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Sep 5, 2026 - World

Indira Talwani’s ruling presents major setback for president as first states begin to send out mail ballots for midtermsA federal judge on Friday again blocked Donald Trump’s executive order to impose sweeping restrictions on mail-in voting, the latest in a legal back-and-forth playing out less than two months before election day.US district court judge Indira Talwani initially placed a temporary order blocking the president’s mandate and has now extended that prohibition with a stronger preliminary injunction. The ruling comes hours after North Carolina became the first state to start sending out mail-in ballots for the 3 November midterm elections. Continue reading...

Sep 5, 2026 - World

Interior department given three months to decide whether wolves can be removed from endangered species listDonald Trump signed an executive order on Friday directing the interior department to consider de-listing gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act and to contemplate whether the agency could make it easier to authorize killing them.The order gives interior secretary Doug Burgum three months to determine whether gray wolves and Mexican gray wolves have recovered enough for the federal government to de-list them. Continue reading...

Sep 5, 2026 - World

A former supporter of President Donald Trump says he will forever regret his vote after his brother died in ICE custody.According to an article by The Mirror, Naseer Paktyawal posted a tearful video, first shared by ABC News, describing the loss of his brother Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal and the guilt he carries over voting for Trump. The two men were inseparable, Paktyawal said, describing his bond."We never call each other a brother," Paktyawal, who came to the U.S. from Afghanistan, said. "We call best friends."His brother served in the U.S. Special Forces in 2005, Afghan community leaders and a refugee group said, but the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of ICE, claimed it had no record of his service, according to the Mirror.He recounted the arrest outside a Dallas apartment that led to his brother's death. He saw "two cars unmarked. Seven, eight people jump out of those cars," he said. Agents grabbed his brother and put him in handcuffs in front of his family, Paktyawal said.Later, Paktyawal got a phone call from an ICE facility. He was told that his brother had died and that his body was left in a hospital parking lot."That's the thing that I will never forget in my life," he said. Paktyawal's brother had been seeking asylum since 2021 and was the 12th person to die in ICE custody in 2026, according to The Mirror.Paktyawal voted for Trump after he arrived in the U.S. in 2014, and he blamed the choice for his brother's death, according to The Mirror."My first vote was for this president, and I regret it, and I'm gonna regret it for the rest of my life," Paktyawal said. "Because of me, because of my voting, he got arrested, and he lost his life. And I'm never going to forgive myself for that."Paktyawal said he no longer trusts the Trump administration, saying, "I don't believe this administration."

Sep 5, 2026 - World

The mistrial, on the seventh day of deliberations, leaves the case unresolved and allows prosecutors to take the 36-year-old former labour and delivery nurse to trial again.

Sep 5, 2026 - World

The Israeli army had helped plan the delivery of food aid on 1 April 2024, but things went wrong from the beginning and ended in seven deaths• Exclusive: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrikeOn the evening of 1 April 2024, a team of aid workers from World Central Kitchen (WCK) stood on Gaza’s Mediterranean shore overseeing the unloading of a barge full of desperately needed food on a makeshift jetty made of sand and rubble.The Gaza war had been raging for six months and Israel’s closure of land crossings had left the whole territory facing the threat of famine. WCK and local Palestinian contractors had constructed the jetty out of everything they could lay their hands on, including debris from the bombed house of one of the contractors, so that the pallets of humanitarian assistance could be delivered by boat from Cyprus. Continue reading...