Advocates say flawed ‘checklist’ targets Venezuelans for deportation under archaic wartime act – NPR

  1. Advocates say flawed 'checklist' targets Venezuelans for deportation under archaic wartime act  NPR
  2. U.S. Tied Migrants to Gang Based Largely on Clothes or Tattoos, Papers Show  The New York Times
  3. Expert says Tesla's best way to rebuild its brand is to ditch Musk  NPR
  4. Michael Jordan Jerseys, Tattoos: Trump's 'Alien Enemy' Guide Challenged by Lawyers  Bloomberg.com
  5. Documents appear to show how Trump admin identifies Venezuelan gang members: ACLU  ABC News
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Search under way for girl, 11, who fell into Thames in east London

‘Large-scale’ emergency response launched but later scaled down, while girl’s next of kin given support

A search is under way to find an 11-year-old girl after she fell into the River Thames in east London, police have said.

Metropolitan police officers were called to reports that the child had entered the river close to Bargehouse Causeway, near London City airport, at about 1.15pm on Monday. Emergency services launched a “large-scale response” to the incident, the force said, but the search was later scaled down.

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Trump officials to review $9bn in Harvard funds over antisemitism claims

Administration accuses university of failing to protect students and plans to look into federal grants and contracts

The Trump administration announced a review on Monday of $9bn in federal contracts and grants at Harvard University over allegations that it failed to address issues of antisemitism on campus.

The multi-agency joint task force to combat antisemitism said it will review the more than $255.6m in contracts between Harvard University, its affiliates and the federal government, according to a joint statement from the education department, the health department and the General Services Administration. The statement also says the review will include the more than $8.7bn in multi-year grant commitments to Harvard University and its affiliates.

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‘No Other Land’ Directors Thank Academy Members For Coming To Defense Of Hamdan Ballal After Attack – Deadline

  1. ‘No Other Land’ Directors Thank Academy Members For Coming To Defense Of Hamdan Ballal After Attack  Deadline
  2. Academy apologizes for not adequately supporting Oscar-winning Palestinian director  NPR
  3. Academy apologizes for muted response to Palestinian director’s assault  The Washington Post
  4. Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained by the army  AP News
  5. ‘It was revenge for our movie’: Oscar winner says soldiers helped settlers attack him in West Bank  The Guardian
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‘We weren’t stuck’: Nasa astronauts tell of space odyssey and reject claims of neglect

Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams’ story markedly at odds with abandonment narrative painted by Trump and Musk

In the end, whatever Elon Musk and Donald Trump liked to insist, astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams were never stuck, nor stranded in space, and definitely not abandoned or marooned.

The world heard on Monday, for the first time since their return to Earth two weeks ago, from the two Nasa astronauts whose 10-day flight to the international space station (ISS) last summer turned into a nine-month odyssey. And their story was markedly at odds with the narrative painted from the White House.

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Marine Le Pen attacks ban on French presidency run as a ‘political decision’

Far-right leader, who was found guilty of embezzlement of European funds, says conviction is a ‘denial of democracy’

The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has railed against a Paris court’s “political decision” to bar her from competing for the presidency in 2027, attacking the move to ban her from running for public office as “a denial of democracy”.

In a day of high political drama, Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement of European parliament funds on a vast scale, a conviction for which she was also handed a four-year prison sentence, with two of those years suspended and two to be served outside jail with an electronic bracelet. She was also ordered to pay a €100,000 (£84,000) fine.

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More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science

Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned Americans of ‘real danger in this moment’

More than 1,900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine signed an open letter warning Americans about the “danger” of the Trump administration’s attacks on science.

The letter comes amid the administration’s relentless assault on US scientific institutions which has included threats to private universities, federal grant cancelations and ideological funding reviews, mass government layoffs, resignations and censorship.

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