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US halts online asylum appointments at Texas crossing after extortion warnings
US halts online asylum appointments at Texas crossing after extortion warnings
U.S. authorities have halted mobile app appointments to admit asylum-seekers at a Texas border crossing after advocates warned U.S. authorities that migrants are being extorted there
2023-06-13 01:12
Three missing British tourists confirmed dead after Egypt boat fire
Three missing British tourists confirmed dead after Egypt boat fire
Three British tourists died after a boat in Egypt's Red Sea caught fire on Sunday, British holiday company Scuba Travel said on Monday.
2023-06-13 00:12
Vatican court convicts climate activists for damaging statue, fines them more than 28,000 euros
Vatican court convicts climate activists for damaging statue, fines them more than 28,000 euros
A Vatican court has convicted two environmental activists of aggravated damage after they glued their hands to an ancient statue in the Vatican Museums in a protest to draw attention to climate change
2023-06-12 23:32
Biden gets root canal, cancels event after reporting dental pain
Biden gets root canal, cancels event after reporting dental pain
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON U.S. President Joe Biden will skip an event on his public schedule on Monday
2023-06-12 23:11
Trump to fly to Florida to face charges in documents case
Trump to fly to Florida to face charges in documents case
By Nathan Layne and Susan Heavey Former President Donald Trump flies to Miami on Monday to face criminal
2023-06-12 23:09
Crews begin demolishing remains of collapsed Iowa building
Crews begin demolishing remains of collapsed Iowa building
Crews have started demolishing the remains of a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, that partially collapsed more than two weeks ago
2023-06-12 22:35
Suspect in Idaho student killings wants more time to respond to prosecutor's request for alibi
Suspect in Idaho student killings wants more time to respond to prosecutor's request for alibi
Bryan Kohberger -- charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death last year -- is asking a judge for more time to decide whether to offer a formal alibi in the case.
2023-06-12 21:05
Who is Aileen Cannon? The Trump-appointed judge overseeing his classified documents case
Who is Aileen Cannon? The Trump-appointed judge overseeing his classified documents case
A Florida district judge assigned to oversee Donald Trump’s classified documents case is attracting criticism ahead of his court appearance in Miami – given that it was Mr Trump himself who elevated her to the bench three years ago. Unless she chooses to recuse herself, Aileen Cannon, a federal judge with the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, will be placed in charge of the timing and progression of the criminal case as well as rulings on motions brought by the defence and prosecution. If the former president is then convicted, she would also be tasked with handing down a sentence to the very man who nominated her to that position. Mr Trump is charged with 37 felony counts related to the mishandling of presidential records, including highly-sensitive national defence information, since his departure from the White House in January 2021. He has so far insisted that he he is “an innocent man” in angry statements and postings to Truth Social, alleging that he is the victim of “rabid wolves” and the “weaponisation” of the justice system by the “corrupt” Joe Biden administration, even as the indictment revealed photos of boxes of files stacked high in the glitzy ballrooms and bathrooms of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. Angela Noble, the court’s chief clerk, has insisted that “normal procedures were followed” in assigning Judge Cannon and magistrate judge Bruce Reinhart to the case after their names appeared on Thursday’s summons. However, Judge Cannon has already come under fire for delivering rulings widely considered favourable to Mr Trump over the course of the investigation into the classified documents. After the FBI executed a search warrant in August 2022 to enter Mar-a-Lago and search for classified documents, lawyers for Mr Trump filed a complaint arguing that the search had been illegitimate and unconstitutional. Judge Cannon subsequently issued an order prohibiting the US government from “further review and use of any of the materials” seized from Mar-a-Lago “for criminal investigative purposes”. The ruling attracted concern in legal circles as an unprecedented instance of a federal judge assuming the authority to halt a pre-indictment criminal investigation into a suspect. Her ruling was later reversed by the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Judge Cannon also last year sided with Mr Trump’s request that an independent special master be appointed to review the documents before they could be examined by the Justice Department, a decision that was branded “deeply flawed” by Mr Trump’s own former attorney general Bill Barr. After appointing special master Raymond Dearie, Judge Cannon then overruled a number of his procedural proposals and sided with Mr Trump’s attorneys on several key points. The appeals court ruled that Judge Cannon had “improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction” and directed her to stand down from the case. Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern called that decision “one of the most humiliating appellate smackdowns in recent history, a total demolition of literally every action that Cannon had taken from the outset of the case”, also labelling the judge “a venal mediocrity”. He also suggested that the “total lack of principle” and “evident incapacity to experience shame” was likely to prove beneficial to Mr Trump once again this summer. Judge Cannon is of American-Cuban descent and was born in Cali, Colombia, in 1981. She was raised in Miami where she attended the Ransom Everglades School, then Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and then the University of Michigan Law School. She clerked for an appellate judge in Iowa for one year after graduating, then worked for the corporate law firm Gibson Dunn in Washington DC, from 2009 to 2012 and then as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida, based out of Fort Pierce, from 2013 to 2020. Following her nomination by Mr Trump, she was confirmed as a federal judge by the US Senate in November 2020 in the dying days of his one-term administration. Her appointment to the bench came just 12 years after she first qualified to practice law, the minimum experience the American Bar Association requires nominees to have. Judge Cannon is a registered Republican, has been a member of the conservative Federalist Society since 2005 and reportedly donated $100 to Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s gubernatorial election campaign in 2018. Read More Trump news – latest: Trump heads to Miami ahead of arraignment as Bill Barr says ex-president is ‘toast’ Trump’s favourability rises in poll despite indictment Jonathan Turley tells Fox News the Trump indictment is ‘extremely damning’ and a ‘hit below the waterline’ Ivanka and Jared split over attending Trump 2024 launch – follow live Why was Donald Trump impeached twice during his first term? Four big lies Trump told during his 2024 presidential announcement
2023-06-12 20:37
UK's Sunak faces down critics after Boris Johnson honours row
UK's Sunak faces down critics after Boris Johnson honours row
By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday he had rejected a plea from Boris
2023-06-12 19:36
Reactions to death of former Italian PM, media mogul Silvio Berlusconi
Reactions to death of former Italian PM, media mogul Silvio Berlusconi
MILAN Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a billionaire businessman who created Italy's largest media company before transforming
2023-06-12 19:01
US decides to rejoin UNESCO and pay back dues, to counter Chinese influence
US decides to rejoin UNESCO and pay back dues, to counter Chinese influence
U.N. cultural and scientific agency UNESCO has announced that the United States plans to rejoin — and pay more than $600 million in back dues — after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organization’s move to include Palestine as a member
2023-06-12 18:24
Paris street submerged by water as heavy rain hits French capital
Paris street submerged by water as heavy rain hits French capital
Footage shows water submerging a street in Paris after heavy rain hit the French capital over the weekend. The video was captured in the city’s Jourdain neighbourhood. Violent storms battered Île-de-France on Sunday, with flooding from various places reported across the region, including Paris. Traffic was affected by the severe weather and yellow warnings for thunderstorms were issued for Monday. French website Meteo Express reported 20mm of rain in just 10 minutes and as a consequence of the flooding, some train stations across Paris were left flooded. Read More Tourist standing at top of Eiffel Tower captures smoke billowing from Paris fire Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi dies aged 86 Watch: Lava spouts from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano during spectacular eruption
2023-06-12 17:41
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