Paris politics has once again descended into chaos, as the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou collapsed on Monday after the National Assembly overwhelmingly voted against a confidence measure brought forward by the embattled PM in a last-ditch effort to pass through a national budget. The deadlock over the budget came in large part as a result of President Macron’s Machiavellian move during last summer’s legislative elections to form a pact between his centrist coalition...

Federal immigration agents in Los Angeles can resume using tactics for now that critics say amount to racial profiling, after the US Supreme Court backed the Trump administration’s aggressive enforcement efforts. Over three dissents from the court’s liberal-leaning justices, the conservative majority on Monday put on hold a federal district court order that barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from questioning and detaining people based solely on their ethnicity,...

South Korea’s foreign minister departed for the U.S. on Monday following the mass immigration raid by U.S. government officials on the Hyundai-LG battery factory in Georgia last week when some 300 South Koreans were detained.  While speaking with reporters ahead of his trip to the U.S., South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun called it "a grave situation" and said he was in communication with Washington after U.S. immigration authorities on Friday arrested 475 individuals from...

The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue carrying out immigration raids in California after advocacy groups argued that federal authorities were stopping suspected illegal immigrants without a valid reason. The high court's 6-3 decision, issued along ideological lines, is temporary while the case proceeds in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. It came after a federal judge in July blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement from...

The US Supreme Court has ruled sweeping immigration raids in Los Angeles can continue for now, lifting a federal judge's order that had barred agents from making stops without "reasonable suspicion". The Monday ruling is a win for President Donald Trump, who has vowed to conduct record-level deportations of migrants in the country illegally. The 6-3 decision of the conservative-majority court allows agents to stops suspects based solely on their race, language or job, while a legal...

At her home in western Germany, a woman told a team of visiting researchers from Meta that she did not allow her sons to interact with strangers on the social media giant’s virtual reality headsets. Then her teenage son interjected, according to two of the researchers: He frequently encountered strangers, and adults had sexually propositioned his little brother, who was younger than 10, numerous times...

The Epstein estate on Monday turned over a tranche of documents subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee, including at least one purporting to show a close relationship between the late sex offender and President Trump before he entered politics. The records include the 2003 “birthday book,” including a lewd entry allegedly written by Trump when he was a private citizen — a note Trump has denied writing. According to Epstein’s attorneys, however, the files include no so-called...

The Department of Homeland Security announced it would be launching a new initiative targeting criminal illegal immigrants in Illinois. In a post on social platform X, DHS said the operation was in honor of Katie Abraham, a 20-year-old woman from one of Chicago’s northwest suburbs who was killed in a hit-and-run crash in January by 29-year-old Julio Cucul-Bol, a citizen of Guatemala in the U.S. illegally, according to NewsNation affiliate WGN. Her friend, Chloe Polzin, was also killed in...

In 1980, Elaine Batchelor graduated from college. To celebrate, she decided to backpack across Europe. She was 22 years old and had never before traveled by herself. A few months into her trip, she got on a night train to Greece from what was then known as Yugoslavia. When Batchelor boarded, she realized that she was likely the only woman on the train and that no one spoke English.  "I thought, 'Well, this doesn't look like a good idea.' But at the time, when things weren't good ideas, I...

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