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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…
The head of digital assets and tokenization at one of Germany’s largest asset managers said that USDT and USDC are not stablecoins, from his…
Polymarket has launched a new category of prediction markets tied to private companies, allowing users to trade on questions related to pre-IPO companies —…
In brief Two American men were arrested for their alleged role in entering the zoo enclosure of the viral monkey, Punch. One man reportedly…
from the oh-so-now-you’re-concerned? dept A couple weeks back, Supreme Court watcher Steve Vladeck pointed out a fascinating “tell” by Justice Samuel Alito in dealing…
A Pennsylvania family is suing the federal government, Drug Enforcement Administration officers, and their local police department, claiming the parties violated their Fourth Amendment…
The crypto asset manager argued the market is mispricing Hyperliquid as a niche derivatives exchange instead of a fast-growing “super-app” for global trading markets.…
XRP (XRP) has fallen 12% over the last five days, and the confirmation of a bearish pattern now points to the risk of more…
In brief Power availability is the central bottleneck in AI infrastructure buildout, says Bernstein, following a reported Google/Blackstone AI cloud alliance. Bitcoin miners collectively…