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The BBC must not be cowed by Trump’s threats

The BBC must not be cowed by Trump’s threats

Alan Rusbridger writes: There’s one way the BBC could retrieve some dignity from the smoking rubble of the past week. It should send Donald Trump a four-word reply to his blustering threat to sue the corporation in Florida for $1bn in damages: “See you in court.” There’s barely a notable news organisation in the US that Trump hasn’t yet sued. ABC News and CBS News have demonstrated the resolve of a jellyfish in stumping up millions to settle lawsuits that…

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British suspend some intelligence sharing, concerned that U.S. strikes on boats are illegal

British suspend some intelligence sharing, concerned that U.S. strikes on boats are illegal

CNN reports: The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The UK’s decision marks a significant break from its closest ally and intelligence sharing partner and underscores the growing skepticism over the legality of the US military’s campaign around Latin America. For years, the…

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Bovino’s ‘American Gestapo’ expected to leave Chicago this week

Bovino’s ‘American Gestapo’ expected to leave Chicago this week

Chicago Tribune reports: Federal immigration agents part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” may soon leave Chicago, according to multiple sources who said the controversial mission was rapidly winding down after a contentious two months of enforcement raids that have set the city and suburbs on edge. Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, the top official on the ground leading the Trump administration’s efforts, was expected to depart Chicago for another assignment within days, and most of the Border Patrol agents under…

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DOJ has lost over 5,000 career employees since AG Pam Bondi took control

DOJ has lost over 5,000 career employees since AG Pam Bondi took control

The Independent reports: The Department of Justice has been hemorrhaging staff under President Donald Trump, with thousands of attorneys leaving and few being hired to replace them, according to a new report. Since January, nearly 5,500 DOJ career employees have quit, taken a buyout, or been fired, according to Justice Connection, an advocacy group composed of department alumni. A Justice Connection spokesperson told The Independent that its estimates are based on both public reporting and non-public information the group has…

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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians

The Guardian reports: Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary. “If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” Daniel, the commander of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank unit, says in Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening. Some of the IDF soldiers who…

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Why a federal judge just resigned from his lifetime appointment

Why a federal judge just resigned from his lifetime appointment

Judge Mark L. Wolf was appointed as a federal judge by Ronald Reagan in 1985. On Friday he resigned. He writes: I decided all of my cases based on the facts and the law, without regard to politics, popularity, or my personal preferences. That is how justice is supposed to be administered—equally for everyone, without fear or favor. This is the opposite of what is happening now. As I watched in dismay and disgust from my position on the bench,…

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Hearings that can last less than two minutes for hundreds of thousands of anonymous deportees

Hearings that can last less than two minutes for hundreds of thousands of anonymous deportees

Caitlin Dickerson writes: One morning in March, as ICE was building momentum in carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation campaign, dozens of people who had recently been detained throughout Virginia were being rushed through preliminary hearings. The government was using Zoom to save time, so Judge Karen Donoso Stevens sat in a mostly empty courtroom, adjourning some proceedings in less than two minutes each. Donoso Stevens yelled at a man to “stop talking!” while his own case was being heard…

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‘Mega detention centers’: ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants

‘Mega detention centers’: ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants

NBC News reports: The Trump administration is exploring buying warehouses that were designed for clients like Amazon and retrofitting them as detention facilities for immigrants before they are deported, a move that would vastly expand the government’s detention capacity, according to a Homeland Security Department official and a White House official. The precise warehouses that Immigration and Customs Enforcement may buy have not yet been determined, but the agency is looking at locations in the southern U.S. near airports where…

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Judge Michael Luttig issues a dire warning to the Supreme Court over Trump

Judge Michael Luttig issues a dire warning to the Supreme Court over Trump

  When Donald Trump was sworn in as president in January, both John Roberts and Trump knew that the oath he was taking was meaningless — it had been rendered meaningless by the Roberts’ edict, Trump v. United States (2024), granting presidential immunity. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent, “the President is now a king above the law.” Commenting on the Supreme Court ruling that effectively turned the president into a monarch by granting unprecedented presidential immunity from criminal…

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Federal officials ban religious gatherings in front of the Broadview ICE facility

Federal officials ban religious gatherings in front of the Broadview ICE facility

Block Club Chicago reports: Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be “no more prayer” in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions. A federal representative delivered the news to a huddle of faith leaders and activists standing outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Friday, speaking after faith leaders were denied entry to the building for the third time Friday. Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills, whose…

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Accounts from the men that Trump sent to El Salvador where they were tortured

Accounts from the men that Trump sent to El Salvador where they were tortured

The New York Times reports: They said they were shackled, beaten, shot with rubber bullets and tear gassed until they passed out. They said they were punished in a dark room called the island, where they were trampled, kicked and forced to kneel for hours. One man said officers thrust his head into a tank of water to simulate drowning. Another said he was forced to perform oral sex on guards wearing hoods. They said they were told by officials…

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The mafia presidency rules through threats of extortion

The mafia presidency rules through threats of extortion

Adam Serwer writes: The Sunday before the New York City mayoral race, President Donald Trump told New Yorkers he might withhold federal funding if Zohran Mamdani won. “It’s gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a Communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money you’re sending there,” Trump told CBS’s 60 Minutes. Mamdani responded to Trump’s threat of extortion—vote for my preferred candidate…

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Steve Bannon warns fellow conservatives if they lose key elections, he and some of them may face jail time

Steve Bannon warns fellow conservatives if they lose key elections, he and some of them may face jail time

TNND reports: Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon warned a room full of conservatives that many of them could face jail time if Republicans lose the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential election. “And I will tell you right now, as God is my witness, if we lose the midterms, if we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison – myself included. They’re not gonna stop,” Bannon said in reference to Democrats. They are getting more and more and…

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How Trump is giving even more tax breaks to corporations and the ultrarich

How Trump is giving even more tax breaks to corporations and the ultrarich

The New York Times reports: With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies and wealthiest investors. The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service, through a series of new notices and proposed regulations, are giving breaks to giant private equity firms, crypto companies, foreign real estate investors, insurance providers and a variety of multinational corporations. The primary target: The administration is rapidly gutting…

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Judge permanently bars Trump from deploying National Guard to Portland in response to protests

Judge permanently bars Trump from deploying National Guard to Portland in response to protests

NBC News reports: A federal judge in Oregon on Friday issued a permanent injunction barring the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard on the streets of Portland in response to protests against the president’s immigration policies. “This Court arrives at the necessary conclusion that there was neither ‘a rebellion or danger of a rebellion’ nor was the President ‘unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States’ in Oregon when he ordered the federalization and…

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ICE detention and surveillance are a bonanza for private companies getting hundreds of millions revenue

ICE detention and surveillance are a bonanza for private companies getting hundreds of millions revenue

NOTUS reports: Business is booming for the private prison companies that operate much of President Donald Trump’s immigrant detention apparatus. Private prison giant Geo Group announced this week that it has seen its largest amount of new business ever in 2025. The company’s executives expect it to translate into $3 billion in revenue next year. Geo Group’s detention occupancy level — 26,000 people — is at an all-time high, according to its latest quarterly report. “We’ve never seen anything like…

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