(Bloomberg) The US Supreme Court’s ruling Monday that Donald Trump has some immunity from criminal charges over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results dealt a near fatal blow to the push by prosecutors to go to trial before the November election.
The justices, voting 6-3 along ideological lines, ruled for the first time that former presidents are shielded from prosecution for some official acts taken while in office, saying that a federal appeals court was wrong to reject...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Dozens of bodies discovered in a truck in Mexico have been linked to a violent turf war between rival gangs, according to authorities.
At least 19 bodies were discovered in or around a dump truck in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said on Tuesday. A recent surge in gang violence related to drug and migrant trafficking has been plaguing the region.
The Ministry of Public Security said the male bodies were...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hamas said its political chief Ismail Haniyeh was killed in “a treat Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran.”
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says three people, including two children, have been killed and 74 wounded in a strike the Israeli military described as a “targeted assassination operation” against a Hezbollah commander in southern Beirut.
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(Al Jazeera Media Network) US President Joe Biden sought to project an image of confidence during a rally in North Carolina after a woeful performance in a debate with Donald Trump exacerbated concerns about his age and mental acuity.
In remarks on Friday, Biden seemed to brush aside suggestions he should step down to make room for a younger candidate to take on Trump in the high-stakes November election.
“I intend to win this election. When you get...
(The Washington Post) Federal prosecutors improperly charged a Jan. 6 defendant with obstruction, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday, a decision that will likely upend many cases against rioters who disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election and which Donald Trump’s legal team may use to try to whittle down one of his criminal cases.
After the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors charged more than 350 participants in the pro-Trump mob with obstructing...
(The Washington Post) A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a controversial proposed Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan that would have provided billions of dollars to help address the nation’s opioid crisis in exchange for protecting the family that owns the company from future lawsuits.
The justices ruled that U.S. bankruptcy code does not allow a court to shield the Sackler family, which owns the company and had agreed to pay up to $6 billion over 18 years as...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Bolivian President Luis Arce thwarted an apparent attempted coup on Wednesday, as Army General Juan Jose Zuniga was arrested, hours after he led troops and tanks to storm the presidential palace in the capital, La Paz.
President Arce from the left-wing Movement for Socialism (MAS) party has hailed the failed coup bid, calling it a victory for Bolivia’s democracy.
“Many thanks to the Bolivian people. Long live democracy,” he said, after asserting control over...
(Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Julian Assange is standing on Australian soil, having spent his first night in his home country in nearly 15 years.
His lawyer Jen Robinson, filled with emotion as she addressed a rowdy media pack in Canberra, said Assange's return home had "saved his life".
Stella Assange, human rights activist, Julian's wife, and the mother of their two children, said she could not describe the moment when he rushed from the plane, across the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The most closely watched border in the Middle East lies between Israel and Lebanon, the site of eight months of tit-for-tat attacks and a possible Israeli land assault on its northern neighbour.
Israeli officials have repeatedly threatened to intensify attacks, saying they’re necessary to defeat Hezbollah and return 90,000 Israelis evacuated from their homes in the north since fighting started in early October.
But as Israel’s rhetoric escalates, Lebanon’s Hezbollah has responded...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russia and Ukraine traded attacks which resulted in casualties overnight and into Sunday, officials from both sides say.
At least five people were killed, including three children, in a Ukrainian attack on Crimea on Sunday, according to the Russian defence ministry, which said the supply of missiles made the United States responsible for the attack.
One person was also killed and 10 others wounded by Russian strikes on Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv,...
