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May 7, 2025 - World

Lawyers say the Turkish national, who has been held in a Louisiana Ice center for six weeks, was illegally detainedA federal appeals court on Wednesday granted a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated.A judicial panel of the New York-based US second circuit court of appeals ruled in the case of Rümeysa Öztürk after lawyers representing her and the US justice department presented arguments at a hearing on Tuesday.The Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...

May 7, 2025 - World

Chinese leader is scheduled to attend Victory Day parade and hold talks with Vladimir PutinXi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for the start of a four-day visit during which he will attend Russia’s military parade commemorating the anniversary of the end of the second world war, known in Russia as Victory Day.The Chinese leader’s trip has coincided with mass Ukrainian drone attacks on the Russian capital. Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said Russia’s air defence units destroyed at least 19 Ukrainian drones overnight. Continue reading...

May 7, 2025 - World

Judge confirms move would breach order as Libya’s rival governments say both would refuse any US deporteesThe Trump administration is reportedly planning to deport a group of immigrants to Libya, despite a judge’s efforts on Wednesday to block any such flights and the state department’s previous condemnation of the “life-threatening” prison conditions in the country.Reuters cited three unnamed US officials as saying the deportations could happen this week. Two of the officials said the immigrants, whose nationalities are not known, could be flown to the north African country as soon as Wednesday, but they added the plans could still change. The New York Times also cited a US official confirming the deportation plans. Continue reading...

May 7, 2025 - World

President Donald Trump's repeated claims that girls will have to get along with fewer dolls as his tariffs work their economic magic reveals an underlying MAGA misogyny that reinforces the beliefs of the manosphere, according to Salon's Amanda Marcotte.A week ago, Trump seemed to speak off the cuff when he said, "maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls." But Marcotte wrote that the "doll" talk became an actual talking point, as evidenced by the fact he told NBC's Kristen Welker, "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls," then told reporters , "All I’m saying is that a young lady, a 10-year-old-girl, 9-year-old girl, 15-year-old-girl, doesn’t need 37 dolls."Marcotte argued that "Trump defended his trade-destroying tariffs by lecturing parents about not spoiling their daughters" who are inherently "frivolous" due to their gender, a point that speaks directly to the MAGA base that helped Trump get elected.Marcotte noted with interest that the the only children Trump talked about were girls, never boys or toys "more stereotypically associated with boys, like Legos or toy trucks."ALSO READ: ‘Pain. Grief. Anger’: Families heartbroken as Trump backlash smashes adoption dreams"This is likely not an accident, but part of a larger effort to sell the otherwise indefensible tariffs to the MAGA base by invoking the same misogynist resentment that helped Trump get elected," Marcotte wrote. "The image of 'too many' dolls taps right into this ugly worldview that overly indulged girls are growing into 'selfish' women who think they're too good to settle for Mr. Tweeting Incel."In fact, Marcotte wrote that "Trump superfans on X started arguing that the tariffs were the key to restoring male dominance. They falsely claim that tariffs will drive women out of the workforce and force them to get married to survive."Marcotte wrote that Fox News picked up on the sexist talk "and tried to argue that tariffs will restore the patriarchal gender order by bringing back manly manufacturing jobs, while destroying 'email jobs' that are primarily held by women in MAGA fantasy version of reality."Marcotte noted that whether or not Americans pick up on Trump's misogyny in delivering his tariff message, they do hear him "admitting prices are going up — and most people are smart enough to know it won't be limited to dolls."Read the Salon article here.

May 7, 2025 - World

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is getting behind-the-scenes praise for taking a stand against President Donald Trump's MAGA nominee for top D.C. prosecutor, according to an MSNBC analyst. Tillis said Tuesday that he "indicated to the White House" that he will not support Ed Martin's bid to become U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. Tillis's announcement sent MAGA world into meltdown, with members making phone calls and pronouncing their support for Martin on social media. Some even called for Tillis's ouster from the Senate committee considering Martin. Dave Aronberg, former U.S attorney for Palm Beach County, told MSNBC's Morning Joe on Wednesday that Ed Martin had "no business being the U.S. attorney for Washington D.C." ALSO READ: ‘Pain. Grief. Anger’: Families heartbroken as Trump backlash smashes adoption dreams "This guy has never been a prosecutor ever before. He was appointed because of politics, because he represented a bunch of insurrectionists," Aronberg said. "And in addition to that, he also misled the Senate. He appeared on Russian TV more than 150 times, and refused to disclose that until called on it. So, the Senate wasn't pleased with that." Aronberg continued, "And then, on top of that, he is friends with this Nazi sympathizer...He actually gave this guy an award. He called him extraordinary. This is a guy who dresses up as Adolf Hitler, who has a copy of Mein Kampf, who has made horrible comments about Jewish people." Aronberg said that Tillis's defiance of Trump's pick has surely garnered him praise from Senate Republicans who were reluctant to speak out. "You can rest assured that the other Republican senators are giving Tillis a pat on the back because they did not want to go on the board and have to vote for this guy," Aronberg said. "So, behind closed doors, I'm sure they're very pleased with their colleague from North Carolina." Watch the clip below via CNN or click here.