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US immigration officers are rising immigration sweeps in Los Angeles once more after the supreme court docket reversed a brief restraining order that banned the Trump administration from stopping individuals based mostly solely on their race, language or job.
The court docket dominated 6-3 in favor of the Trump administration, granting a keep towards a restraining order from one other choose that discovered “roving patrols” of immigration brokers have been conducting indiscriminate arrests in LA.
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What did the court docket’s three dissenters say? “Countless people in the Los Angeles area have been grabbed, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed simply because of their looks, their accents, and the fact they make a living by doing manual labor. Today, the court needlessly subjects countless more to these exact same indignities.”
Home committee releases obvious Trump birthday word to Epstein
Home Democrats on Monday launched a picture of a sexually suggestive letter and drawing of a feminine physique to Jeffrey Epstein from 2003 that seems to bear the signature of Donald Trump.
“It’s time for the president to tell us the truth about what he knew and release all the Epstein files,” mentioned Robert Garcia, the highest Democrat on the panel.
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What does the message say? “We have certain things in common, Jeffrey … Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret,” Trump allegedly wrote to the financier, who was later convicted of intercourse offences and accused of abusing dozens of underage women earlier than he dedicated suicide in 2019 whereas awaiting trial.
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How has the White Home reacted? Officers sought to discredit the word, suggesting the signature was falsified.
Spanish PM accuses Israel of ‘exterminating a defenceless people’
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has stepped up his scathing criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza, accusing Benjamin Netanyahu’s authorities of “exterminating a defenceless people” by bombing hospitals and “killing innocent boys and girls with hunger”.
In the meantime, the US refusal to grant visas to the Palestinian delegation to the UN normal meeting has led to requires a one-day convention on a two-state answer for Palestine and Israel to be moved from New York to Geneva. The Trump administration has blocked visas for about 80 Palestinian officers.
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What did Sanchez say? “Protecting your country and your society is one thing, but bombing hospitals and killing innocent boys and girls with hunger is another thing entirely.” He added that in “exterminating a defenceless people”, Israel was “breaking all the rules of humanitarian law”.
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What’s the context? The UN normal meeting is opening right this moment. 5 of Israel’s allies – France, the UK, Belgium, Canada and Australia – have mentioned they’ll declare recognition of a Palestinian state.
Courtroom rejects Trump’s try to overturn E Jean Carroll’s $83.3m verdict
Donald Trump can’t declare presidential immunity to get off the hook from paying $83.3m in damages to the author E Jean Carroll, a federal appeals court docket dominated on Monday, upholding a jury’s 2024 award towards the president for defamation.
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What did the ruling say? “We conclude that Trump has failed to identify any grounds that would warrant reconsidering our prior holding on presidential immunity,” the panel wrote.
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What are the small print of the case? Carroll, a former Elle journal columnist, accused Trump of attacking her in 1996. Trump mentioned she had concocted the story to promote a memoir. The case led to a separate $5m jury verdict towards Trump in 2023 over sexual abuse (the jury rejected the declare of rape) and defamation.
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A flotilla carrying help for Gaza seems to have been struck by an incendiary system in Tunisia, footage reveals.
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Rand Paul, the Republican senator who chairs the committee on homeland safety, criticized JD Vance for “despicable” feedback supporting the extrajudicial navy killing of 11 alleged drug traffickers final week.
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Israeli officers mentioned Palestinian gunmen opened hearth at a crowded bus cease within the northern outskirts of Jerusalem, killing six individuals and injuring a number of others.
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The French prime minister, François Bayrou, was ousted in a confidence vote on Monday, collapsing his minority authorities.
Stat of the day: Labor union density falls to five.1% in ‘right-to-work’ states
A state of the labor unions report discovered the 26 states with “right-to-work” legal guidelines had a far decrease union density – at 5.1% – in contrast with the 24 states plus DC that protected collective bargaining rights, at 14.2%. Lawmakers Elizabeth Warren and Brad Sherman are pushing to invalidate right-to-work legal guidelines, for weakening labor union energy.
Don’t miss this: Mahmoud Khalil on exile, liberation and Ice detention
Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian rights activist born in Syria, spoke to the Guardian in a wide-ranging dialog after his detention by Ice. “What shocked me at the very beginning, when I was kidnapped, was just how reminiscent that was to cases I witnessed in Syria,” he says.
Local weather verify: Disposable masks breaking down into dangerous microplastics, analysis suggests
An estimated 129bn disposable masks a month have been getting used on the top of the Covid pandemic. There was no recycling system, which means many grew to become litter or landfill. Now they’re breaking down, releasing dangerous microplastics and chemical substances, analysis suggests.
Final Factor: ‘I got a robot massage. Was it as good as a real, human experience?’
“I love massages – I am never happier than when the profane flesh sack I call my body is being kneaded like Wagyu beef,” writes Madeleine Aggeler – so she went to research whether or not a $60 robotic therapeutic massage felt any good.
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