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The Trump administration is repurposing a mobile application - originally created to facilitate asylum appointments - into a way for undocumented migrants already in the US to "self-deport". The app, known as CBP Home, allows migrants to submit an "intent to depart", which US Customs and Border Patrol says offers them a chance to leave without "harsher consequences."
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OTTAWA, March 9 (Reuters) - Former central banker Mark Carney won the race to become leader of Canada's ruling Liberal Party and will succeed Justin Trudeau as prime minister, official results showed on Sunday. Carney will take over at a tumultuous time in Canada, which is in the midst of a trade war with longtime ally the United States under President Donald Trump and must hold a general election soon.
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Veterans fired from federal jobs say they feel betrayed, including some who voted for Trump. Nathan Hooven is a disabled Air Force veteran who voted for Donald Trump in November. Barely three months later, he’s now unemployed and says he feels betrayed by the president’s dramatic downsizing of the federal government that cost him his job.
Al Jazeera explores the stories behind Africa’s map, from winding borders to straight lines and landlocked nations.
By Marium Ali | 23 Feb 2025 | Al Jazeera
Donald Trump imposed new tariffs on goods entering the US from Canada, Mexico, and China. The US president signed an executive order putting a 25% tariff or tax on imports of all goods coming from Canada and Mexico to get both countries to crack down on illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Additionally, goods from China will be subject to a 10% tariff on top of existing tariffs until the country addresses fentanyl smuggling.
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Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) play a vital role in immigration enforcement. They oversee all aspects of the process, which includes identifying individuals, as well as their arrest, detention, and removal under immigration law. ERO typically learns about these individuals through Interpol notices, suspected terrorists, cases involving counter-proliferation crimes, the terrorist watch list, or the no-fly list. Currently, 1,563 Sierra Leoneans are scheduled for imminent removal.
The report lays out why charges were pursued or dropped—no politics, no games, just federal guidelines. It tackles two critical investigations involving Donald Trump: election Interference and Classified Documents. Smith dismantles Trump's 'witch hunt' cries and delves into how Trump tried to hijack democracy itself, bending federal laws to cling to power after losing in 2020. Some parts stay sealed.
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He has his motives, and they are not ours. Musk is now officially in a public meltdown. Steve Bannon slammed Elon Musk as a “toddler” as the X owner doubled down on his views on H-1B work visas and his criticisms of American workers. “Someone please notify ‘Child Protective Services’— need to do a ‘wellness check’ on this toddler,” Bannon wrote on Gettr on Friday night in response to Musk telling his critics to “fuck yourself in the face.”
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America and the world are livid. These election results beg the question: When will folks realize what they are up against and unite? Trump got more Hispanic votes than any other candidate since JFK. He called them rapists, animals, and crooks, yet 45% rode him to victory. Blacks are saying Kamala is not Black enough. Maybe they would prefer a Black candidate from the Ghetto who speaks Ebonics.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said Lebanese American businessman Massad Boulos would serve as a senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social. Boulos, the father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany, met repeatedly with Arab American and Muslim leaders during the election campaign.
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On the eve of the presidential election, America finds itself at a crossroads. It seems that the country has a clear binary choice. However, the media pundits tell us that the election is too close to call. They say the country is bitterly divided, and a huge percentage of people are conflicted.
By Aaron Humes | ‘Policy’ vs. ‘Personality’ 
Who would have thought that Karl Rove would ever speak the truth — and yet he did. Republican strategist Karl Rove has BLASTED Donald Trump's disastrous debate performance, saying: “There’s no putting lipstick on this pig. Trump was crushed by a woman he previously dismissed as ‘dumb as a rock.''’ Which raises the question: What does that make him?”
By Theo Edwards for YAME
Trump falls into Harris’s traps as he lies about abortion and ‘eating pets.’ Donald Trump appeared to fall apart in his first head-to-head debate with Kamala Harris in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, providing rambling answers on illegal immigration, abortion, and the economy and taking the bait whenever his opponent goaded him.
Harris at the debate: "I am not Joe Biden, and I am certainly not Donald Trump"
Andrew Romano · Reporter | yahoo!news | Wed, September 11, 2024 at 12:40 AM EDT
Anybody who does not understand the majority of white Americans' unflinching support for Donald Trump should listen and watch the video.
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Kamala Harris delivers a show-stopping rally in front of a roaring crowd in Pennsylvania with her new running mate Tim Walz — and shares a moving anecdote.
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The national factions agreed during their meetings in China to achieve comprehensive Palestinian national unity, including all Palestinian forces and factions within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) framework. They committed to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, following United Nations resolutions, and ensuring the right of return following Resolution 194.
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Biden made the announcement from his home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., where he's self-isolated since testing positive for COVID-19 Thursday night. Several Democrats, including those who formerly served in the Obama-Biden administration, urged him to consider dropping out.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Biden drops out: President leaves 2024 race amid party pressure
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Israel should stop settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem and end its "illegal" occupation of those areas and the Gaza Strip as soon as possible.
By Raffi Berg, BBC News, London
Change begins now, Starmer says - as Labour wins a historic landslide. Sir Keir Starmer enters Downing Street as Labour's first prime minister in 14 years after a landslide victory at the general election.
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Anger, chaos, and confusion take hold. The insight: The long-term impacts are likely to be significant and far-reaching. It all started for Corporate America long before Trump's Executive Order (EO).
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Kemi Badenoch, the 44-year-old former software engineer, and Trade Minister ascended to the leadership of the UK Conservative Party—the first Black woman to lead a major British political party—comes at the end of a protracted contest triggered by the worst electoral defeat in the party’s history in July of 2024.
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“You can tell that (the designers) didn’t have an appearance in mind,” postal worker Avis Stonum said. The Postal Service’s new delivery vehicles aren’t going to win a beauty contest.
NEW YORK POST | Associated Press | September 12, 2024; at 1:44 AM
The recent anti-immigration protests in the UK have led to riots, with far-right groups targeting hotels housing asylum-seekers and mosques. This violence has been fueled by underlying Islamophobic and anti-immigrant sentiments. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has condemned the violence as ‘far-right thuggery’ and has vowed that the rioters will face the full force of the law.
By Theo Edwards
As a convicted felon, Trump’s ability to visit some nation-states, including Canada and the UK, would be restricted due to their strict policies on individuals with criminal records. It is uncertain whether he would be allowed to visit these countries unless he is granted special permission if he were to win the presidential election in November while still being a felon.
By Theo Edwards
Known as ‘La Doctora,’ Claudia Sheinbaum, a physicist with a doctorate in energy engineering and a former Mayor of Mexico City, became the first female president in the history of Mexico after Sunday’s presidential election. Sheinbaum was declared the winner and obtained around 60.7 percent of the vote.
In a historic decision, a 12-person Manhattan jury found the former president guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to disguise a hush money payment made to adult film actress (porn star) Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
Donald Trump is now the first former US president to have a mugshot. Inmate No. P01135809: Donald Trump Mug Shot Released in GA.
Here are the mug shots of defendants booked on charges connected with efforts to overturn Georgia's 2020 presidential election results.
NBC NEWS: August 25, 2023 at 7:18 AM
Bill Barr, Attorney General during the Trump administration in a CBS interview with Robert Costa on Sunday, June 18, 2023, unload on his former boss.
‘He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country’s interests. There’s no question about it. This is a perfect example of that. He’s like a 9-year-old — a defiant 9-year-old kid who’s always pushing the glass toward the edge of the table, defying his parents to stop him from doing it. It’s a means of self-assertion and exerting his dominance over other people. And he’s a very petty individual who will always put his interests ahead of the country’s, and the personal gratification of his ego. But our country can’t be a therapy session for a troubled man like this.’
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The indictment against Donald J. Trump and his personal valet, Walt Nauta, unsealed this afternoon, lays out the federal case against the former president in vivid, shocking detail.
No other president has ever faced federal charges, let alone the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence if convicted.
Friday, June 9, 2023, at 5:02 PM EDT - yahoo /news
The nation’s first South Sudanese-Australian MP has been sworn into Western Australia’s parliament.
“When I came to Perth I couldn’t speak much English. A girl that arrived with her sister and a carry-on bag, a plastic bag. We came here with nothing, not even one dollar,” she told SBS News.
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I never thought I would be comparing Washington DC to the Green Zone in Baghdad; however, the MAGA crowd brought us to the brink of a very un-American insurrection. Trump stormtroopers aimed was to overturn the will of the American people and, in true Jim Crow fashion, tried to disenfranchise African Americans and other minorities.
This our history. 401-year odyssey encompasses tragedy, triumph, and the indomitable spirit of a battle-scarred people.
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Central to this idea of seismic change is the issue of Police reform, which has to happen.
Being black in America should not be a death sentence.
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Ghana’s Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has been elected to the membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AMACAD).
With his election, Prof. Yankah, joins the company of notable members, from the founders, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Bowdoin to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Maria Mitchell, and Alexander Graham Bell.
In 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a unanimous resolution condemning FGM/C as a human rights violation. The resolution condemning FGM/C was co-sponsored by 28 members of Congress and calls for “coordinated efforts to eliminate the harmful practice.”
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What are the causes and consequences of Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting, or FGM/C.?
Growing up in West Africa, it did not seem to be of importance to me when young girls mostly in their teens with distinguished colorings on their faces and other parts of their bodies were paraded bare-breasted if there were any to be bared, in the streets of my village.
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We hope our elected officials get it together and lead by example. We see incredible acts of kindness, courage, and resourcefulness on a far local and global scale. The crisis will batter and bruised us, but it will not break us. Girded by our common humanity, we emerge stronger and prepared for the next storm.
They ignored intelligence reports in January and derided the coming storm as a hoax. In their haste to dismantle all things Obama the White House, office that dealt with global pandemics, axed.
By Angela Brooks
As we pursue racial and economic equality, the ‘ADOS’ needs to realize ‘United We Stand, Divided We Fall.’
Black people as a whole are a complex myriad of cultures and a beautiful array of colors. Many, of course, the descendants of former slaves. For many, the bitter legacy and the enduring struggle for civil rights and equality have been over time an unceasing quest.
American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) a term to specifically distinguish African Americans of slave descent. The term coined by Yvette Carnell and Lawyer Antonio Moore describes people whose ancestors were slaves in the USA before the Civil War.
By Theo Edwards and Ola George
The new immigration rule will take effect on April 11, 2025. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an Interim Final Rule (IFR) requiring non-citizens who remain in the U.S. for 30 days or more and were not previously registered to register and be fingerprinted.