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🇺🇸 Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump convicted of child molestation
[USA]
A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump has been convicted of child molestation and other crimes, after he tried to use an anticipated payout from the Trump administration to silence one vi...
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🇬🇧 Trump’s attempt to indict Democrats for video to troops an ‘alarm for democracy’
[United Kingdom]
<p>Mark Kelly speaks out after grand jury declines to indict six lawmakers over video urging troops to resist illegal orders</p><p>Arizona senator Mark Kelly warned that the Trump administration’s fai...
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🇬🇧 Instagram CEO dismisses idea of social media addiction in landmark trial
[United Kingdom]
<p>Adam Mosseri defends app on witness stand and says critics must separate ‘clinical addiction’ from ‘problematic use’</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/instagram">Instagram’s</a>...
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🇺🇸 Instagram Chief Says Social Media Is Not ‘Clinically Addictive’ in Landmark Trial
[USA]
Adam Mosseri, who leads the Meta-owned app, testified that the company was careful to test features used by young people before releasing them.
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🇺🇸 House Democrats slams Attorney General Pam Bondi's conduct during hearing
[USA]
Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal told CBS News' Nikole Killion that Attorney General Pam Bondi's conduct during a House Judiciary hearing on Wednesday was "out of line" after lawmakers pressed Bondi ab...
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🇬🇧 Former Daily Mail editor tells trial he stopped use of private investigators
[United Kingdom]
Paul Dacre told the High Court he put the "shutters down" on unlawful newsgathering techniques.
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🇺🇸 Watch: Rep. Lieu accuses Bondi of lying under oath on Epstein files surrounding Trump
[USA]
Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of lying under oath about apparent evidence in the Epstein files released by the Justice Department that he says links Preside...
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🇺🇸 Pam Bondi hearing devolves into shouting matches with Democrats over Epstein and DOJ prosecutions
[USA]
Attorney General Pam Bondi lashed out at judges and lawmakers at a contentious House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday that followed reports of President Donald Trump's gripes with her tenure.
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🇬🇧 Marine Le Pen appeal trial ends with presidential race at stake
[United Kingdom]
<p>Judges’ verdict on embezzlement challenge will determine whether far-right leader can stand in 2027 election</p><p>Defence lawyers for Marine Le Pen have told a Paris appeals court she did not orch...
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🇺🇸 WATCH LIVE: Slotkin, Kelly speak after grand jury refuses to charge them over 'illegal orders' video
[USA]
A grand jury in Washington refused Tuesday to indict Democratic lawmakers in connection with a video in which they urged U.S. military members to resist "illegal orders," according to a person familia...
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🇬🇧 Oat-based products cannot be sold as 'milk', court rules
[United Kingdom]
Swedish oat drink company Oatly has lost a long-running court battle over whether it can use the word "milk" to describe some of its products.
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🇺🇸 Fired Former Trump Prosecutor to Run for Congress in Virginia as a Democrat
[USA]
J.P. Cooney, a former top deputy to the special counsel Jack Smith, who led two prosecutions of President Trump, plans to seek election to a newly drawn district in Northern and Central Virginia.
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🇺🇸 Portland Lawsuit Alleges Tear Gas Use by ICE Is a Health Threat
[USA]
A novel lawsuit in Portland argues the chemicals are a health threat that have soaked into apartment walls, furniture and even children’s toys.
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🇬🇧 Britain’s building standards are now so bad, even the super-rich are facing housing misery | Phineas Harper
[United Kingdom]
<p>Residents of the UK’s most expensive flats have won a court case over defective pipework. If their homes are shoddily built, what hope do the rest of us have? </p><p>Even multimillionaires can’t es...
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🇬🇧 Father of pro-democracy activist Anna Kwok first to be convicted under Hong Kong national security law
[United Kingdom]
<p>Officials arrested Kwok Yin-sang after he tried to end his daughter’s insurance policy and withdraw the funds</p><p>A Hong Kong court has found the father of a wanted activist guilty of a national ...
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🇬🇧 Landmark high court ruling finds Catholic church had duty to protect NSW child from paedophile priest
[United Kingdom]
<p>Finding over abuse in Newcastle-Maitland diocese signals major shift in church’s liability to victim survivors</p><p>The high court has delivered a landmark win for survivors of clergy abuse, findi...
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🇺🇸 DOJ fails to indict in case of Democrats' video about refusing illegal military orders
[USA]
President Donald Trump had accused six lawmakers of "seditious behavior" after they urged members of the military to refuse unlawful orders in a video.
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🇺🇸 Georgia Ballot Inquiry Originated From Election Denier in Trump White House
[USA]
A newly unsealed affidavit showed that a criminal investigation into the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., relied heavily on claims about ballots that have been widely debunked.
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🇺🇸 Behind the E.P.A.’s Rush to Repeal the Endangerment Finding
[USA]
The agency is racing to repeal a scientific finding that requires it to fight global warming. Experts say the goal is to get the matter before the justices while President Trump is still in office.
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🇬🇧 Paul Dacre says claims Mail broke law to target Doreen Lawrence ‘bitterly wounding’
[United Kingdom]
<p>Ex-editor of Daily Mail tells high court he is appalled by allegations about its journalists by Stephen Lawrence’s mother and others</p><p>Paul Dacre, the longtime editor of the Daily Mail, has sai...
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🇺🇸 Ketanji Brown Jackson says Supreme Court justices "get along well"
[USA]
Ketanji Brown Jackson told "CBS Mornings" that the justices "have learned how to adapt to being in an environment with people who have very strongly held but different views."
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🇺🇸 Trump EPA reportedly seeks to revoke landmark air pollution rule
[USA]
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin is reportedly expected to repeal the 2009 "endangerment finding" that underpins U.S. climate regulatory efforts.
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🇺🇸 Jury selection begins for grief book author accused of murdering her husband
[USA]
Jury selection begins in the murder trial of a Utah woman who wrote a self-help book about grief after her husband died from a drug overdose. Prosecutors allege Kouri Richins gave her husband the dead...
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🇬🇧 Instagram and YouTube 'engineer addiction' in young people, landmark trial hears
[United Kingdom]
Instagram and YouTube have been accused of "engineer[ing] addiction in children's brains", in the opening statements of a landmark social media trial taking place in LA.
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🇬🇧 Sydney author guilty of child abuse after book, Daddy’s Little Toy, depicted adult role-playing as toddler
[United Kingdom]
<p>Christian charity executive, Lauren Mastrosa, pen name Tori Woods, found to have written novel that ‘sexually objectifies children’</p><ul><li><p><em><strong>Warning: </strong>This article contains...
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🇺🇸 A Campaign to Revoke the Endangerment Finding Appears Near ‘Total Victory’
[USA]
A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.
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🇬🇧 Hong Kong leader celebrates Jimmy Lai's sentence - as plan to enhance security law published
[United Kingdom]
The leader of Hong Kong has celebrated the 20-year jail sentence given to British pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai, saying the media tycoon had "poisoned" the city.
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🇺🇸 Social media giants accused of "addicting the brains of children" as trial begins
[USA]
Instagram's parent company Meta and Google's YouTube dispute claims that their platforms deliberately addict and harm children.
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🇬🇧 Judge rejects Trump administration effort to deport pro-Palestinian Tufts student
[United Kingdom]
<p>Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested as part of the government’s targeting of students protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza</p><p>An immigration judge has rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to d...
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🇺🇸 Trump Administration Abandons Steve Bannon Conviction
[USA]
The longtime Trump ally served four months in prison on contempt of Congress charges for refusing to testify to the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Related: #Politics, #Justice