A three-judge panel in Washington, D.C. has denied the White House’s attempt to stop an appeal against the firing of the director of the government-funded media organization Voice of America (VOA), Michael Abramowitz. Newsweek contacted the White House for comment by email after office hours. Why It Matters President Donald Trump’s effort to oust Abramowitz…
The Trump administration suffered a major blow on Friday when an appeals court upheld an injunction that blocked the president’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. Newsweek contacted the Department of Homeland Security and the White House for comment on Saturday via email outside regular office hours. Why It Matters On January 20, hours…
BOSTON: The Trump administration violated the Constitution when it targeted non-U.S. citizens for deportation solely for supporting Palestinians and criticizing Israel, a federal judged said Tuesday in a scathing ruling directly and sharply criticizing President Donald Trump and his policies as serious threats to free speech. U.S. President Donald Trump (REUTERS) U.S. District Judge William…
An elderly Hong Kong man, known on the internet as “Mr Ho” after a whirlwind romance with a much younger mainland Chinese woman, has admitted spraying insecticide on a pedestrian who taunted him about controversies arising from his marriage. Tuen Mun Court on Tuesday also heard that Ho Huen, 77, had separated from his wife…
A former estate agent has been sentenced to 120 hours of community service for inciting others to expose the identity of a complainant in a sexual assault case stemming from a university orientation event in Hong Kong two years ago. Eastern Court on Thursday sentenced Vincent Edwin Chau on a count of incitement to disclose…
A Hong Kong health inspector has been sentenced to 120 hours of community service for stealing food samples bought with public money for radiation testing, with French veal stew and Arborio rice among the items seized from his home. West Kowloon Court on Thursday agreed not to jail Lau Shing-hin after the 36-year-old defendant pleaded…
A Hong Kong salesman has been jailed for two years and three months for drugging three female colleagues in his home, with the sentencing judge slamming him for inflicting serious psychological damage on his victims. The District Court on Tuesday sentenced 44-year-old Jamie Poon Tik-wai on three counts of administering a poison with intent to…
A Hong Kong warehouse worker has pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of his 90-year-old father after burning charcoal at their home in a bid to take both their lives two years ago. The High Court on Friday heard how Au Chi-ming, 53, tried to die together with his bedridden father in August 2023 after…
The husband of a former Miss Hong Kong runner-up has been cleared of assault and criminal intimidation charges after a court rejected her contradictory evidence. Eastern Court on Tuesday ruled that Vivian Lee Ming-wai’s allegations about being choked and threatened at knifepoint by businessman Johnson Chan at their home were contradicted by other contemporaneous records,…
Two young siblings in southwestern China tragically lost their lives after being stung hundreds of times by wasps, leading to the detention of the farmer raising the bees on charges of negligent homicide. This shocking event occurred on June 28 in a village in Muding county, Yunnan province, where a seven-year-old boy and his two-year-old…