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Millions of protesters descended upon the streets in the United States, gathering in over 2,000 cities, in a coordinated effort to demonstrate against the Trump administration. The "No Kings" protest, a movement aimed at rejecting strongman politics and corruption, intentionally avoided planning events in Washington, D.C.
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Rallies and demonstrations against President Donald Trump and his policies drew thousands of protesters in cities across the United States, including Atlanta, Philadelphia, Charlotte, and Los Angeles, as officials urged calm and mobilized National Guard troops. The protesters, who gathered in over 2,000 locations, chanted slogans and carried signs
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A federal judge has granted a request to temporarily block the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old Palestinian Columbia University graduate who has been held in a detention facility in Louisiana since March. The ruling is a significant setback for the Trump administration, which had sought to strip Khalil of
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Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student, remains in detention at the Louisiana ICE center despite a judge ruling that the government could no longer hold him on the premise that his presence in the country threatened national interest. Khalil's detention has sparked protests across
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Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University protester detained by the Trump administration, are demanding his immediate release after the government failed to meet a deadline set by a federal judge. Khalil, a US resident and international affairs graduate student, was detained on March 8 for participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
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Federal authorities have refused to release Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, citing a separate federal statute that allows authorities to keep immigrants in custody during removal proceedings. This decision comes despite a US District Court judge ordering his release, ruling that the initial detention was likely unconstitutional. Khalil, a permanent resident,
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Twelve activists with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition were abducted by Israeli forces on June 9 while sailing to Gaza in international waters. The group, which included well-known Swedish climate and human rights activist Greta Thunberg, was taken to Israel and subjected to various forms of mistreatment, including solitary confinement and
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Tom Homan, the public face of President Trump's operation to deport as many as a million people a year, has vowed to increase Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in liberal sanctuary cities. Speaking in an interview with The Telegraph, Homan said that protesters will not be able
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Laila Soueif, the mother of jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, remains in a London hospital in declining health on a hunger strike to secure his release. Abd el-Fattah's continued detention is part of a campaign of vengeance motivated by Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi's personal
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Tensions in Northern Ireland are escalating, with a fourth day of violent unrest seeing masked vandals set fires, attack police, and target residential areas. The anti-immigrant mob has focused on Portadown, Co Armagh, with police being forced to use pepper spray to control the crowds. The unrest began after a
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A federal judge in New Jersey has ruled that the government must release Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student and former Columbia University graduate student, who was detained under the Trump administration's crackdown on students participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. However, Khalil will remain in custody until at least Friday,
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Israeli authorities have deported six activists who were detained on an aid boat attempting to breach the country's blockade of Gaza. The six, including French member of parliament Rima Hassan, were among 12 passengers who sought to deliver aid to the Palestinian territory. Israeli officials have dismissed the
