WASHINGTON: The US Congress is moving to tighten oversight of Pentagon leadership decisions and limit unilateral military action against Iran, in a rare bipartisan effort that underscores renewed tensions over presidential war powers and civilian control of the military.
On Thursday, the House Armed Services Committee adopted a bipartisan provision that would require the Pentagon to notify…
For more than two weeks, around 300 immigrants locked up at Delaney Hall, an immigrant detention camp in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a hunger and labor strike, refusing to eat and refusing to work maintaining the prison for its operators, the GEO Group. They are not alone: Outside the camp’s chain-link fence, in an industrial area, their family members, loved ones, and a broader community of…
Earlier this spring, I visited the University of Pennsylvania’s College Green. I saw smiling students innocently chatting with each other as they hurriedly walked between classes. I eavesdropped on doe-eyed high schoolers on their college tours being lectured by undergrads on the grandeur of Penn. And, upon gazing up at the stately Ben Franklin statue that sits in front of College Hall, I…
Riot police over the weekend raided the headquarters of Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), following a court order to remove party leader Özgur Özel. There were subsequent demonstrations in Istanbul and Ankara against the move by the government of President Recep Tayyip****Erdoğan , one that protesters…
Let’s don’t waste any time debating the legality of President Donald Trump’s IRS “settlement” (click here to read part one and here to read part two). As my colleague Matt Ford explains at length, this deal is very illegal. The only question is whether Congress and the courts can move quickly to stop Trump’s theft of $1.8 billion from the United States Treasury to reward MAGA criminals, plus…
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Trump has to comply with the Presidential Records Act, overruling an opinion from the Department of Justice last month.
The DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion in April claiming that the act was unconstitutional because it unfairly restricted “the constitutional independence and autonomy of the Executive.” In response, two organizations,…
Donald Trump’s MAGA coalition is showing visible elite fractures over Iran, Epstein files, and “America First” pledges, but polling suggests his core base remains resilient.
ISLAMABAD: A division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday issued notices to the Capital Development Authority (CDA) on intra-court appeals filed by apartment owners of One Constitution Avenue and Bank of Punjab (BoP) and sought a response in the matter concerning lease cancellation and third-party rights.
The bench, comprising Justice Muhammad Azam Khan and Justice Raja Inaam Amin…
ISLAMABAD: The Bank of Punjab (BoP) and several flat owners of the capital’s iconic One Constitution Avenue project have filed separate intra-court appeals before the Islamabad High Court (IHC), challenging a single bench verdict that upheld the cancellation of the project’s lease and ruled that third-party buyers would “sink or sail” with the original lessee.
The decision of the single bench,…
The United States is pushing to assemble a new international coalition to restore commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the _Wall Street Journal_ reported, citing an internal State Department cable sent to US embassies earlier this week.
The initiative, called the Maritime Freedom Construct, asks foreign governments to join a US-led framework for information-sharing, diplomatic…
Back in 2023, the composer Nomi Abadi sued veteran film scorer Danny Elfman for failing to pay several installments in a sexual harassment settlement. A few months later, a Jane Doe also accused Elfman of sexual misconduct. Elfman denied Abadi's allegations in a statement to _Rolling Stone_ , leading her to sue him again for defamation in 2024; that's ongoing after a Superior Court judge rejected…
Rawalpindi Deputy Commissioner (DC) Hassan Waqar Cheema refuted on Tuesday a notification that claimed a local holiday had been announced in the garrison city for April 22 (Wednesday).
“This notification circulating on social media is fake,” the DC said on X, sharing a photo of the order, which stated that he had declared a “local holiday in the territorial jurisdiction of Rawalpindi on April…
ISLAMABAD: Health Minister Mustafa Kamal said on Tuesday that Pakistan had sufficient medicine stocks to meet demand for the next five to six months.
“Despite ongoing international challenges, the health ministry and the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap), in close coordination with the pharmaceutical industry, have taken timely and effective measures to safeguard medicine supplies,”…
Sit-down strikers occupying one of the Fisher Body plants in Flint, Michigan. (Bettmann / Getty Images)
On February 11, 1937 — forty-four days after their…
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday directed the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) to hold intra-party elections by October 15.
According to a statement issued by the ECP, a three-member bench headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja gave MQM-P until October to hold intra-party elections.
Barrister Farogh Naseem appeared on behalf of the party and…
The Trump administration is fighting to make the executive branch even more secretive.
A 52-page memorandum from the Justice Department reveals that the agency is putting up a fight against the Presidential Records Act. The department’s Office of Legal Counsel argued on April 1 that the 1978 law, which was passed in direct response to the fallout of Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, is actually…
Now that Blake Lively has seen most of her claims tossed out by a judge, pieces are starting to come together that the wife of Ryan Reynolds could have concocted a devious legal strategy that simply failed to launch. Was Lively aiming to use her claims about Justin Baldoni and Jamie Heath so that she […]
The post Blake Lively’s Backfired Legal Strategy May Have Been to “Steal Away” Exclusive…
President Trump wanted his Department of Justice to prosecute and put in jail former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Representative Adam Schiff, and numerous of his other political enemies. That effort has largely failed. So Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday. Her replacement is likely to be just as horrible and corrupt, but her dismissal is the…
When the FBI raided Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022 and found that the former president had stolen hundreds of classified documents from the White House, stashing them in the club’s closets and showers, one question stood out: Why? Was Trump coordinating with Russian intelligence? Hiding proof of aliens?
As it turns out, the answer was more self-serving: Former special counsel Jack…
As a television show, Ryan Murphy’s _Love Story_ continues his late career work in Wikipedia necromancy. The show is a farce designed for audiences who carry a deep grief at not having been able to rent in Yorkville when the getting was good.
The people whose lives were harvested for the show, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, deserve clear-eyed acknowledgement and dignity, as all other…
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday sustained an objection on the maintainability of a petition filed against the acquittal of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his sons in a Rs16bn money laundering case.
LHC Chief Justice Aalia Neelum heard the plea filed by the petitioner’s counsel, Amir Saeed Rawn. The office of the LHC’s registrar had objected to the maintainability of the…
Disgraced former San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher has returned to public-facing social media for the first time in roughly three years, presenting a narrative of personal growth and redemption following the scandal that led to his 2023 resignation. But his reemergence is already raising renewed questions about accountability, public memory, and how unresolved allegations are reframed…
Past a sloping grass bank on a deserted suburban street in the French commune of Meaux, a few miles from Paris, a blocked-off path leads to a row of corrugated sheds. A clip-art logo scrawled across a fence announces a local agricultural company. Beside it perch a few small mailboxes, a laminated card pasted onto the bottom one: Atelier Missor.
Atelier Missor bills itself as a “classical foundry…
Under Keir Starmer, the Labour Party appears incapable of imagining a world beyond American power. (Benjamin Cremel — WPA Pool / Getty…
Russia may be about to get rich off of Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran.
The spiraling regional conflict, sparked by ongoing attacks from the U.S. and Israel, has sent the price of oil skyrocketing to almost $120 per barrel. As a result, demand for discounted Russian oil has spiked.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced last week that the U.S. would issue 30-day waivers to allow…
The germ of the involvement of Peter Thiel’s Palantir in the Middle East may well have had its origins with Jeffrey Epstein, according to documents released earlier this year by the Department…
Argentinian prosecutors have uncovered a confidential blockchain advisory agreement linking President Javier Milei to Libra co‑creator Hayden Davis, adding new pressure to the country’s stalled investigation into the collapse of the LIBRA token.
According to reporting from Argentinian news outlet La Nación and sources familiar with a January 9 forensic review, multiple drafts of the agreement…
For over 75 years, the United States has been a global leader in climate change research. In the 1950s, scientists at the University of California showed that carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere were increasing and established the first long-term CO2 monitoring system, while Norman Phillips at the Institute for Advanced Studies developed the first computer model of the global climate.…
The Department of Justice has announced that it will investigate itself for failing to disclose documents containing allegations against President Donald Trump as part of the files on Jeffrey Epstein.
In a statement on X Wednesday afternoon, the Department of Justice announced that it would look into reports that documents produced for Ghislaine Maxwell’s team in discovery for her criminal case…
Donald Trump’s Justice Department is trying to help former Trump adviser Steve Bannon erase his conviction for defying a congressional subpoena.
The DOJ filed a motion in federal court Monday to throw out Bannon’s 2021 indictment for contempt of Congress after he refused to appear before the House’s January 6 committee to answer for his involvement in the Capitol insurrection. Bannon had…