Seeking asylum in the US: Fuelled by unprecedented border crossings, a record three million cases clog US immigration courts
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on the huge backlog of cases in US immigration courts…
Updated: US charges Trump with conspiracy for efforts to overturn 2020 election
Updated: 10:20am (AEST)Washington DC, USReuters Donald Trump was indicted on Tuesday for his wide-ranging attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the third time in four months that the former US President has been criminally charged even as he campaigns to regain the presidency next year. The four-count, 45-page indictment charges Republican Trump with conspiring to […]
Trump risked national secrets, US prosecutors allege in indictment
Washington DC, USReuters US prosecutors unsealed a 37-count indictment against Donald Trump on Friday, accusing the former president of risking some of the country’s most sensitive security secrets after leaving the White House in 2021. Trump mishandled classified documents that included information about the secretive US nuclear program and potential domestic vulnerabilities in the event […]
Trump, newly charged, urges defunding US Justice Department and FBI
Washington DC, US Reuters Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on his fellow Republicans in Congress to slash funding for the US Justice Department and the FBI, one day after pleading not guilty in New York to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump, who is seeking to regain the presidency in 2024, […]
In the US, FBI opens sweeping probe of clergy sex abuse in New Orleans
New Orleans, USAP The FBI has opened a widening investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades, a rare federal foray into such cases looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them, officials and others familiar with the inquiry told The Associated Press. […]
US to pay $US88 million to families, victims of Charleston church massacre
Washington DC, USAP Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase the gun he used in the 2015 massacre. The Justice Department will pay $US88 million, which includes $US63 million for the families of the nine […]
US judge orders forfeiture of ancient tablet from Museum of the Bible
RNS A US judge has ordered Hobby Lobby, the arts and crafts chain whose president is Museum of the Bible founder Steve Green, to forfeit an ancient tablet bearing a rare fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh. The clay tablet, roughly the size of an iPhone, was originally brought to the United States by an […]