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Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil’s legal team on Monday released new footage of the minutes leading up to his March arrest that they say contradicts the government’s argument that he was a flight risk, which officials had said justified his detainment without an arrest warrant. The Columbia activist who helped organize pro-Palestinian rallies on campus a year ago has been held in a detention center in Louisiana for two months. The Syrian-born green card holder has been fighting his detention and deportation since his arrest, which was the first under the White House administration’s promised campaign against students who protested the war in…
For years, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino have said the Biden administration and corrupt “deep state” actors “weaponized” the FBI against Donald Trump.They accused the bureau of covering up what it knew about pipe bombs placed before the Jan. 6 attack. They suggested that FBI operatives helped ignite the Capitol riot. They said FBI agents committed crimes and tried to “overthrow” Trump. When Patel and Bongino did that, they weren’t just saying they disagreed with FBI investigative or prosecution decisions. They were accusing people of federal crimes. It would be illegal to investigate and prosecute someone because you didn’t like their political…
The Justice Department said it filed charges Monday against Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., alleging she assaulted law enforcement this month at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark.Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba made the announcement on X, where she accused the Democratic lawmaker of “assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement.”In a statement, McIver called the charges against her “purely political” and said she looks forward “to the truth being laid out clearly in court.”“Earlier this month, I joined my colleagues to inspect the treatment of ICE detainees at Delaney Hall in my…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is heading to Capitol Hill early Tuesday to seal the deal on his “big, beautiful bill,” using the power of political persuasion to unify divided House Republicans on the multitrillion-dollar package that is at risk of collapsing ahead of planned votes this week.Trump has implored GOP holdouts to “STOP TALKING, AND GET IT DONE.” But negotiations are slogging along and it’s not at all clear the package, with its sweeping tax breaks and cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and green energy programs, has the support needed from the House’s slim Republican majority, who are…
A Waymo autonomous vehicle drives along Masonic Avenue on April 11, 2022 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAlphabet’s Waymo unit has received approval to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service to more parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, including San Jose.In March, the company submitted a request to the California Public Utilities Commission to gain approval for its latest passenger safety plan, a key step in gaining permission to operate driverless vehicles across a broader area. On Monday, the proposed expansion was approved, allowing for Waymo’s driverless coverage to extend from San Francisco down…
A federal judge in Texas ordered the Trump administration on Monday to facilitate contact between a Venezuelan man deported to El Salvador and his lawyers, giving the federal government until Wednesday afternoon to do so. It’s the first such order in the mounting legal saga surrounding President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of men to a supermax prison in El Salvador notorious for human rights abuses. The Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, offers zero contact between inmates and the outside world, including their lawyers and families. The order by judge Keith P. Ellison of the Southern…
(The Center Square) – In a state where its residents pay the second highest gas taxes in the country, another increase is on the horizon in Illinois. Dubbed “Rebuild Illinois” in 2019, the capital plan doubled the 19 cent gas tax to 38 cents and linked annual increases to the Consumer Price Index. It increases again to 48.3 cents per gallon on July 1. Revenue generated from motor fuel taxes is primarily dedicated to funding transportation-related infrastructure, but Ravi Mishra, policy analyst with the Illinois Policy Institute, said Illinoisans are not getting their money’s worth.“The state just keeps on taking more taxes and…
(The Center Square) – Georgia Power will freeze its rates for three years, according to an agreement with the Public Service Commission announced Monday.As part of the agreement, Georgia Power will not file for recovery expenses related to Hurricane Helene until 2026. Those expenses were expected to be a significant part of the 2025 rate case.”Energy customers have seen unprecedented inflation in the energy sector across the U.S.,” said Jason Shaw, chairman of the Public Service Commission, in a news release. “My fellow Commissioners and I urged staff and Georgia Power to come to some agreement where base rates would not…
This illustration picture shows a person waiting for an update of Epic Games’ Fortnite on their smartphone in Los Angeles on August 14, 2020.Chris Delmas | AFP | Getty ImagesApple must work out its latest issues with Epic Games, or head back to court to prove it has a legal basis for delaying the restoration of the popular Fortnite game to its iOS App Store, a judge ordered on Monday.Fortnite recently re-submitted its game but was blocked by Apple, Epic Games said Friday. The company later filed a motion to enforce the earlier injunction from the court.U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez…
(The Center Square) – Republicans’ multi-trillion-dollar budget reconciliation bill, set to hit the House floor Thursday, repeals multiple tax credits implemented by the Inflation Reduction Act that subsidize infrastructure meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Yet even as Democrats have denounced the plan as “extreme,” some Republican lawmakers argue the legislation doesn’t go far enough. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act included 21 new climate-related tax expenditures, including subsidies and deductions for electric vehicle owners, homeowners who make their houses energy efficient, and facilities that generate electricity from wind turbines and solar panels.The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s portion of the policy megabill,…