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I was detained by ICE — even though I’m 100% Native American
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (752+ words) Parked at a petrol station, Peter Yazzie slipped into his orange high-vis vest before heading to work on a construction site when several cars pulled abruptly into the lot. Seeing other vehicles or people was rare at 4.30am in Phoenix. But…...
South Korea’s jailed ex-president appeals against life sentence
8+ hour, 57+ min ago (403+ words) South Korea's jailed former president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has claimed that his life sentence for insurrection had a "political background" as he launched an appeal against it. "We think we have a responsibility to clearly point out the problems with this…...
Gisèle Pelicot: how I faced my 51 abusers in court
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (683+ words) I put on the only sunglasses I had with me, a cheap pair with round frames that I had picked up from a display stand one particularly sunny day. We walked together to the Palais de Justice. The closer I…...
Conwoman stole £300,000 from elderly aunt to build luxury gym
1+ week, 1+ day ago (763+ words) A woman conned her 89-year-old aunt out of more than "300,000 to help turn a disused Glasgow church into a state-of-the-art gym. Margaret Cassidy took just over a year to steal the money from Elizabeth Murphy, who has since died, to…...
Peter Mandelson asked to testify before Congress over Epstein links
1+ week, 3+ day ago (21+ words) Peter Mandelson asked to testify before Congress over Epstein links'The Times Peter Mandelson asked to testify before Congress over Epstein links...
Hong Kong jails father of US-based exile activist in ‘retaliation’
1+ week, 5+ day ago (490+ words) The father of a Hong Kong activist who is living in exile in the United States has been convicted of a national security crime, accused of "handling a fugitive's assets" after trying to cash in an insurance policy in her…...
Middle-class drug users mean gang crime is here to stay
2+ week, 3+ day ago (426+ words) On the tenth anniversary of the horrific gun attack at the Regency hotel in north Dublin, it is now all but forgotten that the brazen and murderous assault took place just two days into a general election campaign. The shooting…...
Spanish plan to give 500,000 migrants residency prompts backlash
3+ week, 1+ day ago (600+ words) A political row has erupted in Spain over the government's decision to grant residency to about 500,000 undocumented migrants. The move sharply diverges from tougher immigration policies taking hold elsewhere in Europe and the United States. Scheduled to be approved by…...
Man arrested after car ‘repeatedly’ hits New York synagogue
3+ week, 4+ day ago (340+ words) A car repeatedly drove into the entrance of an ultra-Orthodox synagogue in New York City on Wednesday. The driver appeared to strike a door of a building in the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters complex in Brooklyn before reversing and striking…...
Alex Pretti shown kicking federal agents’ car days before he was killed
3+ week, 5+ day ago (699+ words) A video has emerged of Alex Pretti in a confrontation with federal agents in Minneapolis 11 days before he was shot dead by immigration officers. The 37-year-old appears in the newly unearthed video to be spitting and cursing at agents and…...