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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a ban introduced by ex-president Donald Trump's administration on bump stocks -- devices which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire like a machine gun -- is unconstitutional. The case stems from the worst mass shooting in US history, in October 2017, when a man fired on a crowd attending an outdoor music concert in Las Vegas, killing 58 people and wounding around 500. Most of his 22 guns were equipped with bump stocks, allowing them to fire as many as nine bullets a second. The court voted along ideological lines, 6-3 in favor of the ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a bid to restrict a pill widely used to terminate pregnancies, but President Joe Biden warned the decision will not defuse a bitter election fight over abortion. The top court, in a unanimous opinion, said the anti-abortion groups and doctors challenging the medication, mifepristone, lacked the legal standing to bring the case. Abortion rights are one of the key issues in the November election and the Biden administration had urged the court to maintain the availability of the drug, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administrat...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an attempt by a California man to trademark the suggestive phrase "Trump too small." The court, in a unanimous opinion, ruled that the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) had correctly turned down the request to trademark the slogan about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Steve Elster, who wanted to print T-shirts with the phrase, had claimed before the court that the PTO's rejection of his trademark application was a violation of his First Amendment free speech rights. The Supreme Court rebuffed the argument, noting that...
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By Anne-Laure MONDESERT avec Geza MOLNAR à Budapest Bruxelles (Belgique) (AFP) - La justice européenne a condamné jeudi la Hongrie à payer une amende record de 200 millions d'euros, ainsi qu'une astreinte d'un million d'euros par jour, pour non-respect du droit de l'UE en matière d'asile, une décision aussitôt fustigée par Viktor Orban. Budapest a été sanctionné pour ne pas s'être conformé à une décision précédente de la Cour de justice de l'UE en décembre 2020, en persistant à ne pas appliquer "les règles du droit de l'Union en matière, notamment, de procédures relatives à l'octroi de la prot...
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The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted in favour of holding US Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress over his handling of the Biden classified documents case, in a move that is expected to be of little consequence. Just one Republican sided with the Democrats against prosecution. Seven Democrats and one Republican abstained. In a statement released after the vote, Garland said Republicans had "turned a serious congressional authority into a partisan weapon." Republicans have been calling on the attorney general to release a tape from a probe...
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Washington (AFP) - The Republican-led US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden's questioning in a criminal investigation. The move -- seen as symbolic, since Garland's Justice Department would ultimately decide whether to press charges -- is the latest escalation in hostilities between allies of Republican Donald Trump and the White House ahead of November's election. Republicans have been demanding the tapes of Biden's October deposition with Special Counsel Robert Hur, w...
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Washington (AFP) - An Arizona man who allegedly wanted to "incite a race war" ahead of the November US presidential election has been indicted on firearms charges, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Mark Adams Prieto, 58, of Prescott, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday and faces up to 25 years in prison, the department said in a statement. Prieto entered into discussions between January and May with two individuals to "devise a plan to commit a mass shooting of African Americans and other minorities to incite a race war prior to the 2024 US Presidential Election," it said. Pri...
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By Charlotte VAN OUWERKERK La Haye (AFP) - Un tribunal néerlandais rend mercredi son verdict dans le procès de neuf suspects pour le meurtre en 2021 du célèbre journaliste spécialisé dans les affaires criminelles Peter R. de Vries, dont la mort avait bouleversé les Pays-Bas. Le journaliste de 64 ans a été abattu en plein jour dans une rue du centre d'Amsterdam le 6 juillet 2021. Il est mort neuf jours après l'attaque qui, selon le parquet, était liée à son rôle dans le procès d'un baron de la drogue néerlandais. M. De Vries était alors conseiller du principal témoin à charge dans ce procès con...
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Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump could be tempted to use the conviction of Hunter Biden on felony gun charges as a campaign cudgel against Joe Biden, who is fiercely attached to his son, but experts say that strategy is risky. Indeed, Trump's campaign team did not wait long to offer a hot take on Tuesday's ruling in a Delaware court, which stemmed from the younger Biden's 2018 purchase of a handgun while addicted to crack cocaine. "This trial has been nothing more than a distraction from the real crimes of the Biden Crime Family, which has raked in tens of millions of dollars from China, Russia...
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Washington (AFP) - A 69-year-old man convicted of murdering his ex-lover in 2009 was executed on Tuesday in the midwestern US state of Missouri. David Hosier, a former US Navy sailor and firefighter, was put to death by lethal injection at a prison in the town of Bonne Terre. Hosier was pronounced dead at 6:11 pm (2311 GMT), the Missouri Department of Corrections said in a statement. Hosier had long claimed he was innocent of the murders of Angela Gilpin and her husband Rodney Gilpin, but Missouri Governor Mike Parson, a Republican, rejected his appeal for clemency on Monday. He was the seco...
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