Italian judges on Friday again denied the government’s request to hold asylum seekers in Albania while their cases are being processed, dealing another major setback to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s anti-immigration policy. It was the third ruling against the policy since Ms. Meloni’s right-wing government began carrying out the plan in October, which has become … Read more
A court in Scotland blocked the production of oil and gas on Thursday at two large project sites being developed in British waters until their impact on climate change can be assessed. The decision was a blow for the sites’ developers, Shell and the Norwegian company Equinor, which have already spent or committed hundreds of … Read more
The parents of a diabetic girl who died just shy of her ninth birthday and a dozen members of their religious sect were found guilty of manslaughter by an Australian court on Wednesday for withholding lifesaving medication. The girl’s father, Jason Struhs, and the sect’s leader, Brendan Stevens, had also faced charges of murder. But … Read more
Follow live updates on the Trump administration here. Thirty years ago, Congress considered a bill much like President Trump’s recent executive order on birthright citizenship. It sought to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the United States to parents who were not legal residents. Such bills have been introduced from time to time, and … Read more
On his first full day back in the White House, President Trump reveled in his return to power and vowed to do what no president had ever done before. “We’re going to do things that people will be shocked at,” he declared. Of all the thousands of words that Mr. Trump uttered during his fact-challenged, … Read more
President Trump on Friday reinstated a longstanding Republican anti-abortion policy known as the “Mexico City Rule,” which bars federal funding from going to any overseas nongovernmental organization that performs or promotes abortions. The move came after he addressed thousands of abortion opponents in Washington on Friday to mark the 52nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s … Read more
He’s long been called the “truck stop serial killer.” Even before his murder trial in Indiana this week, Bruce Mendenhall was serving two consecutive life sentences for killing two women last seen at truck stops in Tennessee. On Wednesday, after a two-day trial, Mr. Mendenhall, 73, was convicted of murdering Carma Purpura, 31, a mother … Read more
Italy’s highest court on Thursday upheld the slander conviction of Amanda Knox, an American who was first convicted and then acquitted of killing her housemate in 2007, for accusing an innocent man in the case. The court ruling could put an end to a legal saga that has riveted followers in Europe and the United … Read more
Prince Harry’s last-minute settlement of a long-running suit with Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids was on the front page of a handful of London papers on Thursday, though conspicuously, not on any owned by Mr. Murdoch. The Sun, which admitted illegal activity by private investigators it hired more than a decade ago to dig up personal information … Read more
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order to end automatic citizenship to babies born on American soil, dealing the president his first setback as he attempts to upend the nation’s immigration laws and reverse decades of precedent. In a hearing held three days after Mr. Trump issued his executive order, a … Read more