GOP, Democrats tussle plays out in judiciary as US Supreme Court raises bar for obstruction charge against Trump
Chief Justice Roberts rejected the Justice Department’s more expansive reading of what constitutes obstruction, calling it “a novel interpretation (that) would criminalise a broad swath of prosaic conduct, exposing activists and lobbyists alike to decades in prison.”
Presindetial debate: American voters to asses Biden and Trump on age, verbal gaffes and threats to democracy
While national polls show a tied race, Biden has trailed Trump in polls of most battleground states and recently saw his financial edge erased after Trump was convicted in connection with hush money payments made to a porn star.
Freed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ends 14 years on the run, returns home after US guilty plea
Assange, 52, left the court through a throng of TV cameras and photographers without answering questions, then waved as he got into a white SUV. He left Saipan on a private jet to the Australian capital Canberra, where he is expected to land around 7:30 p.m. (0930 GMT), according to flight logs.
Amazon Files: Emails show Amazon caved in to pressure from White House to suppress books critical of vaccines
As pressures from the White House reverberated up Amazon’s corporate ladder, the head of the books team approved the adoption of a new policy to apply a “Do Not Promote” label to so-called anti-vaccination books.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in plea bargain with US government that sets him free from prison
The guilty plea, which must be approved by a judge, brings an abrupt conclusion to a criminal case of international intrigue and to the US government’s years-long pursuit of a publisher whose hugely popular secret-sharing website made him a cause célèbre among many press freedom advocates who said he acted as a journalist to expose US military wrongdoing. Investigators, by contrast, have repeatedly asserted that his actions broke laws meant to protect sensitive information and put the country’s national security at risk.
US struggles with shaky relations and troop cuts in African nations as military leaders meet
Niger’s ruling junta ordered US forces out of the country in the wake of last July’s ouster of the country’s democratically elected president by mutinous soldiers. French forces had also been asked to leave as the junta turned to the Russian mercenary group Wagner for security assistance.
Trump elates evangelicals in Philadelphia after backing Ten Commandments display in schools, public
Trump’s stated opposition to signing a nationwide ban on abortion and his reluctance to detail some of his views on the issue are at odds with many members of the evangelical movement, a key part of Trump’s base that’s expected to help him turn out voters in his November rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden.
Biden tours Pennsylvania as he seeks to peel away again GOP women in swing-state suburbs from Trump
Biden and his allies are trying to replicate Democrats’ success with suburban women this year and signalling they can win a small number of Republican women who may be opposed to a second Trump presidency. But in dozens of interviews this month in Pennsylvania’s Bucks County, there was little evidence that traditional Republicans were ready to abandon Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, in significant numbers.
Europe and Middle East airlines cash in on thriving human trafficking as Indians, Africans scramble for the US
Along the way to the US border, Ismaila Diop, 30, a small-business owner from Senegal, landed at Managua aboard Avianca flight TA315. Traveling in a group of about a dozen Senegalese migrants, Diop was passed off to organised groups of smugglers who went by their first names only or called themselves “Mama Africa.”
New York prosecutors urge judge to keep gag order blocking Trump from criticising jurors
Defence attorneys argue Trump should be free to fully address the case as he campaigns for the White House, pointing to comments made by President Joe Biden and the continued public criticism of him by his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen and the porn actor Stormy Daniels, both key prosecution witnesses.
