Stranded, sick, and sleeping in shifts: Court halts deportation; Ice officers, detainees left in limbo in East Africa’s Djibouti

A contingent of men deported from the US to Djibouti, East Africa, are stranded in a converted shipping container alongside US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers who were tasked with their supervision after a court halted their deportation flight to South Sudan.According to US government reports, both the eight deportees and 13 Ice staff […]

Trade war: US-China trade talks in London next week; Trump says ‘meeting should go very well’

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are all set to meet officials in London on Monday for trade negotiations, President Donald Trump announced on Friday.“The meeting should go very well,” the president wrote on Truth Social on Friday afternoon. “Thank you […]

Trump vs AP: US Court rules Trump can exclude AP from key White House events for now; President celebrates victory in legal battle

US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump is free to restrict the Associated Press from attending some White House media events for now, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled. The decision overturns US District Judge Trevor McFadden’s April 8 ruling, which had mandated AP journalists’ access to the Oval […]

Stay or go? Transgender troops struggle with dismissal as deadline looms; forced separations are set to begin

Transgender troops, who were serving the US military for many years, are now facing a difficult question: whether to stay or leave as the 30-day deadline ended on Friday. Last month, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a 30-day deadline for the trans troops, and according to that, June 6 is the final day for active-duty […]

Win for Trump administration: US Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data; transparency obligations limited

The US Supreme Court in Washington (File photo) The US Supreme Court delivered two rulings in favour of the Trump administration on Friday regarding Department of Government Efficiency cases, including permitting access to Social Security databases with personal details of millions of US citizens. The court also limited transparency requirements for DOGE, formerly headed by […]

Trump vs Musk: DOGE staff fear fallout; public feud sparks anxiety over political targeting- report

Following the public spat between US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, staff members at the Musk-established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are reportedly experiencing increasing concerns about their professional future and potential targeting by the administrationCurrent DOGE personnel embedded within federal agencies are concerned that the public dispute between Trump and Musk might expose […]

‘No idea what he was thinking’: Errol Musk on son Elon’s Epstein-Trump association claims; urges to let feud ‘fizzle out’

Errol Musk weighs in on Elon-Trump feud Elon Musk‘s father, Errol Musk, weighed on his son’s feud with Donald Trump which included reference to Jeffrey Epstein in an attack on US President, calling it “just a silly mistake” and “not knowing what he (Elon) was thinking”. He also urged his son to let the feud […]

‘I know my lane’: Kash Patel says he would stay out of ‘Trump-Elon thing’ on Epstein Files

Kash Patel said he would stay out of Elon Musk-Donald Trump spat because he knows his lane. The Joe Rogan Experience episode of Joe Rogan interviewing FBI director Kash Patel dropped on Friday and proved that Kash Patel was giving the interview when Elon Musk called Donald Trump a pedophile, a sex offender whose name […]

‘What American justice looks like’: Man mistakenly deported to El Salvador back to US; faces federal charges, says attorney general

Kilmar Abrego Garcia (Photo: AP) Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, has returned to the United States to face federal criminal charges, attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday.Following extensive diplomatic negotiations between El Salvador’s government and the Trump administration, Bondi, in apress briefing said, “Abrego Garcia has landed in […]

‘Never imagined detention in US’: Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil pleads for release; says arrest caused ‘irreparable harm’ to family, career

Mahmoud Khalil (File photo) Columbia University alumnus, currently facing deportation due to his pro-Palestinian activism, has detailed the significant “irreparable harm” due to his ongoing detention to his personal and professional life, while a federal judge considers his release.In court documents made public on Thursday, Mahmoud Khalil described how the “most immediate and visceral harms” […]