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French activist and actress Adele Haenel faced censorship on French television after condemning the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
During an appearance on the French channel France 5, Haenel also accused France of being “complicit” in the genocide and called for sanctions against Israel.
Following her comments, the channel's parent company, France Televisions, removed the programme from its replay service.
On Wednesday, 9 September, Haenel appeared on the programme to discuss her first book, which addresses violence against children and the sexual abuse she suffered as a minor at the hands of director Christophe Ruggia.
A court convicted Ruggia in April of sexually assaulting her, in a case that drew national attention in the country.
French TV censors actress Adele Haenel after she condemns Israel’s genocide in Palestine
Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia, accusing it of ‘indifference’ to harassment of pro-Palestinian protesters
Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent pro-Palestinian demonstrator targeted by the Trump administration, and other former Columbia University student activists are suing their alma mater over its alleged indifference to harassment they faced there.
The lawsuit filed Monday alleges Columbia violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act when dealing with incidents against the Palestine Working Group (PWG), an organization the university suspended indefinitely in May 2025.
Khalil, who previously led the student group, was the first in a concerted campaign by the Trump administration to attempt to deport pro-Palestinian foreign students. He was arrested in March 2025 and held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody for months.
Khalil is still fighting the Trump administration’s deportation efforts and has taken his appeals to the Supreme Court after a circuit court ruled a federal judge did not have the ability to bar the Trump administration from deporting him.
The lawsuit is looking to force Columbia to reinstate PWG, take greater action against anti-Muslin discrimination, allow Khalil back on campus and pay monetary damages.
Supreme Court won't clear way for Trump's mailed ballot rules
The Supreme Court on Monday, Sept. 14 declined to let the U.S. Postal Service tighten the use of mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterm elections that will decide control of Congress.
The ruling was a loss for President Donald Trump who has challenged the security of mail-in ballots. He’s pushed for greater federal control of elections, which are administered by states − many of which said the changes can't be implemented in time.
The adminisortration had asked the court to suspend a judge's ruling that paused Trump's new role for the Postal Service.
Under the controversial order Trump signed in March, states must give lists of verified voters to the Postal Service and use a specific design for ballot envelopes that includes unique voter barcodes. The Postal Service can refuse to deliver ballots that don't meet the new rules.
Alien Terrorist Removal Court deports legal US resident to Afghanistan in first-ever case
For the first time, the Justice Department brought a case before a decades-old but until now unused special court to deport a legal US resident to Afghanistan after she conceded to being an "alien terrorist," court records show.
Prosecutors alleged Nazira Haji Zada, 47, originally from Afghanistan, supported a plan by her son and son-in-law to commit an Islamic State-inspired mass shooting on Election Day in 2024, according to court documents. Both men have already been charged and will be deported following their release from prison. Haji Zada's son, Abdullah Haji Zada, 19, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Prosecutors alleged Nazira Haji Zada, 47, originally from Afghanistan, supported a plan by her son and son-in-law to commit an Islamic State-inspired mass shooting on Election Day in 2024, according to court documents. Both men have already been charged and will be deported following their release from prison. Haji Zada's son, Abdullah Haji Zada, 19, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Haji Zada was arrested in July at her home in Fort Worth, Texas, and had an initial hearing in late July. Instead of charging Haji Zada in the criminal justice system, leaders at the Justice Department launched the first-ever civil proceedings at the Alien Terrorist Removal Court. The secretive court allows for a lower standard of proof to remove a person from American soil.
Congress created the court in 1996 to make it easier for the DOJ to use classified evidence, that they say poses a risk to national security, to deport people.
In unsealed court filings dated Aug. 20, Haji Zada waived her rights to challenge the detention and agreed to the deportation. Senior U.S. District Judge Joan Ericksen ordered her removal the same day. Haji Zada's admission will not be used in criminal proceedings, and the documents were released to the public on Friday.
Ex-CIA officer accused of stealing gold bars reaches tentative plea deal
Federal prosecutors have reached a tentative plea agreement with a former CIA officer accused of stealing hundreds of gold bars worth more than $40m from the US spy agency and hiding them in his basement, court records show.
David Rush and federal justice department prosecutors have a “plea agreement in principle”, the parties said in a Friday court filing. The parties also asked a judge to extend the 17 September deadline for three weeks through 8 October to allow them time to “resolve the matter prior to an indictment”.
“The parties need additional time to prepare the paperwork, including an agreed upon statement of facts,” assistant US attorney Raizza Ty and Rush’s attorney, Jessica Carmichael, wrote in the joint filing. “A pre-indictment resolution promotes the public interest by conserving government and judicial resources.”
There were no further details in the court filing about the working plea agreement.
Rush, a former executive service-level employee for the CIA, was fired after allegedly taking 303 bullion bars, each weighing 2.2lb (1kg) – and more than $2m in foreign currency – from his government office, according to an FBI affidavit. The search of his home in Virginia also turned up 35 luxury watches, many of them Rolex.
Mamdani and Giuliani shake hands at 9/11 commemoration
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) shook hands during the 9/11 commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero, a show of unity after Giuliani called on Mamdani not to attend the memorial.
Giuliani, who was mayor during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, told Newsmax earlier this week, “Having lost friends there, and being very close to many of the families, it offends me that he’s coming.”
“Frankly, whatever he’d like to say, he doesn’t agree that Sept. 11 was an Islamic terrorist attack on the United States of America,” Giuliani said in the Sunday interview.
Giuliani’s criticism was heavily tinged with anti-Muslim sentiment and false claims about Mamdani’s beliefs.
“They have every desire to take us over. This is not, they want to be just another religion, they want to dominate us,” Giuliani said of Muslims. “Mamdani is a clear supporter of that.”
US supreme court again rejects Missouri maps drawn to boost Republicans in midterms
The US supreme court again rejected a push backed by Donald Trump to overhaul Missouri’s congressional maps in an effort to hand Republicans an edge in November’s midterm elections.
Its latest ruling, after days of confusion, comes less than two months before the pivotal midterm elections in which control of the narrowly divided US House of Representatives could be determined by a handful of seats.
Following conflicting decisions that spanned four courts, Wednesday’s ruling appeared to set the stage for the state to use its old electoral maps this year.
The end result does not completely end confusion for Missouri’s voters, who cast ballots in primary elections using the new map, butwill vote in November on the older map.
“The state, the election apparatus, had no business going forward with the primaries under that bill, under that circumstance,” said David F Walbert, a storied voting rights attorney in Georgia, who has argued voting rights cases before the US supreme court. “The problem that we’re dealing with today is 100% the result of the state machinery that created this.”
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