The top court in the US has ruled judges in lower courts have limited ability to block presidential orders, giving President Donald Trump what he called a “giant win”. The case surrounded whether Trump’s attempt to use an executive order to end birthright citizenship for non-citizens and undocumented migrants was allowed. In a 6-3 ruling,...
Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington DC Watch: Should judges be able to block Trump on birthright citizenship? The Supreme Court is expected to decide one of the most consequential cases in modern US history on Friday – whether a single federal judge can block an order from the US president from taking effect nationwide. The...
Sonja Jessup BBC London Home affairs correspondent BBC Young people at the Voyage youth charity said the Child Q case had left them feeling unsafe “I thought, if it could happen to a girl, that is younger than me, imagine what could happen to me?” It’s more than four years since a 15-year-old girl, identified only...
Ottilie Mitchell & Martin Heath BBC News, Northamptonshire Dunn family Harry Dunn, 19, died outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in 2019 The family of Harry Dunn, the motorcyclist killed in a crash outside a US military base in the UK, said an inquiry into how the Foreign Office (FO) handled the case would start within...
A 69-year-old-woman has been charged with murdering another woman who was found fatally stabbed in her home in Camden, north London, on 13 June. The Metropolitan Police has previously said 69-year-old Jennifer Abbott’s death may have been linked to a missing Rolex watch. Nancy Pexton, of Gloucester Place, Westminster is due to appear later at...
Emma Saunders Culture reporter Getty Images Taylor Swift has been described in legal documents as one of Blake Lively’s “dragons” Messages between Blake Lively and Taylor Swift can be handed over to Justin Baldoni as part of his ongoing high-profile legal battle with the actress, a judge has decided. Communications between Lively and her friend...
Cheshire Police Lucy Letby is serving 15 whole-life prison sentences for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others Former health secretary Sir Jeremy Hunt has called for an “urgent re-examination” of the Lucy Letby case after “serious and credible” questions were raised by experts. The Conservative MP pleaded for the Criminal Cases Review...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Amy Wadge and Ed Sheeran won the Grammy Award for song of the year in 2016 The US Supreme Court has rejected an attempt to revive the long-running copyright trial over his hit song Thinking Out Loud. On Monday, the court refused to hear an appeal from Structured Asset...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major donor to President Donald Trump that has...
The BBC has confirmed that it will not be appealing Gerry Adams’ libel case victory. The former Sinn Féin leader sued the corporation over a 2016 BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight story and online article on the murder of British agent Denis Donaldson. Last month, a jury found Mr Adams, 76, was defamed when it was...
A New York judge declared a mistrial on a rape charge in Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes trial after one juror refused to continue deliberations over an alleged attack in 2013 on actress Jessica Mann. The jury had found Weinstein guilty of one count of sexual assault and not guilty of another count on Wednesday, but...
A man on trial with his partner over the death of their newborn baby has described the prosecution case against him as “like a script from a movie”. Mark Gordon said in his closing speech that the prosecution had “just made things up” during his retrial with Constance Marten at the Old Bailey in London....
Alamy Sir Brian Leveson is the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, responsible for overseeing MI5’s activities The watchdog charged with holding MI5 to account rewrote a report into the handling of a violent neo-Nazi agent after the Security Service gave it false information, the BBC can reveal. An early draft of the report by the Investigatory Powers...
PA Media MI5 told the court everyone from director general Ken McCallum downwards acknowledged the seriousness of the false evidence MI5 lied “deliberately and repeatedly” as it tried to defend its handling of a neo-Nazi agent who abused women, the BBC has told a panel of High Court judges. The corporation argued the threshold for...
A corporate manslaughter investigation has been opened into failings at maternity units in Nottingham, police have said. Nottinghamshire Police said it was examining whether maternity care provided by the Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS trust had been grossly negligent. The trust is at the centre of the largest maternity inquiry in the history of the...