Government closed has been avoided
The US Senate adopted a six-month spending bill for a voting of 54-46, justly avoiding a government closure. The bill is now heading to Donald Trump’s office to sign.
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The US Senate adopted a six-month spending bill for a voting of 54-46, justly avoiding a government closure. The bill is now heading to Donald Trump’s office to sign.
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Mahmoud Khalil’s family, a Palestinian activist who helped direct Columbia University Pro-Palestinian protests last yearpublished a video of his arrest by immigration agents in civilian clothes. The video, recorded by his wife Noor Abdalla, who is eight months pregnant, shows immigration agents confronted with Khalil and informing him that he will be in a state of arrest ” and order him to “stop resisting”.
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On Friday, the US Senate adopted the Fentanyl Act hall during a call for an appeal at 84-16. The law would impose more severe sanctions on people who traced the medication and reclassify fentanyl as an annex one substance, a classification of drugs that have high abuse potential.
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Donald Trump cancels the construction of a new FBI seat in Maryland. The FBI is currently based in the city center of Washington DC, but has long looked at a move in the suburbs of the city.
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Addressing journalists after a meeting with G7 foreign ministers in Canada, Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that more anti-war protest visasERS who have temporary status in the United States will be revokedReports Reuters.
Mahmoud Khalil’s family, a Palestinian activist who helped direct Columbia University Pro-Palestinian protests Last year, published a video of his arrest by immigration agents in civilian clothes. The video, recorded by his wife Noor Abdalla, who is eight months pregnant, shows immigration agents confronted with Khalil and informing him that he will be in a state of arrest ” and order him to “stop resisting”.
The agents then handcuffed Khalil and took him to a car, refusing to give Abdalla their name when she asked them. Khalil, a legal American resident and holder of a green card, was sent to an immigration detention center in Louisiana and is threatened with expulsion for his participation in pro-Palestine demonstrations at the University of Columbia.
In a press release, Abdalla described the video as “the most terrifying moment of my life”.
It looked like an abduction because it was: plainclothes officers – who refused to show us a mandate, to speak with our lawyer, or even to tell us their name – forced my husband to an unmarked car and I removed it from me. They threatened to take me too, even if we were calm and fully cooperating. During the following 38 hours after this video, neither I nor our lawyers Snow where Mahmoud was detained. Now he is more than 1,000 miles from his home, still wrongly owned by American immigration, “said Abdalla.
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Government closed has been avoided
The US Senate adopted a six-month spending bill for a voting of 54-46, justly avoiding a government closure. The bill is now heading to Donald Trump’s office to sign.
The ten democrats who voted to advance the expenditure bill
Ten Democrats have just passed to advance the bill on public spending, reports the Associated Press. They are:
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Democratic leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer
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Sen Dick Durbin Illinois, the second highest Senate Democrat
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Sen Angus King of Maine, an independent who caucates with the Democrats
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Sen Catherine Cortez Masto Nevada
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Sen John Fetterman Pennsylvania
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Sen Gary Peters Michigan
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Sen Kirsten Gillibrand New York
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Sen Brian Schatz Hawaii
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Sen Maggie Hassan New Hampshire
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Sen Jeanne Shaheen New Hampshire
The expenditure bill erases the main obstacle to the Senate
A bill on expenditure to avoid a partial closure of the government narrowly erased a key procedural obstacle to the Senate, opening the way to a visit to midnight.
Ten Democrats joined the Republicans to clear the threshold of 60 votes necessary to advance the measure. The Democrats confronted two painful options on Friday while a midnight deadline is looming. They could allow the adoption of a bill which, according to them, gives the president Donald Trump great discretion for spending decisions.
Or they could vote no and leave funding. The best Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, said Democrats I really had no choice because a closure would have very worse consequences for the Americans.
THE US Senate Adopted the fentanyl act on Friday during a Roll 84-16 call vote. The law would impose more severe sanctions on people who traced the medication and reclassify fentanyl as an annex one substance, a classification of drugs that have high abuse potential.
Senator Chuck Grassley, who chairs the senate judicial committee, applauded the adoption of the bill in a statement, saying,
Together, we have taken measures to open the research doors in order to permanently plan the deadliest substances that the United States has never been confronted and to send a clear message that Congress is willing and ready to act.
Together, we have taken an important measure to live up to our commitment to our voters and to lost loved ones – to put them first and serve them. »»
The MJ Survey on if Columbia University has hidden “illegal extraterrestrials” on campus
The American Justice Department Survey on if the University of Columbia has hidden “illegal extraterrestrials” on its campusAccording to a senior civil servant from the US Ministry of Justice. The agents of the Department of Internal Security searched two university residences with mandate Thursday evening.
No one was arrested and it was not clear that the authorities were looking for. But Friday afternoon, US officials announced developments related to two people they had continued in connection with the demonstrations.
A doctoral student in Columbia in India whose visa was revoked by the Trump administration Fled the United States on an airliner. A Palestinian woman who had been arrested during demonstrations at university last April was arrested by federal immigration authorities in Newark, New Jersey.
Donald Trump has just made some local news: he cancels the construction of a new FBI seat in Maryland.
The FBI is currently based in the city center of Washington DC, but has long looked at a move in the suburbs of the city. After years of disputes by the delegations of the Congress of Maryland and Virginia, the federal government selected the first as the site of the new head office, but Trump says that he will put an end to this:
You have this large FBI building, and it is a very large building, and they were going to build an FBI seat at three o’clock in Maryland, a liberal state, but that has no impact on what I am going to say. But we will stop it, do not let it happen. We are going to build another large FBI building where it is, which would have been the right place, because the FBI and the Doj must be close to each other.
The president said that he had discussed it with the director of the FBI Kash PatelWho said he preferred a smaller building:
He said I will just take a former building from the Ministry of Commerce which has around 25% of the size, and that’s what I need. We are going to have the best staff you have ever seen, and that’s what I need. It’s in a nice place, but I don’t need this large building.
Trump accuses the administration of Biden of using the Ministry of Justice “to terrorize the innocent and reward the bad guys”
With the subtleties away, Donald Trump is elongated in Joe Biden and his attorney general Merrick GarlandDistributing a list of mainly familiar grievances on their administration.
“There could be no heinous betrayal of American values than using the law to terrorize the innocent and reward the bad guys. This is what they did at a level that has never been seen before, and that’s exactly what you saw with Joe Biden Merrick Garland and their friends, “said Trump.
Regarding his familiar rhetoric on immigration, Trump said about Biden: “They imported illegal foreign murderers, drug traffickers and children from around the world to enter our country, while putting elderly Christians and anti-abortion militants for singing hymns and for saying prayers.”
While Biden presided over major levels of undocumented border crossings, there is no evidence that they encouraged them to enter, and it was widely seen As a political responsibility for the President.
And as he often does, Trump has also referred several times The long saga of Hunter Bidenlaptop.
Trump has so far confined his remarks to the recognition of the team from the Ministry of Justice, notably the Attorney General Pam Bondi and Emil Bove, who was previously his defense prosecutor and acted as a general by-procureor during the first weeks of his mandate.
“We turn the page on four long years of corruption, armaments and surrender to violent criminals, and we remain fair, equal and impartial justice under the rule of constitutional law. And you are the people who do it, ”said Trump.