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Helena commission lacks consensus for immigration next steps

Helena commission lacks consensus for immigration next steps

HELENA — The Helena City Commission has been unable to reach a consensus on how to proceed with an immigration resolution for the city’s police department after the state’s attorney general said he would again challenge such a measure if the commission tries to redraft a policy. Earlier this

Trump Justice Dept adds firing squads for federal executions

Trump Justice Dept adds firing squads for federal executions

The Trump Justice Department said Friday it is seeking to expand the use of the death penalty in federal capital cases and add the firing squad, electrocution and gas to lethal injection as methods of execution. "The prior administration failed in its duty to protect the American people by

Justice Department’s effort to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans could face widespread judicial pushback

Justice Department’s effort to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans could face widespread judicial pushback

The Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke as “the first wave” of such measures, according to recent reporting by The New York Times. These cases are being assigned to prosecutors in 39 U.S. attorney’s offices across the country. The administration

Assisted dying bill scuppered as UK advocates vow to fight on

Assisted dying bill scuppered as UK advocates vow to fight on

A bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales failed in parliament on Friday after getting bogged down in Britain's unelected upper house, as campaigners vowed to fight on. Charlie Falconer, who sponsored the legislation in the House of Lords, accused opponents of "pure obstructionism"

AG Knudsen ultimatum: County Attorney Cromwell has until Monday for ICE reversal — or else

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is giving Gallatin County Attorney Audrey Cromwell until Monday to rescind what Knudsen’s office views as her office declining to recognize U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a criminal justice agency. Knudsen’s office warned in the letter Thursday morning that he

Mass MS-13 trial held at El Salvador mega-jail

Mass MS-13 trial held at El Salvador mega-jail

Hundreds of alleged Mara Salvatrucha gang members sat chained, shaved and mute as they were accused of murder and torture during a mass trial at El Salvador's notorious CECOT jail, AFP reporters witnessed Thursday. Seated in neat columns of plastic chairs in the prison's main hall,

Going deepfake: HD 68 candidate Jennifer Carlson files complaint over AI-altered mailers

Going deepfake: HD 68 candidate Jennifer Carlson files complaint over AI-altered mailers

“DEI JENNIFER CARLSON — Using YOUR Tax dollars to push the WOKE Agenda,” reads a political mailer against the Montana House District 68 candidate from Churchill. Carlson is shown waving an LGBTQ+ flag and wearing a “she/her” button in the mailer. There’s one problem: The photo and others like