San Francisco OKs $369,000 Settlement for Journalist Targeted by Police
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A journalist whose home was raided by police will get $369,000 from San Francisco taxpayers under
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An appeals court in Texas upheld a ruling against the City of Houston in a suit brought by the mother of a woman killed in a high-profile botched drug raid in 2019, known as the “Harding Street” raid. The lower court properly denied the city’s plea to the jurisdiction and the woman may continue to pursue her efforts to depose Houston police officials.
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German Police Raid Neo-Nazi Group Nationwide
German police on Thursday raided sites across the country linked to a far-right group banned by the interior ministry, weeks after an extremist gunman shot dead nine people of immigrant backgrounds.
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I.Coast Burns 3 Tons of Pangolin Scales
Ivory Coast officials on Tuesday burned three tons of scales of the pangolin, the most trafficked mammal on Earth.
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San Francisco to Pay $369,000 for Police Raid of Journalist’s Home
The city of San Francisco will pay $369,000 to settle claims over its police raid on a journalist’s home and office this past May, an action condemned by press advocates as chilling the ability of reporters to get information from anonymous sources.
Read moreGerman Police Raid Far-Right Group Nationwide
German police raided locations across the country early Friday in a probe against an extreme-right group suspected of planning “attacks on politicians, asylum-seekers and people of Muslim faith,” prosecutors said.
Read moreVenezuela Rounds up Six US Oil Executives
Six American oil executives under house arrest in Venezuela were rounded up by police hours after President Trump met Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s chief opponent at the White House, according to family members of the men.
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ACLU Sues ICE for Warrants in Dallas-Area Workplace Raid
The American Civil Liberties Union sued federal immigration officials Wednesday, demanding the search warrants for a raid last year at a Dallas-area electronics repair company that netted over 280 arrests.
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Guaidó’s Office Raided During His Trip Abroad
Intelligence police raided the office of Juan Guaidó on Tuesday, while the U.S.-backed opposition leader was traveling in Europe seeking to bolster support for his campaign to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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Prosecutors Raid Carlos Ghosn’s Home in Tokyo
Japanese prosecutors on Thursday raided the Tokyo home of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn after he skipped bail and fled to Lebanon before his trial on financial misconduct charges.
Read moreFree-Press Advocates Critical of Stifled 1st Amendment in California
From police raids on journalists’ homes to the effort to block police-misconduct files from being made public, it hasn’t been a great year for the First Amendment in California.
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Ex-Houston Cop Faces Federal Charges Over Fatal Drug Raid
A former Houston policeman made his first appearance in federal court Wednesday to face charges that a married couple was shot dead by a SWAT team in their home because he made false statements in a warrant affidavit.
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Failed Mission Raises Doubts About Mexican Security
A sloppy operation that captured Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s son, only to let him go, followed by days of changing explanations has revealed that Mexico’s government has no security strategy at all, experts say.
Read moreTrump Says Islamic State Leader Dead After US Raid in Syria
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world’s most wanted man, was killed in a U.S. military raid in Syria, President Donald Trump said Sunday. He provided graphic details of al-Baghdadi’s final moments as American forces pursued and cornered him and his children in a tunnel.
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All 39 Truck Death Victims Said to Have Come From China
British police raided two sites in Northern Ireland and questioned a truck driver as they investigated the deaths of 39 people found in a truck container at an industrial park in southeastern England. British media reported Thursday that the victims were all Chinese citizens.
Read moreSon of ‘El Chapo’ Freed After 8 Dead in Botched Raid
Eight people were killed in gun battles in the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan, Mexico, in what Mexican officials described Friday as a failed operation to arrest the son of imprisoned Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Read moreFrench Supermarkets Under Fire After Food Found in Trash
Two French supermarket chains came under fire Wednesday after a lawmaker staged raids on Paris trash cans that uncovered packages of food within their use-by dates as France marked its national anti-food waste day.
Read moreCase of Bungled Pot Raid on Tomato-Loving Family Revived Anew
The bizarre case of a Kansas sheriff’s department that mistook tomato plants and loose-leaf tea for evidence of a marijuana grow and accordingly launched a SWAT-style raid on an innocent suburban family will return to a lower court for a third crack at a judgment.
Read moreCourthouse Immigration Raids Challenged in New York
Blasting courthouse immigration raids as antithetical to public safety, New York prosecutors announced a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security.
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The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sued the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI in federal court for information on the raid on the California home of reporter Bryan Carmody.
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