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Jose Garcia's JournalColumbia University expels some students who seized building last year, suspends others
Source: CBS News
Columbia University says it has expelled or suspended some students who took over a campus building during pro-Palestinian protests last spring, and had temporarily revoked the diplomas of some students who have since graduated.
In a campus-wide email sent Thursday, the university said its judicial board had issued its sanctions against dozens of students who occupied Hamilton Hall based on its "evaluation of the severity of behaviors."
The university did not provide a breakdown of how many students were expelled, suspended or had their degree revoked.
Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/news/columbia-university-protest-expulsions-suspension/
If Canada were to become the 51st state,
there would be no customs check-point between it and Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
How would we keep all of tge fentanyl out?
Hunter Biden says he can't afford to continue laptop-related lawsuit
Source: BBC
Hunter Biden has told a federal judge he is facing severe financial difficulties and cannot afford to move forward on his lawsuit against a former aide to President Donald Trump.
Mr Biden sued Garrett Ziegler in 2023, accusing him and his company Marco Polo of violating state and federal laws by publishing an online database containing 128,000 emails taken from a laptop attributed to Mr Biden. Mr Ziegler has previously dismissed the lawsuit as "completely frivolous."
In a court filing on Wednesday, Mr Biden's attorneys urged U.S. District Judge Hernan D. Vera to end the lawsuit, stating that he "has suffered a significant downturn in his income and has significant debt in the millions of dollars range."
The son of former President Joe Biden has also faced a series of financial setbacks, with January's wildfire in the Pacific Palisades - where he was staying - making his rental home "unliveable" for an extended period.
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Judge blocks immigration raids at religious groups suing Trump administration
Source: The Hill
A federal judge Monday blocked the Trump administration from conducting immigration raids at Quaker, Baptist and Sikh places of worship that are suing over its new enforcement policy.
Policy guidance long instructed federal immigration authorities to avoid enforcement operations in certain “protected areas,” such as schools and places of worship, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded that guidance after President Trump retook the White House.
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang, an appointee of former President Obama overseeing the religious groups’ lawsuit challenging the rescission, said his ruling doesn’t conclusively resolve whether the move complies with the First Amendment and the groups’ religious protections provided under federal law.
“The Court finds only that at this early stage of the case, on the sensitive and fraught issue of when and under what circumstances law enforcement may intrude into places of worship to conduct warrantless operations, the 2025 Policy’s lack of any meaningful limitations or safeguards on such activity likely does not satisfy these constitutional and statutory requirements as to Plaintiffs, and that a return to the status quo is therefore warranted until the exact contours of what is necessary to avoid unlawful infringement on religious exercise are determined later in this case,” Chuang wrote in his ruling.
Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5161245-trump-immigration-crackdown-ice-raids-churches-temples-schools-dhs-southern-border/
Supreme Court rejects challenges to abortion clinic 'buffer zone' laws that restrict protesters
Source: NBC News
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider overturning a 25-year-old precedent that upheld "buffer zone" laws limiting how close protesters can get to abortion clinic entrances.
In a setback for abortion opponents, the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority hostile to abortion rights, opted against weighing whether such laws violate the free speech rights of protesters under the Constitution's First Amendment.
At issue in the two related cases were buffer zone laws in Carbondale, Illinois, and Englewood, New Jersey.
In the 2000 ruling in a case called Hill v. Colorado, the court upheld a buffer zone law in that state. A wave of such measures were enacted following violence connected to anti-abortion protesters, including a 1994 case in which two clinic workers were killed in Massachusetts.
Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna180658
Conservative opposition wins German election and the far right is 2nd with strongest postwar result
Source: Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while Alternative for Germany doubled its support in the strongest showing for a far-right party since World War II, projections showed.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for his center-left Social Democrats after what he called “a bitter election result.” Projections for ARD and ZDF public television showed his party finishing in third place with its worst postwar result in a national parliamentary election.
Merz said he hopes to put a coalition government together by Easter. But that’s likely to be challenging
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/germany-election-merz-scholz-far-right-afd-ebf16ed38e0beaff7fed9a6d29b32a24
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio arrested at US Capitol
Source: ABC News
Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the Proud Boys and who was recently pardoned by President Donald Trump, was arrested at the U.S. Capitol on Friday, according to authorities.
Tarrio, according to the U.S. Capitol Police, allegedly struck a woman's phone and arm when she allegedly put a phone near his face after a press conference wrapped up on Capitol grounds.
Tarrio was sentenced in September 2023 for his conviction on seditious conspiracy and given the longest sentence of all of the convicted Jan. 6 rioters, though he was not at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
During his sentencing, prosecutors pointed to a nine-page strategic plan to "storm" government buildings in Washington on Jan. 6 that was found in Tarrio's possession after the riot, as well as violent rhetoric they say he routinely used in messages with other members of the group about what they would do if Congress moved forward in certifying President Joe Biden's election win.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio-arrested-us/story?id=119057808
Trump administration can continue mass firings of federal workers, US judge rules
Source: Reuters
Feb 20 (Reuters) - The Trump administration can for now continue its mass firings of federal employees, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, rejecting a bid by a group of labor unions to halt President Donald Trump’s dramatic downsizing of the roughly 2.3 million-strong federal workforce.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C. federal court is temporary while the litigation plays out. But it is a win for the Trump administration as it seeks to purge the federal workforce and slash what it deems wasteful and fraudulent government spending.
The National Treasury Employees Union and four other unions sued last week to block the administration from firing hundreds of thousands of federal workers and granting buyouts to employees who quit voluntarily.
The unions are seeking to block eight agencies including the Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Department of Veterans Affairs from implementing mass layoffs.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-can-continue-mass-firings-federal-workers-us-judge-rules-2025-02-20/
Argentina's President Milei denies crypto fraud allegations
Source: BBC
Argentine President Javier Milei has denied promoting a newly launched cryptocurrency which collapsed shortly after he mentioned it in a social media post on Friday.
The cryptocoin $Libra quickly rose in value before nosediving, causing severe losses for the majority of people who had invested in it.
A judge will now determine if the president should face fraud charges over the incident.
On Monday, Milei said he had acted "in good faith" and dismissed investors' complaints, comparing their actions to people who gamble: "If you go to a casino and lose money, what's there to complain about when you knew the risks?"
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Four top deputies for Eric Adams have resigned, New York mayor says
Source: CNN
Four top deputies for Eric Adams have resigned, the New York City mayor said in a statement Monday.
The four officials are Maria Torres-Springer, who served as first deputy mayor; Anne Williams-Isom, deputy mayor for health and human services; Meera Joshi, deputy mayor for operations; and Chauncey Parker, deputy mayor for public safety.
“I am disappointed to see them go, but given the current challenges, I understand their decision and wish them nothing but success in the future,” the mayor said in the statement.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/politics/eric-adams-deputies-resign?Date=20250217&Profile=CNNPolitics&utm_content=1739824783&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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