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Over the past two weeks, immigration lawyers, scrambling from courthouse to courthouse, have secured provisional orders in five different states stopping the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, to deport Venezuelans accused of being gang members to a terrorism prison in El Salvador.Judges have been harsh in appraising how the White House has used the powerful statute. “Cows have better treatment now under the law,” a federal judge in Manhattan said on Tuesday.But at least so far, the one thing the lawyers have not managed to do is protect another — and harder to…

After spending every day soaking up advice from two of St Kilda’s greatest ever midfielders, Hugo Garcia is ready to test his mettle against the Brisbane Lions’ champion on-ball brigade.A youthful St Kilda outfit will attempt to bounce back from a disappointing loss to the Western Bulldogs when they host the reigning premiers at Marvel Stadium on Saturday.Brisbane’s midfield, headlined by dual Brownlow medallist Lachie Neale, Josh Dunkley and Will Ashcroft, is coming off a loss to Collingwood and will pose a stern test.But it’s not one Garcia, still just 19, will shy away from.”It should be a good challenge…

The exemptions signal that, like Washington, Beijing is deeply concerned about the economic pain rippling across the country as the world’s two largest economies decouple. While Washington has said the current status quo is economically untenable and already offered tariff exemptions to some electronic goods, China has repeatedly said it is willing to fight to the end unless the US lifts its tariffs. But beneath the bombast, China’s economy is entering the trade war flirting with deflation. Demand is weak and consumer spending and sentiment have never properly recovered from the pandemic levels. The government is pushing tariff-hit exporters to…

In its heyday in the 1950s and ’60s, the Lung Wah Hotel, a converted, Spanish revival villa, offered a leafy refuge from the bustle of city life, near a cove and surrounded by parks in Hong Kong’s northern New Territories.Winding stairs, flanked by red lanterns, led to a sprawling Chinese-style garden. On summer weekends, people gathered for games of mahjong under a pavilion as children played nearby in sandboxes and swings. Movies were once shot there and Bruce Lee, its most famous patron, practiced martial arts on its roof.In the decades since, the hotel stopped renting out rooms because new…

Roger J. Stone Jr., the longtime associate of President Trump’s, has been lobbying for a pioneering cryptocurrency investor known as “Bitcoin Jesus” who is facing federal fraud and criminal tax charges, according to congressional filings.Mr. Stone filed paperwork last month indicating that he had been retained by Roger Ver, an early Bitcoin investor who was charged last year and accused of shielding his cryptocurrency holdings from $48 million in taxes.Mr. Stone noted in a filing last week that he had been paid $600,000 by Mr. Ver since early February to help his client’s case, partly by trying to abolish the…

A group of courageous Good Samaritans are being hailed as heroes after stepping in to save a woman and two small children from what could have been a devastating situation outside a Jacksonville, Florida, Department of Motor Vehicles office.The incident took place on March 12 in the parking lot of the DMV on North Main Street. According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO), witnesses saw a man attempting to drive away in an SUV while a woman desperately tried to remove her two young children, just 2 years old and 6 months old, from the back seat.Investigators say the man, later…

A small police plane has crashed into the sea near a popular beach town in Thailand, killing all six people on board.The plane was conducting a test flight to prepare for parachute training in Hua Hin district before it crashed about 8am on Friday, Royal Thai Police spokesperson Archayon Kraithong said.Officials did not immediately share the model of the propeller plane, but photos from the scene appear to show a Viking DHC-6 Twin Otter.The plane crashed near Hua Hin Airport, said the public relations department of Prachuab Kiri Khan province.The photos show the plane in the sea about 100m off…

SEOUL: South Korea and the United States agreed to craft a trade package aimed at removing new US tariffs before the pause on reciprocal tariffs is lifted in July, Seoul’s delegation in Washington said after a first round of trade talks. The US and South Korea had a “very successful” meeting on Thursday (Apr 24), US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said afterwards. “We may be moving faster than I thought, and we will be talking technical terms as early as next week,” he told reporters. Bessent and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer met with South Korean Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The rumors that Shedeur Sanders would fall out of the first round were very true.The Colorado quarterback went unselected in the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday night.Sanders, at one point, was considered to be the 1B to Cam Ward’s 1A. Ward separated himself, and went first overall to the Tennessee Titans. Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders celebrates after an overtime victory over Baylor in an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024, in Boulder, Colo.  (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)But, in recent days, it was becoming apparent that teams did not…

These are the key events on day 1,156 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is where things stand on Friday, April 25: Fighting Russian missiles and drones killed 12 people in Kyiv, in the biggest attack so far this year on the Ukrainian capital. The attack involved 145 drones and 70 missiles, including 11 ballistic missiles, according to Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is using its air strikes on Ukraine’s cities to cover advances by its ground forces, citing military leaders. President Zelenskyy said via social media that one of the ballistic missiles fired at Kyiv was made…