Who can’t wait to live on other planets? Second thoughts may be in order after seeing the woolly sci-fi-horror trip “Ash” from Grammy-winning L.A. music guru-turned-director Flying Lotus (a.k.a. Steven Ellison), who spins a bare-bones game of cosmic survival with true sound-and-image flair and an unbridled enthusiasm for the strange beauty of mutant gore. That
The centuries-old wartime law invoked by President Trump to summarily deport Venezuelans accused of gang membership was contentious from the moment it was passed and has rarely been used in U.S. history. Before this month, the law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, had been invoked just three times: in the War of 1812, World
More than 250 people the U.S. government says are foreign gang members arrived in El Salvador by plane on March 16, where El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele confirmed they will be sent to the country’s mega-prison CECOT. El Salvador Presidency/Handout hide caption toggle caption El Salvador Presidency/Handout Government lawyers are expected back in court on
Last Updated:March 19, 2025, 18:12 IST Kambli, who joined the US Department of Justice as Deputy Associate Attorney General just a month ago, is now tasked with defending Trump’s decision to invoke the Alien Enemies Act Indian-origin lawyer Abhishek Kambli. (Image via LinkedIn) Indian-origin lawyer Abhishek Kambli is representing US President Donald Trump in defending
Agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) and other federal enforcement authorities arrested 81 illegal aliens in just five days as part of an enhanced targeted enforcement effort titled “Operation Take Back America” in Kentucky. As President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration continues, ICE announced the arrests in a statement Tuesday, which
The federal judge’s ruling was clear: The Trump administration could not use an obscure wartime law from the 18th century to deport people without a hearing. If any planes were already in the air, the judge said, they should turn back. That did not happen. Instead, the Trump administration sent more than 200 migrants to
A deportation officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts a brief before an early morning operation, Dec. 17, 2024, in the Bronx borough of New York. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP hide caption toggle caption Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 – a wartime law – to deport hundreds
Even astronauts have a sense of humor, as shown during NASA’s Crew-10 docking on the International Space Station (ISS), when they were met by an “alien” early Sunday morning. Crew-9 commander Nick Hague wore an alien mask while welcoming four newcomers after their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked to the station at 12:04 a.m., about
Last Updated:March 16, 2025, 08:56 IST The order for the enforcement of the Alien Enemies Act was temporarily blocked by a Washington federal judge. The judge, James E Boasberg, mentioned that he blocked the deportation immediately as the Trump administration was already transporting migrants. US President Donald Trump | Reuters Image Hours after Donald Trump
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump from using a 227-year-old law meant to protect the US during wartime to carry out mass deportations of Venezuelans. Trump on Saturday proclaimed immigrants belonging to the Venezuelan crime gang Tren de Aragua were “conducting irregular warfare” against the US and that he would deport them under