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Judge rules US must return man deported to El Salvador in ‘error’

April 5, 2025 World Justice News 0

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was expelled last month along with hundreds of […]

Two judges order Trump administration to give fired workers their jobs back

March 15, 2025 World Justice News 0

Two US judges have ordered several federal government agencies to reinstate the jobs of probationary employees fired en masse by the Trump administration last month. In California, District Judge William Alsup called the sacking of […]

Federal appeals court upholds Maryland’s ban on assault-style weapons

August 7, 2024 World Justice News 0

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Maryland’s decade-old ban on military-style firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons. A majority of 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges rejected gun rights […]

Mass shooting at a Maryland elementary school averted after teen arrested

April 20, 2024 World Justice News 0

A US teenager accused of planning a mass shooting at his former elementary school was arrested after sharing a story he wrote describing the attack, police say. Alex Ye, 18, was arrested in Maryland after […]

Iranian man and two Canadians charged over plot to kill defector from Tehran in the US

January 30, 2024 World Justice News 0

An Iranian man has been charged alongside two Canadians with plotting to kill two people, including a defector from Iran, who had fled to the United States. Prosecutors say Naji Sharifi Zindashti operates a criminal […]

Maryland judge Andrew Wilkinson shot and killed outside his home

October 21, 2023 World Justice News 0

Maryland police are hunting for a suspect in the killing of a judge, who was shot outside his home and later died in a hospital on Thursday. Police identified the victim as Washington County Circuit […]

Baltimore shooting: At least two people killed and three critically injured

July 2, 2023 World Justice News 0

At least two people have been killed and three others have been critically injured after a mass shooting in Baltimore overnight. Police said 30 people were injured during the incident at a street party in […]

Adnan Syed’s murder conviction reinstated in Serial podcast case

March 29, 2023 World Justice News 0

Adnan Syed’s murder conviction has been reinstated in the latest development in the prolonged case featured in the hit podcast Serial. At the age of 17, Syed was sentenced to life in prison in 2000 […]

Man tried 4 times for killing set free after charges dropped

January 14, 2023 World Justice News 0

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s new top prosecutor dropped all charges Friday against a Black man who stood trial four times for the same killing, freeing him from behind bars and ending a controversial case that […]

Couple who tried to sell US nuclear submarine secrets to foreign country are jailed

November 10, 2022 World Justice News 0

A US Navy engineer and his wife who sold secrets about nuclear submarines to an undercover FBI agent posing as a representative of a foreign government have been jailed. Citing the “great danger” the couple […]

Australia

Australian murderer loses bid to eat Vegemite in prison

October 26, 2026 0

A convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Australia has lost his bid to overturn a ban on prisoners consuming Vegemite – the salty yeast-based spread that has become a national symbol. Andre McKechnie argued […]

Human Rights

Patients in chains rescued from suspected illegal rehab centre in South Africa

October 16, 2026 0

A pastor and his wife have been arrested in South Africa after 200 people, some in chains, were found held at a suspected illegal rehabilitation centre in the north-eastern part of the country. The facility, […]

Human Rights

UK threatens to ban Eritreans over migrant return policy

October 15, 2026 0

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has threatened to ban all Eritreans from entering the UK if the east African country’s government does not accept more returns of small boat migrants and foreign national offenders. From Thursday, […]