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"Years Of Fear, Years Of Silence": Immigrants In Hiding Facing Deportation
The community is on edge, fearing arrests and family separations. Trump has signed an executive order allocating military resources to the US-Mexico border and opened the Guantnamo Bay prison in Cuba to detain undocumented migrants.
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Trade Wars, Culture Wars, And Anti-Immigration: Donald Trump's Big Promises
From immigration, and trade wars to transgender rights, a look at Donald Trump's sensational but frequently vague promises for a second term -- much of them likely to be enacted through executive orders.
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FTX Sues Binance and Ex-CEO Zhao, Seeking $1.8 Billion Clawback
FTX is seeking to claw back almost $1.8 billion it alleges was fraudulently transferred by Sam Bankman-Fried. Binance, Zhao and other Binance executives received the funds as part of a July 2021 share repurchase deal with Bankman-Fried, the FTX co-founder who is now in prison.
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Binance Executive Denied Bail in Nigeria Money Laundering Case
Tigran Gambaryan, an American citizen, has been in detention in Nigeria since the end of February. He and Binance deny the charges against him. He had asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to free him on medical grounds, arguing that he needed to undergo surgery outside prison and that his health was deteriorating.
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6th US Inmate Execution: Texas Man Put To Death For Murder Of Twins In 1989
A Texas man was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday evening for the murders of teenage twin sisters, prison officials said, the sixth death row inmate to be executed in the United States in the past 12 days.
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US Man Executed For Killing College Student, Raping His Sister In 1995
A man convicted of murdering a college student and raping his sister while the siblings were on a camping trip was executed in the southern US state of Florida on Thursday, prison officials said.
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Former US Bank CEO Shan Hanes Jailed For Stealing $47 Million In Crypto Scheme
A former chief executive officer (CEO) of a US bank has been sentenced to more than 24 years in federal prison for embezzling $47 million in a cryptocurrency fraud scheme.
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Iranian Nobel Prize Winner Hurt In Prison Clashes With Guards: Family
Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi and other female inmates were hurt in clashes that erupted at Tehran's Evin prison following a spate of executions, her family said, raising new concerns for her health.
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Sweden, Iran Exchange Prisoners In Breakthrough Deal
Sweden and Iran carried out a prisoner exchange on Saturday, officials said, with Sweden freeing a former Iranian official convicted for his role in a mass execution in the 1980s while Iran released two Swedes being held there.
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Iraq Executes 8 Convicted Of "Terrorism" In 3rd Round Of Hangings This Month
Iraq executed eight people convicted of "terrorism", a security source and health official said Friday, the third such group put to death in the country in little over a month.
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Executed Iranian Protester's Father Sentenced To Six Years In Prison
Iranian authorities have jailed a father who campaigned unsuccessfully for clemency for his 22-year-old son after he was sentenced to death in connection with 2022 protests, his lawyer said Saturday.
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Binance Crypto Exchange Founder Changpeng Zhao Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison
Changpeng Zhao, the former chief executive of Binance, was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty to violating US laws against money laundering at the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.
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US Seeks 3 Years Prison for Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao
US prosecutors want Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former chief executive of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, to serve three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to violating laws against money laundering.
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Ukraine Accuses Russia Of Executing Injured Prisoners, Opens Probe Into Shootings
Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday they had opened an investigation into alleged shootings by Russian forces of six unarmed Ukrainian soldiers in the city of Avdiivka, and two at a village in the same region, after Russia claimed full control of th
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"Horror Show": Priest On US Prisoner's Nitrogen Gas Execution
Convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith became the first man in the US to be executed with nitrogen gas, a controversial method that was condemned by human right activists as well as the United Nations and White House.
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"Years Of Fear, Years Of Silence": Immigrants In Hiding Facing Deportation
The community is on edge, fearing arrests and family separations. Trump has signed an executive order allocating military resources to the US-Mexico border and opened the Guantnamo Bay prison in Cuba to detain undocumented migrants.
-
Trade Wars, Culture Wars, And Anti-Immigration: Donald Trump's Big Promises
From immigration, and trade wars to transgender rights, a look at Donald Trump's sensational but frequently vague promises for a second term -- much of them likely to be enacted through executive orders.
-
FTX Sues Binance and Ex-CEO Zhao, Seeking $1.8 Billion Clawback
FTX is seeking to claw back almost $1.8 billion it alleges was fraudulently transferred by Sam Bankman-Fried. Binance, Zhao and other Binance executives received the funds as part of a July 2021 share repurchase deal with Bankman-Fried, the FTX co-founder who is now in prison.
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Binance Executive Denied Bail in Nigeria Money Laundering Case
Tigran Gambaryan, an American citizen, has been in detention in Nigeria since the end of February. He and Binance deny the charges against him. He had asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to free him on medical grounds, arguing that he needed to undergo surgery outside prison and that his health was deteriorating.
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6th US Inmate Execution: Texas Man Put To Death For Murder Of Twins In 1989
A Texas man was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday evening for the murders of teenage twin sisters, prison officials said, the sixth death row inmate to be executed in the United States in the past 12 days.
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US Man Executed For Killing College Student, Raping His Sister In 1995
A man convicted of murdering a college student and raping his sister while the siblings were on a camping trip was executed in the southern US state of Florida on Thursday, prison officials said.
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Former US Bank CEO Shan Hanes Jailed For Stealing $47 Million In Crypto Scheme
A former chief executive officer (CEO) of a US bank has been sentenced to more than 24 years in federal prison for embezzling $47 million in a cryptocurrency fraud scheme.
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Iranian Nobel Prize Winner Hurt In Prison Clashes With Guards: Family
Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi and other female inmates were hurt in clashes that erupted at Tehran's Evin prison following a spate of executions, her family said, raising new concerns for her health.
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Sweden, Iran Exchange Prisoners In Breakthrough Deal
Sweden and Iran carried out a prisoner exchange on Saturday, officials said, with Sweden freeing a former Iranian official convicted for his role in a mass execution in the 1980s while Iran released two Swedes being held there.
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Iraq Executes 8 Convicted Of "Terrorism" In 3rd Round Of Hangings This Month
Iraq executed eight people convicted of "terrorism", a security source and health official said Friday, the third such group put to death in the country in little over a month.
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Executed Iranian Protester's Father Sentenced To Six Years In Prison
Iranian authorities have jailed a father who campaigned unsuccessfully for clemency for his 22-year-old son after he was sentenced to death in connection with 2022 protests, his lawyer said Saturday.
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Binance Crypto Exchange Founder Changpeng Zhao Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison
Changpeng Zhao, the former chief executive of Binance, was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty to violating US laws against money laundering at the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.
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US Seeks 3 Years Prison for Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao
US prosecutors want Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former chief executive of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, to serve three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to violating laws against money laundering.
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Ukraine Accuses Russia Of Executing Injured Prisoners, Opens Probe Into Shootings
Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday they had opened an investigation into alleged shootings by Russian forces of six unarmed Ukrainian soldiers in the city of Avdiivka, and two at a village in the same region, after Russia claimed full control of th
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"Horror Show": Priest On US Prisoner's Nitrogen Gas Execution
Convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith became the first man in the US to be executed with nitrogen gas, a controversial method that was condemned by human right activists as well as the United Nations and White House.
