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A journalist who applied to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of an undercover reporting project says the agency’s recruitment process advanced her application to a purported “final job offer” with a start date. According to the reporter, she clinched to job offer despite minimal screening and her failure to complete required paperwork—raising…
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A video posted on Instagram by Father David Gierlach, an Episcopal priest in Hawai‘i and member of a diocesan social justice task force, has drawn attention for its pointed commentary on national legal and political issues. The video touched on President Donald Trump and his administraiton’s handling of the Epstein files, and other high-profile investigations.…
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President Donald Trump’s dramatic announcement of temporary 10 percent tariffs — rising to 25 percent in June — on goods from eight European nations over the Greenland dispute has rattled diplomatic and trade circles. The move directly targets Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland, linking trade policy to Trump’s…
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump has filed a controversial legal motion seeking to prevent the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee the release of internal files related to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, court filings show. In a motion submitted on Friday, January 16,…
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President Donald Trump has ordered sweeping new tariffs on Denmark and seven other European countries, invoking emergency economic powers in a move that is already facing legal scrutiny and diplomatic resistance across the Atlantic. Under the directive, the United States will impose 10 percent tariffs beginning in February on imports from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France,…
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A Henrico Circuit Court judge has found former neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurse Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman guilty on nine felony counts of child abuse stemming from injuries inflicted on newborn babies under her care at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital. Strotman, 27, was convicted Thursday, January 15, after entering no-contest pleas to all nine charges.…
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A former contract detention officer at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Louisiana has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a woman while she was held in federal custody, a case that adds to mounting scrutiny of conditions inside privately run immigration detention centers. David Courvelle, 56, entered a guilty plea Monday, December…
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Canada has agreed to sharply reduce its tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles as part of a broader trade reset with Beijing, marking a significant legal and economic shift away from the United States’ hardline trade stance toward China. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that Canada will lower its 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles…
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The brief detention of two U.S. citizens by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis has intensified legal and civil liberties concerns over federal immigration enforcement practices, particularly the detention of individuals without charges and the treatment of detainees inside federal facilities. Patty O’Keefe and Brandon Siguenza, both U.S. citizens, were taken into ICE custody…
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Republican Representative Don Bacon (R-Neb.) suggested this week that U.S. President Donald Trump could face impeachment from both parties if he were to follow through on rhetoric about invading Greenland, potentially bringing a third impeachment proceeding against the former president. In an interview with the Omaha World-Herald, Bacon, a veteran and representative of Nebraska’s 2nd…
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