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University of California students, professors, staff sue Trump admin

The Trump administration is using civil rights laws to wage a campaign against the University of California in an attempt to curtail academic freedom and undermine free speech, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by faculty, staff, student organisations and every labour union representing UC workers. The lawsuit comes weeks after the Trump administration fined the University of California, Los Angeles $1.2 billion and froze research funding after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus and other civil rights violations. It was the first public university to be targeted with a widespread funding freeze. The administration has frozen or paused federal funding over similar allegations against elite private colleges, including Harvard, Brown and Columbia. According to the lawsuit, the Trump administration has made several demands in its proposed settlement offer to UCLA, including giving government access to faculty, student, and staff data, releasing admissions and hirin

Suspect in Kirk killing charged with murder after DNA found on gun trigger

Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was charged on Tuesday with aggravated murder, a prosecutor announced, saying Robinson left behind his DNA on the trigger of the rifle that fired the fatal shot. The charge means Robinson could face the death penalty if convicted of killing Kirk last week at Utah Valley University in Orem, about 64 km south of Salt Lake City. The murder of Charlie Kirk is an American tragedy, Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray said in announcing the charges. Kirk was gunned down on Sept 10 as he spoke with students and died soon after. Prosecutors allege Robinson shot Kirk in the neck with a bolt-action rifle from the roof of a nearby campus building. A Utah Valley University police officer was watching the university campus crowd from an elevated position and identified the roof of the Losee Centre as a potential position for a shooter, Gray said. The officer found evidence on the roof immediately, he

US court blocks Trump bid to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook

A US appeals court has ruled Lisa Cook can remain on the Federal Reserve board while her lawsuit proceeds, after Trump tried to dismiss her over alleged mortgage fraud

Trump's fondness for UK royalty offers Starmer a chance to boost ties

That affection has been leveraged by the British state in the months since Trump retook the White House

Trump makes final push for court approval to fire Fed's Lisa Cook

Trump last week asked the Washington-based appeals court to temporarily pause a lower court's Sept. 9 injunction blocking him from firing Cook

Trump vows crackdown on illegal immigrants after Indian beheaded in Dallas

Trump condemned the Dallas beheading of Indian-origin motel manager Chandra Mouli Bob Nagamallaiah, blaming Biden's immigration policy and calling the accused a repeat offender

All you need to know about the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination

Authorities are still trying to learn more about what motivated the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college in Utah, as the conservative activist's family plans a memorial next week to his life and legacy. Tyler James Robinson, 22, of Washington, Utah, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated murder and other felony offences. Prosecutors are drawing up formal charges that could be filed early next week, when he will make his first courtappearance. Investigators have spoken to Robinson's relatives and carried out a search warrant at his family's home in Washington, about 390 kilometres southwest of Utah Valley University, where the shooting took place. Here are things to know about the killing: What do we know about motive? Authorities have not provided many details about why they think Robinson carried out the attack on Kirk. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said family members told authorities that Robinson had become more political in recent years. They recounted to authorities a dinne

Trump admin unlawfully directed mass US worker terminations, rules judge

Unions, nonprofits and Washington State sued after Trump's administration moved to fire roughly 25,000 probationary employees, who typically have less than a year of service

Schools tried to ban phones and avoid politics. Then came Kirk's murder

Some students watched the video in the middle of class. Others pulled out their phones as they walked out of school and found themselves watching the videos over and over. Some teachers interrupted lessons to discuss the horrific news. Almost instantly after Charlie Kirk was assassinated Wednesday at Utah Valley University, the news captured on video in grisly detail sent shockwaves through classrooms everywhere. Because no matter teens' political opinions, everyone knew Kirk. In high school classes in Spanish Fork, Utah, chatter spread fast Wednesday, as students learned of the shooting and began to wonder if Kirk would live or die. A cellphone ban meant many students didn't learn of Kirk's fate until the final bell pushing tough conversations in class to the next day. "By the end of the day, I was worn out," said English teacher Andrew Apsley. He discussed the shooting with each of his four classes Thursday at Landmark High School, about 15 miles south of UVU. In the current .

White House seeks $58 million security boost after Charlie Kirk shooting

The request to include the extra funding in an upcoming stopgap bill comes ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline when the current federal spending law runs out

Police launch search after conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot dead

Kirk, executive director of the Turning Point USA advocacy group, was speaking at an outdoor event before a crowd at Utah Valley University when a single shot was fired from a nearby building

Charlie Kirk energised conservative youth, paving way for Trump's rise

Kirk was shot dead in Utah, shocking the political world and beyond. He was one of the country's most prominent conservative figures and had flourished using a brash approach to politics

Some US federal research funding to be restored after freeze, says Harvard

The notification followed a court victory for Harvard last week in which a federal judge ruled that the US illegally froze more than $2 billion in research dollars for the school

Some National Guard to stay in DC till Nov as Trump's order set to expire

Some National Guard troops from outside the District of Columbia will remain in the nation's capital at least through the end of November at the request of the Trump administration. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said in a statement that he had approved a request from the Secretary of the Army for 150 military police to carry out patrols in Washington through November 30. It comes as Trump's emergency order over the nation's capital, which federalised its police force and launched a surge of law enforcement into the city, is set to expire overnight Wednesday after Congress failed to extend it.

Trump gives ambiguous response to Russian drone incursion into Poland

President Donald Trump on Wednesday offered an ambiguous initial response to Russia's drone incursion into Poland's airspace, a provocative act by Moscow that has put the United States' NATO allies in Europe on edge. What's with Russia violating Poland's airspace with drones? Here we go! Trump posted on his Truth Social platform late Wednesday morning, nearly a half-day after Poland announced that several Russian drones entered its territory over the course of many hours and were shot down with help from NATO allies. White House officials did not immediately respond to queries about Trump's cryptic comments about the incursion. It was the first time the transatlantic alliance has confronted a potential threat in its airspace, scrambling jets to shoot the Russian drones out of the sky. But Trump's comment stood in sharp contrast to the strong condemnation by several European leaders and was notably less robust than that of his ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker. We stand by our @N

Democrats release Trump's allegedly signed letter to sex offender Epstein

White House denied that Trump wrote the letter or created a drawing of a woman inside which the lewd note was written. It called the report false, malicious, and defamatory

US proposes annual China chip supply approvals for Samsung, Hynix

The VEU system granted Samsung and SK Hynix perpetual approval to ship estimated quantities of supplies, based on up-front security and monitoring commitments, to factories in China

Trump asks foreign firms to respect US immigration laws after Hyundai raid

Donald Trump calls on global companies to hire and train Americans, respect immigration rules, after ICE detains 475 workers at Hyundai's Georgia plant

Trump admin launches immigration crackdown in Massachusetts: Report

DHS and its US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm are calling the operation Patriot 2.0, modifying the name of a May deportation surge that led to the arrest of 1,500 people in the state

RFK Jr's family say he's 'threat' to US health, calls for his resignation

Members of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s family are calling for him to step down as health secretary following a contentious congressional hearing this past week, during which the Trump Cabinet official faced bipartisan questioning about his tumultuous leadership of federal health agencies. Kennedy's sister, Kerry Kennedy, and his nephew, Joseph P. Kennedy III, issued scathing statements Friday, calling for him to resign as head of the Health and Human Services Department. The calls from the prominent Democratic family came a day after Kennedy had to defend his recent efforts to pull back COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and fire high-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control at a three-hour Senate hearing. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a threat to the health and wellbeing of every American, Joseph P. Kennedy III said in a post on X. The former congressman added: None of us will be spared the pain he is inflicting. His aunt echoed those claims, saying medical decisions belong in the .