5+ hour, 31+ min ago   (271+ words) US President Donald Trump has said he would like to abolish the agency. A United States federal judge has ruled the Trump administration acted unlawfully by ordering job cuts at the federal agency in charge of responding to the country’s…...

6+ hour, 1+ min ago   (358+ words) The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was created in 1996, but had never been used before Nazira Haji Zada’s case. An Afghan woman accused of supporting the ISIL (ISIS) armed group has been deported from the United States in the first case…...

7+ hour, 7+ min ago   (183+ words) With the US midterm elections just weeks away, Donald Trump’s administration is trying to put a positive spin on a war with Iran that shows no sign of letting up. Climbing fuel and grocery prices, the president’s provocative social media…...

9+ hour, 48+ min ago   (413+ words) The ruling says the Energy Department exceeded its authority by extending the plant’s operation. A federal appeals court has ruled that the United States Energy Department exceeded its authority when it ordered a coal-fired power plant in the US state…...

9+ hour, 30+ min ago   (526+ words) FIFA Legal Committee accused of evading questions on controversial World Cup proposal put forward by Gianni Infantino. Denmark’s football chief has alleged that ‌‌FIFA declined to answer “critical questions” at a Legal Committee meeting about its proposal to sell commercial…...

15+ hour, 35+ min ago   (892+ words) The CIA have declassified documents showing US presidents were warned about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda before 9/11. Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, the CIA has released a series of presidential briefing documents showing what United States leaders had been…...

15+ hour, 45+ min ago   (258+ words) The ‘War on Terror’ gave far-right Islamophobia legitimacy, reach and electoral force. Before September 11, far right parties in Europe had been largely marginalised within the continent’s multi-party systems. Even where some won significant electoral support, many remained politically stigmatised or…...

16+ hour, 6+ min ago   (372+ words) Luis Pacheco and three other Indigenous ex-leaders cleared of charges over 2023 Guatemala protests. A Guatemalan court has cleared a deputy minister and three other Indigenous leaders of terrorism charges, brought over their role in leading protests against a prosecutor accused…...

19+ hour, 45+ min ago   (1416+ words) The events of September 11, 2001 spawned a new lexicon which effectively sanitised the erosion of human rights. In the years after the September 11 attacks on New York City’s World Trade Center, a whole new vocabulary of war, laced with the language…...