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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…
21Shares says strong early flows into its new Hyperliquid ETF reflect growing investor demand for around-the-clock access to crypto and traditional assets. Read the…
Key takeaways:Solana perpetual futures funding rates flipped negative, signaling excess demand for bearish positions.Rival networks like Base and Hyperliquid pose direct threats to Solana…
In brief Companies running bug bounty programs report a sharp increase in low-quality AI-generated submissions. HackerOne and Nextcloud both suspended bug bounty programs after…
Jane Doe has sued Amazon.com Services LLC for employment discrimination and seeks to proceed under a pseudonym in all public filings…. In short, Doe…
Mexico City, May 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Mexican authorities to immediately and credibly investigate possible malware and digital surveillance attacks…
The Senate Banking Committee’s top Democrat sent a letter to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency questioning the charters of nine crypto…
5,800 users in two hours. One QR code. One bow that went viral.Some platforms launch with a whitepaper. Some with a token. GraphDex launched…
In brief Google unveiled Gemini Spark at I/O 2026. Spark is a cloud-based personal AI agent powered by Gemini 3.5 that runs 24/7. Spark…