Administration advances new misrepresentations of US supreme court order in case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The Trump administration escalated its stubborn defiance against securing the release of a man wrongly deported to El Salvador on Monday, advancing new misrepresentations of a US supreme court order.

The supreme court last week unanimously ordered the administration to “facilitate” the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was supposed to have been protected from deportation to El Salvador regardless of whether he was a member of the MS-13 gang.

The actor’s take on a damaged young soul fighting for autonomy is a punchy, watchable delight. The second season is slower and narrower in scope, but it is just as gutsy and thoughtful

Season one of The Last of Us was a lot. It must have surprised some viewers to find that an adaptation of a video game was among the best dramas of 2023 – although it wasn’t too unexpected for anyone who noticed that it was co-created by Craig Mazin, writer of the magnificent Chernobyl . More to the point, The Last of Us was relentless, constantly shifting and weaving to deliver devastation and heartbreak in brutal new ways. On its return for a second season, it has earned the right to take a breath and slow down.

A quick recap. A fungus-based pandemic has splintered civilisation as we know it, turning the millions of “infected” into groaning, lurching sub-humans who are not undead but are still monsters whose only impulse is to bite the healthy. Joel (Pedro Pascal), a man whose 14-year-old daughter died at the start of the outbreak 20 years ago, has travelled from Massachusetts to Wyoming with Ellie (Bella Ramsey), who was also 14 when they met and is one of the very few who are immune to the fungal lurgy. Season one’s cross-country odyssey ended with the conclusion of Joel’s quest to deliver Ellie to a resistance group who were working on a cure; when he realised the procedure would involve experimenting on Ellie’s brain, sacrificing her for the good of humanity, he killed everyone in the building to save his adopted child.

It falls to the squeezed middle to breathe life into the conclusion of the 2024-25 Premier League season. The battle for Europe is some way off being decided. And thanks to an early goal and a dogged defensive display, Bournemouth were able to relaunch their candidacy.

Having ransacked champions-elect Liverpool last week, Fulham should fear nobody but inconsistencies prevent being a full contender for the top five. Victory in Dorset could have placed them in the Justin Rose position of being within striking distance should the rest falter. Instead, Bournemouth leapfrogged the Londoners into eighth. After a first league win in seven, Andoni Iraola’s team have six games left to rescue what had seemed the lost dream of playing continental football for the first time in club history.

Police searching for a killer after multiple shots fired in an attack on a home in Ambarvale

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A woman has been killed in a drive-by shooting in suburban Sydney after she was hit in the leg when a home was peppered with bullets.

Police were searching for her killer on Tuesday morning after the overnight attack at Ambarvale, on Sydney’s south-west outskirts.

Liberty Justice Center filed lawsuit on behalf of five US businesses declaring that Trump’s tariffs overstep authority

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A legal advocacy group on Monday asked the US court of international trade to block Donald Trump ’s sweeping tariffs on foreign trading partners, arguing that the president overstepped his authority.

The lawsuit was filed by the Liberty Justice Center, a legal advocacy group, on behalf of five US businesses that import goods from countries targeted by the tariffs.

Mahdawi was at a naturalization interview in Vermont when he was taken in move his lawyers say is ‘retaliation’

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green card holder and student at Columbia University, was apprehended by US immigration authorities in Vermont on Monday, according to his lawyers and a video of the incident.

Mahdawi, who was a leader of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia last spring, was arrested by Ice on Monday morning in Colchester, Vermont, while he was attending a naturalization interview, his lawyer said in a statement to the Guardian.

They warn that the government’s rapprochement with Beijing may risk national security in wake of British Steel crisis

Senior Labour figures have urged the government to review Chinese investment in UK infrastructure in the wake of theBritish Steel crisis, warning that a rapprochement with Beijing could risk national security.

Government officials insisted on Monday the country remained open to funding from Chinese companies even after a dramatic weekend which saw ministers wrest control of the Scunthorpe steel making plant from the Chinese owners Jingye.

Cuts would mean dramatic decreases in funding for humanitarian aid, global health and international groups

The Trump administration is reportedly proposing to slash its budget to the state department by nearly half in a move that could drastically reduce US international budget and ending its funding for Nato and the United Nations, according to an internal memorandum.

The memo based on spending cuts devised by the White House office and management and budget envisions the total budget of the state department and USAID, the main foreign assistance body which has been largely dismantled by Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency”, or Doge, being reduced to $28.4bn, a reduction of $27bn or 48% from what Congress approved for 2025.

Owner of Michelin-starred Veeraswamy, London, heads to high court to object to ‘heartless’ plans to upgrade building

It has been a fixture of British-Indian dining since it first opened its doors in April 1926 on the day of Elizabeth II’s birth, serving guests over the decades ranging from Marlon Brando to the late Queen herself.

Yet despite surviving the Blitz and London’s relentlessly competitive restaurant sector, a dispute with the current monarch’s property developer threatens the survival of London’s oldest Indian restaurant just short of its 100th anniversary.