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Yesterday — 31 August 2025Main stream

An Online Group Claims It’s Behind Campus Swatting Wave

31 August 2025 at 00:19
Members of the group offered on Telegram to draw armed officers to schools, malls and airports, though their claims are unverified. Such false emergency calls have disrupted campus life in recent days.

© Matt Slocum/Associated Press

An online group has said that it was behind a number of recent swatting episodes that have drawn law enforcement officers to American college campuses, including Villanova University on Aug. 21.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs Invalidated by Appeals Court

30 August 2025 at 09:53
The decision is a big blow to President Trump’s trade policies, but the judges left the duties in place for now to allow time for a likely appeal to the Supreme Court.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

President Trump’s punishing slate of tariffs immediately drew legal challenges from small businesses and state governments.

Judge Blocks Pillar of Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign

30 August 2025 at 10:42
Judge Jia M. Cobb rejected what she called “a truly startling argument” from the government that it could use a fast-track procedure to remove people arrested far from the southern border.

© Adam Gray for The New York Times

The Trump administration has sought to expand the process known as expedited removal, which typically avoids court proceedings.

London Man Admits to Wave of Sexual Assaults Over 3 Years

30 August 2025 at 02:08
Xu Chao, 33, could face a “lengthy” prison sentence, the judge said. Most of his victims have not been identified.

© Metropolitan Police

Xu Chao admitted to dozens of sexual offenses against at least 12 women.

Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Prosecutors’ Efforts to Level Harsh Charges Against Residents

30 August 2025 at 01:10
The extraordinary pushback in at least three separate cases comes as President Trump has flooded the streets with National Guard troops and federal agents.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

Crime has fallen in Washington since federal agents started policing Washington’s streets in large numbers, but the surge has chafed against some residents who have found the presence of troops and agents to be a cause of fear, not of security.

U.K. Court Overturns Ruling on Hotel at Center of Asylum Seeker Debate

29 August 2025 at 21:35
The decision was a temporary reprieve for the government but will intensify a political battle over how Britain should house tens of thousands of asylum seekers.

© Henry Nicholls/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, southeastern England, this month. The hotel became the center of protests after an asylum seeker who was being housed there was charged with sexual assault.

Appeals Court Declines to Block Trump From Freezing Foreign Aid

29 August 2025 at 12:43
The court voted not to revisit a fight over billions in frozen funds, but simultaneously revised an earlier order to give nonprofits that sued a narrow path forward in the case.

© Andrew Kelly/Reuters

The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seemed to render moot, for now, an emergency request the Trump administration had made with the Supreme Court.

Thai Court Dismisses Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra From Office

29 August 2025 at 18:11
Paetongtarn Shinawatra became the third member of her family to be removed from the job, as the nation plunged into fresh political instability.

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Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the scion of a powerful political dynasty, at a news conference in Bangkok on Friday, after her dismissal by the Constitutional Court.
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