Green card holder Fabian Schmidt was arrested at Boston Logan International Airport on March 7 and is currently in ICE detention
  
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• No one could’ve imagined Milwaukee mother would be deported to Laos, former lawyer says

  17-03-2025 22:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Exclusive details: ‘Nobody with any compassion would think that’s any compelling reason’ to separate Yang from her family, her former lawyer, Matt Ricci, said
  
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• National Institutes of Health officials reportedly told scientists to erase mRNA vaccine references on grants

  17-03-2025 22:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started,’ one scientist reportedly warned
  
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• Midwife is arrested for performing abortions in Texas, AG announces

  17-03-2025 21:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, was charged with the illegal performance of an abortion, a second-degree felony in Texas
  
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• Trump uses Kennedy Center visit to announce imminent release of JFK assassination files: Live updates

  17-03-2025 21:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  President attended first board meeting at performing arts venue
  
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• Midwife is arrested for performing abortions across Texas, AG announces

  17-03-2025 21:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, was charged with the illegal performance of an abortion, a second-degree felony in Texas
  
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• Second body identified in Canada landfill amid search for serial killer’s victims

  17-03-2025 21:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Marcedes Myran’s remains found in search mission after Jeremy Skibicki preyed on Indigenous women in 2022Canadian police have confirmed the identity of a second woman whose body was dumped at a private landfill near Winnipeg by a serial killer who preyed on Indigenous women and left their bodies hidden in trash.The Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted police said in a statement on Monday that the human remains found in the Prairie Green Landfill, north of Winnipeg, were those of Marcedes Myran,
  
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• Carney visits Macron and Starmer as he seeks alliances amid Trump trade war

  17-03-2025 21:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Canadian PM stresses importance of ‘reliable allies’ in Paris before travelling to London where he was received by kingCanada is the “most European of the non-European countries”, Mark Carney said during his first overseas trip as prime minister to France and the UK, where he is seeking stronger alliances to deal with Donald Trump’s attacks on his country’s sovereignty and economy.Without mentioning the US president by name, Carney and the French president, Em
  
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• Keir Starmer to unveil drastic disability benefit cuts despite opposition

  17-03-2025 21:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Changes could deny benefits to people who need help to wash or to remember to go to the toiletKeir Starmer will unveil drastic cuts to disability benefits on Tuesday, despite deep opposition from Labour MPs and poverty campaigners, and warnings from economists against making kneejerk savings to hit fiscal targets.In the government’s most controversial move yet, it will announce a package of changes expected to affect some of the UK’s most severely disabled people. Continue reading...
  
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• Gender-affirming care lowers depression risk in trans adults, study finds

  17-03-2025 21:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Transgender adults are disproportionately affected by depression and poor mental health outcomes
  
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• Red Cross had to take £220,000 from disaster fund to clothe asylum seekers in UK

  17-03-2025 21:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Fund is for UK and overseas emergencies but was used to help 12,000 people, some of whom had contracted scabiesThe British Red Cross had to use hundreds of thousands of pounds from its disaster fund to provide basic clothing for asylum seekers in the UK in what it described as an unprecedented intervention.The charity is the largest UK provider of services to refugees, asylum seekers and other vulnerable migrants. It said the decision to seek £220,000 from its disaster fund, which is earma
  
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• White House denies violating judge’s order with Venezuela deportations

  17-03-2025 21:13 via theguardian.com
  Trump administration used Alien Enemies Act to deport about 250 alleged gang members to El SalvadorUS politics live – latest updatesThe White House has denied allegations that it engaged in a “a blatant violation” of a judge’s order by deporting about 250 Venezuelan alleged gang members to El Salvador on Saturday, with the US border czar appearing to contradict the denial on Monday by declaring: “I don’t care what the judges think.”The US district judge
  
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• French official calls for US to give back Statue of Liberty after 140 years because America ‘despises her’

  17-03-2025 21:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the politician should be grateful French citizens aren’t ‘speaking German’
  
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