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Protesters bearing placards outside the event
Protestors accuse Trump of corruption as he hosts crypto gala dinner
SAN FRANCISCO — US President Donald Trump has hosted top purchasers of the cryptocurrency that bears his name at a gala dinner, an event that protesters and his Democrat opponents branded as "corrupt".$TRUMP was launched shortly before his inauguration in January, initially rocketing in value before falling sharply afterward."It's fundamentally corrupt - a way to buy access to the President," Democrat senator Chris Murphy wrote on X.Protesters gathered outside the event on Thursday night, which was held at a golf course near Washington DC, some carrying signs reading "stop crypto corruption" and "no kings."The White House has rejected the accusations, and in a video of the dinner posted on social media, Trump is seen saying "I always put...
May 23, 2025

Protestors accuse Trump of corruption as he hosts crypto gala dinner

In this image taken from video provided by WJLA, law enforcement works the scene after two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington were shot and killed
Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead in Washington
WASHINGTON — Two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington were shot and killed on Wednesday evening near the Capital Jewish Museum after an assailant approached a group of four people and opened fire, authorities said.According to Police Chief Pamela Smith, law enforcement apprehended the suspect on site. The gunman yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested, Smith said."Once in handcuffs, the suspect identified where he discarded the weapon, and that weapon has been recovered, and he implied that he committed the offense," she explained at a press conference in Washington.The man has been identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago. Witnesses told the press he entered the museum visibly distressed after the shooting. Some of those present...
May 22, 2025

Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead in Washington

Cyril Ramaphosa
Ramaphosa keeps cool during Trump's choreographed onslaught
WASHINGTON — Three months into Donald Trump's second term, foreign leaders should be aware that a coveted trip to the Oval Office comes with the risk of a very public dressing down, often straying into attempts at provocation and humiliation.Wednesday's episode with South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was a classic of its kind, with the added twist of an ambush involving dimmed lights, a lengthy video screening and stacks of news story clippings.As television cameras rolled, and after some well-tempered discussion, Trump was asked by a journalist about what it would take for him to be convinced that discredited claims of "white genocide" in South Africa are untrue.Ramaphosa responded first, by saying the president would have to "listen to the voices of...
May 22, 2025

Ramaphosa keeps cool during Trump's choreographed onslaught

The entrance to The Port Isabel Detention Center is seen after a media tour hosted by U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Harlingen Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), in Los Fresnos, Texas, June 10, 2024
Judge warns US deportations to South Sudan may breach court order
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has warned that US President Donald Trump's administration could be held in contempt of court for deporting a group of migrants to South Sudan.Judge Brian Murphy said the removals could violate his order last month barring the US government from sending migrants to third countries without being given "meaningful opportunity" to challenge their deportation.In an emergency submission to the judge, immigration attorneys said a flight carrying a dozen people had landed in South Sudan on Tuesday.It is the latest showdown between Trump and the federal courts as the Republican president seeks to deliver on a campaign pledge for mass deportations.Attorneys from the National Immigration Litigation Alliance asked Judge Murphy on Tuesday for an emergency...
May 21, 2025

Judge warns US deportations to South Sudan may breach court order

Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIve
US congresswoman charged with assault outside immigration center
NEWARK — Federal authorities have charged Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver with two counts of assault after a confrontation with officers outside an immigration detention center.Alina Habba — the interim US attorney for the state and a former personal attorney to President Donald Trump — initially announced the charges in a social media post late on Monday.Habba also said that her office would drop a trespassing case against the mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, who is also a Democrat.Scuffles broke out when McIver, Baraka and others paid an oversight visit to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) center in Newark on 9 May. No injuries were reported.The Democratic lawmakers were visiting Delaney Hall, which can hold up to 1,000 people and was touted by the Department of...
May 21, 2025

US congresswoman charged with assault outside immigration center

The sheriff's office said the inmates escaped by removing a toilet, as well as some metal bars behind it
Arrested maintenance worker says he was forced to assist New Orleans jail break
NEW ORLEANS — Police have arrested a maintenance worker who is suspected of helping 10 inmates break out of a New Orleans jail on Friday, Louisiana's attorney general has announced.The employee, identified as 33-year-old Sterling Williams, was arrested on Monday night.Williams is accused of turning off the water to the cell that was used for the escape, which involved removing a toilet from the wall. He said an inmate threatened to attack him with a "shank" — meaning makeshift knife — if he did not help, according to court documents.Five of the inmates have been recaptured so far, Louisiana State Police said.Police earlier said several of the detainees were facing charges of murder and other violent offenses.Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in her statement...
May 21, 2025

Arrested maintenance worker says he was forced to assist New Orleans jail break

Donald Trump
Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Dome' defense system
WASHINGTON — The US has selected a design for the futuristic "Golden Dome" missile defense system, says US President Donald Trump, adding that it will be operational by the end of his time in office.Just days after returning to the White House in January, Trump unveiled his intentions for the system, aimed at countering "next-generation" aerial threats to the US, including ballistic and cruise missiles.An initial sum of $25bn (£18.7bn) has been earmarked in a new budget bill — although the government has estimated it will end up costing much more than that over decades.Officials warn that existing systems have not kept pace with increasingly sophisticated weapons possessed by potential adversaries.President Trump also announced that Space Force General Michael...
May 21, 2025

Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Dome' defense system

A protester holds a photo of Ashli Babbitt
US to pay $5m to family of 6 January rioter Ashli Babbitt
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has agreed to pay a $5m (£3.7m) settlement to the family of Ashli Babbitt, a US Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by a Capitol police officer while breaching the US Congress on 6 January 2021.Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger told CBS, the BBC's US partner, he is "extremely disappointed" with the decision. The officer involved in her shooting has been cleared of any wrongdoing.The settlement resolves a $30m wrongful death suit filed by Babbitt's family and the conservative activist group Judicial Watch.Thousands of Trump supporters descended on the US Capitol on 6 January in an attempt to halt the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.Babbitt was part of a group that smashed windows in an effort to...
May 20, 2025

US to pay $5m to family of 6 January rioter Ashli Babbitt

Gérald Darmanin visited French Guiana over the weekend
France to open high-security prison in Amazon jungle
PARIS — France will build a new high-security prison in its overseas department of French Guiana to house drug traffickers and radical Islamists, the country's justice minister announced during a visit to the territory.Gérald Darmanin told Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) newspaper that the prison would target organized crime "at all levels" of the drug supply chain.The €400m (£337m) facility, which could open as early as 2028, will be built in an isolated location deep in the Amazon jungle in the northwestern region of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni.The plan was announced after a series of violent incidents linked to criminal gangs which saw prisons and staff targeted across France in recent months.The prison will hold up to 500 people, with a separate wing designed to house the...
May 19, 2025

France to open high-security prison in Amazon jungle

Former US President Joe Biden
Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer
WASHINGTON — Former US President Joe Biden, 82, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, a statement from his office said on Sunday.Biden, who left office in January, was diagnosed on Friday after he saw a doctor last week for urinary symptoms.The cancer is a more aggressive form of the disease, characterised by a Gleason score of 9 out of 10. This means his illness is classified as "high-grade" and the cancer cells could spread quickly, according to Cancer Research UK.Biden and his family are said to be reviewing treatment options. His office added that the cancer was hormone-sensitive, meaning it could likely be managed.In Sunday's statement, Biden's office said: "Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate...
May 19, 2025

Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer

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