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View More News“This was an Obama judge,” President Donald Trump remarked in November 2018, referring to a decision temporarily blocking his restrictions on asylum applications. “And I’ll tell you what, it’s not going to happen like this anymore.” The ruling that irked Trump involved a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that says “any alien” may “apply for asylum” if he is “physically present in the United States” or “arrives in the United States…whether or not at a designated port of arrival.” Contrary to the plain language of that statute, Trump had issued a proclamation barring asylum applications by people who cross…
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Jason Arday—fantasist, fabulist, fraud, and (until recently) Professorial Chair in the Sociology of Education at Cambridge University—sold a bolus of lies to students, faculty, and administrators, and they gobbled it up like a dish of ice cream on the hottest sunniest driest summer day in English memory. Months earlier, Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher at the same university, was accused by students of racism. Would nobody rid Cambridge of this turbulent scholar? Rid of him it got—through suitably tortuous means.That you and I know about Jason and his Argo of lies owes to Nathan Cofnas, who broke the story by publishing…
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The Trump administration is expanding the footprint of its war on drugs in Latin America. On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Colombia…
The Committee to Protect Journalists and nine other international and local organizations, as part of the Brazilian Coalition in Defense of Journalism, in a…
US investment banking giant Morgan Stanley reported larger crypto fund positions in the second quarter, led by an increase of more than 3 million…
In brief Zhipu AI (now Z.ai) released GLM-5.3 on Thursday through its GLM Coding Plan and ZCode. The lab calls it the “most capable…
AI-powered crypto trading assistant Bankr said it disabled transactions after identifying an attacker who gained access to at least 14 wallets, with users reporting…
The day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Christian Castro shot Minneapolis resident Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg, Kristi Noem, then the…
Crypto markets have turned lower in morning U.S. trade on Tuesday as the idea of coming rate hikes takes a toll on risk assets.…
Asset manager Yorkville America has requested to withdraw multiple crypto exchange-traded funds applications filed on behalf of the Donald Trump-backed Truth Social after changing…
from the buh-bye dept Senator Bill Cassidy just lost his campaign for reelection to his Senate seat in Louisiana. With that, his career in…
Crypto firms are pausing long-awaited IPO plans as weak trading volumes and macro pressures weigh on valuations despite boom in AI-linked tech listings. Read…
A European regulator has partially suspended the operating license of the company behind troubled crypto exchange Zondacrypto.The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Estonia partially…
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