In the chaotic bureaucracy of the American immigration system, few things remain constant—except Donald Trump’s knack for turning humanitarian policy into culture war spectacle. Refugees, once a bipartisan issue, are now cast as characters in the President’s favourite morality play: a grand narrative where white grievance wears the hero’s cape, and the rest of the […]
The mechanical signature device known as the autopen, which received its first patent many years ago, has recently become a subject of political controversy due to US President Donald Trump‘s assertions about Joe Biden‘s alleged usage for signing pardons.Trump ordered an investigation Wednesday into whether former President Biden’s administration used an autopen machine to sign […]
A Guatemalan citizen was returned to the United States on Wednesday following a judicial order requiring the Trump administration to facilitate his reentry after being wrongfully deported to Mexico, despite his expressed fears of persecution there. This case represents the first successful return of a migrant following several similar judicial directives to the Trump administration.On […]
Joe Biden and Donald Trump US President Donald Trump issued a directive on Wednesday calling for an investigation into Joe Biden’s presidential actions, questioning the authenticity of his decision-making and use of an autopen for official documents, and also the “conspiracy” behind his declining cognitive health. Trump suggested that Biden’s staff concealed his “cognitive decline”.Biden […]
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) WASHINGTON: Twenty-two young Americans sued the Trump administration on Thursday, arguing its executive orders to expand fossil fuel development and dismantle climate protections violate their fundamental rights to life and liberty.The plaintiffs, primarily from Montana, where the case was filed in a federal court, along with […]
A military aircraft waits for migrants to board from a bus at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. (Picture credit: AP) A federal judge has directed the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man who was deported to Mexico despite raising fears of persecution there, a move the court said likely violated […]
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth (Image credit: AP) Bedevilled by leaks to the media during his short tenure, Defence Secretary Pete Hegsethissued a series of restrictions on the press late Friday that include banning reporters from entering wide swaths of the Pentagon without a government escort – areas where the press has had access in past […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Maine legislators to temporarily restore the voting power of a state lawmaker after she had been censured for a social media post that criticized transgender athletes’ participation in girls’ sports. The order was unsigned and did not provide the court’s reasoning, as is typical in such emergency applications. No […]
An Indian academic, Badar Khan Suri, detained during the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign students, has been ordered released by a federal judge in Virginia.The judge said his case raised serious constitutional concerns.Badar Khan Suri, a visiting scholar at Georgetown University, had been held in an immigration detention centre in Texas and is facing deportation. […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) NAIROBI: Burundi’s parliament appointed a new human rights commission late Monday after its previous head fled into exile and said its mission was to “fight” the United Nations‘s rights envoy. International rights groups have long accused Burundi’s government of suppressing civil society, political opposition and the media. The country’s own National Independent […]
