An Indian court has found former Tehelka magazine editor Tarun Tejpal guilty of raping a former colleague, overturning his 2021 acquittal in a decade-old case. The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court said it was convicting Tejpal under sections of Indian law pertaining to rape and sexual harassment, legal website LiveLaw reported. This means…
President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted his own Justice Department’s decision to blame a poor contractor installation, and not vandalism, for causing the lining to peel on the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro on Friday moved to dismiss an indictment charging U.S….
Prosecutors in Milan have requested that a sports fraud case against Gianluca Rocchi, the man in charge of assigning referees in Italy’s top flight, be dismissed. The former international referee suspended himself in April after being placed under investigation for “complicity in sporting fraud” during the 2024-25 season. Rocchi, the National Referees Commission’s referee designator…
In an order issued last week, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted the Justice Department’s motion — on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — to dismiss a suit filed by several groups to compel the EPA to initiate a rulemaking to ban the use of hydrogen fluoride in…
French officials on Wednesday confirmed the first case of Ebola in the country, saying that a doctor who had traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where an outbreak began last month, had tested positive for the virus. The humanitarian worker was admitted to a special health care facility and is in stable condition, the…
France has confirmed its first case of Ebola – a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The doctor was “immediately admitted to a specialised facility” and is in a stable condition, the French health ministry said on Wednesday. DR Congo announced an Ebola outbreak last month, but…
From the moment Kevin M. Warsh stepped to the lectern for his first news conference as chairman of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, he sounded less like the head of the central bank and more like a politician. Fresh off presiding over his initial policy meeting as the leader of the world’s most powerful central…
A federal judge in Washington on Friday tossed a lawsuit filed by the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts against a jazz musician who canceled a performance at the venue’s annual Christmas Eve concert last year after the center’s board added President Trump’s name to the building. In an order throwing out the breach-of-contract…
Cattle are herded in a stable on June 5, 2026 in Dublin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed a second case of New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, in Texas. The latest detection was found in a one-month-old calf in Zavala County, Texas, roughly 5.6 miles from the first…
In Germany, it is a Brandmauer, a firewall. In France, it is the cordon sanitaire – a refusal by mainstream parties to do deals with the far right. That resolve has weakened in recent years, but naming the taboo still serves an important function. To invigilate the line where radical conservatism turns to ultranationalism, it…
