The Justice Department has charged a man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at an event in Minneapolis, according to court papers made public Thursday. The man arrested for Tuesday’s attack, Anthony Kazmierczak, faces a charge of forcibly assaulting, opposing, impeding and intimidating Omar, according to a complaint filed in...
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Chinese National Who Exposed Human Rights Abuses Against Uyghurs Is Granted Asylum To Remain In U.S.
An immigration judge on Wednesday granted asylum to a Chinese national who he said had a “well founded fear” of persecution if sent back to China after exposing human rights abuses there. Guan Heng, 38, applied for asylum after arriving in the U.S. illegally in 2021. He has been in custody since being swept up...
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Husband In Au Pair Affair Testifies On Killings Of Wife, Another Man. ‘I Did Not Want To Shoot Him.’
In the cold formality of a northern Virginia courtroom, Brendan Banfield testified on Thursday that prosecutors got it wrong: He did not fatally stab his wife in 2023, but instead shot the man who did. The former IRS law enforcement officer-turned-defendant in an aggravated murder trial continued his testimony about what happened the day his...
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EU Lists Iran’s Paramilitary Revolutionary Guard As Terrorist Organization Over Protest Crackdown
The European Union agreed Thursday to list Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization over Tehran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests, the bloc’s top diplomat said, in a largely symbolic move that adds to pressure on the Islamic Republic. The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said foreign ministers in the 27-nation bloc unanimously...
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Bus Driver Sacked After Chasing And Punching Thief
A London bus driver who chased a thief and punched him unconscious has been sacked, following a tribunal. Mark Hehir, who told the hearing he was seen as a “hero” by the public, was driving the 206 bus for Metroline, which runs between Wembley and Maida Vale in north-west London, when a man stole a...
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Afghanistan Launches $100 Million Food Security Program As Hunger Crisis Deepens
Afghanistan will roll out a $100 million food security project, the United Nations said on Thursday, as it contends with a worsening hunger crisis driven by mass deportations of Afghans from neighbouring states, foreign aid cuts and economic crisis. Afghanistan’s humanitarian situation is deteriorating sharply, with millions pushed into hunger by the loss of remittances,...
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