Celebrity chef José Andrés lashed out at President Donald Trump this week, accusing him of harming Washington, D.C.’s restaurant industry with his aggressive anti-crime policies and immigration enforcement.
Switzerland’s supreme court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, upholding his conviction for rape and sexual coercion. Ramadan, the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, had been sentenced by a Geneva appeals court in 2023 to three years in prison, two of which were suspended, for assaulting a woman in a Geneva hotel nearly two decades ago.
Federal agents in Los Angeles reached a major milestone Tuesday with the 5,000th arrest of a criminal alien in the sanctuary city under the direction of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The arrest highlights the Trump administration’s aggressive enforcement stance in liberal jurisdictions that have long resisted cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is pushing back against President Donald Trump’s executive order to cut federal funding from states that continue cashless bail policies, calling it a “reckless” move that would jeopardize public safety. The confrontation underscores a renewed national debate over bail reform, law enforcement, and violent crime ahead of the 2025 election season.
Sexual offence convictions involving foreign nationals in Britain have surged by over 60% in just four years, significantly outpacing the rise in convictions among British citizens. The Ministry of Justice revealed migrants accounted for 14.1% of rape and sexual offence convictions in 2024—roughly one in seven—according to Police National Computer data.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) issued a firm rebuke Sunday to President Donald Trump’s pledge to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, calling the potential move “unconstitutional” and promising legal resistance. Johnson’s statement came after Trump announced Friday that Chicago would likely be the next city targeted in his national push to combat crime, illegal immigration, and homelessness.
Ian Wilkinson, the sole survivor of a 2023 mushroom poisoning that killed three others, delivered an emotional victim impact statement Monday as convicted killer Erin Patterson awaits sentencing for triple murder. Patterson, 50, was found guilty in July of serving a toxic lunch of beef Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms to family members at her home in Leongatha, Victoria.
During an appearance on HBO’s Real Time Friday night, New York Times opinion writer and Duke University journalism professor Frank Bruni acknowledged that President Donald Trump is addressing a real and pressing issue: rising urban crime. Bruni conceded that crime levels in major cities—including Washington, D.C.—are too high, and that Trump is "putting his finger on a problem that people rightly care about."
Roughly 1,700 National Guard troops are being deployed across 19 states as President Donald Trump intensifies efforts to crack down on illegal immigration and restore law and order in crime-ridden cities. The activation, stretching from August through mid-November, involves support roles for federal immigration enforcement while reinforcing visible deterrence.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests surged by 367% in Georgia this year, with 4,500 illegal aliens detained between January 20 and July 31—up sharply from the 963 arrests made under the Biden administration during the same timeframe in 2021, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
