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Courts are currently backlogged with 3.7m cases as US president demands more deportationsThe Trump administration fired 20 immigration judges without explanation, a union official said on Saturday amid sweeping moves to shrink the size of the federal government.On Friday, 13 judges who had yet to be sworn in and five assistant chief immigration judges were dismissed without notice, said Matthew Biggs, president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, which represents federal workers. Two other judges were fired under similar circumstances in the last week. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-administration-fires-immigration-judges Author : Associated Press Publish date :

The suspect was detained in the city of Villach after a 14-year-old boy diedA 14-year-old boy has died and four other people have been injured in a knife attack in southern Austria on Saturday, according to police, who said they had arrested a 23-year-old suspect.The suspect was detained in the city of Villach, where the attack took place, police said on Saturday. He is a Syrian national with legal residence in Austria, they said. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/teenage-boy-dies-and-four-injured-in-knife-attack-in-austria Author : Associated Press Publish date : 2025-02-15 20:31:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Wildfire-management groups say Trump’s latest push to trim government could impede firefighting effortsThe US Forest Service is firing about 3,400 recent hires while the National Park Service is terminating about 1,000 workers under Donald Trump’s push to cut federal spending and bureaucracy, according to a report on Friday.The terminations target employees who are in their probationary employment period (which includes anyone hired less than a year ago), according to Reuters, and will affect sites such as the Appalachian trail, Yellowstone, the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr and the Sequoia national forest. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/us-forest-service-national-park-service-layoffs Author :

As her £9.9bn of headroom evaporates, chancellor will have to raise taxes, cut spending or break ‘iron-clad’ fiscal rulesWhen Rachel Reeves stood up in the House of Commons on budget day on 30 October as this country’s first woman chancellor, she was brimming with pride: “To girls and young women everywhere, I say: Let there be no ceiling on your ambition, your hopes and your dreams.”Four months on, however, there are few women or men, young or old, at Westminster, who would envy Reeves’s lot in charge of the country’s finances. The bind she finds herself in is more the