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A woman covers her face from tear gas as federal immigration officers confront protesters outside Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)2026-01-15T20:26:55Z Federal immigration agents deployed to Minneapolis have used aggressive crowd-control tactics including pointing rifles at demonstrators and deploying chemical irritants early in confrontations actions the government says are necessary to protect officers from violent attacks. But law enforcement experts warn these measures are escalating risk and being carried out by agents without extensive crowd-management training. Videos and witness accounts reviewed by The Associated Press show federal agents breaking vehicle windows, pulling occupants from cars and deploying chemical agents such as tear gas and pepper spray during close confrontations with protesters. Experts say such tactics, while sometimes justified in targeted arrests, carry heightened risks when used on crowds. The confrontations come amid a major immigration enforcement surge ordered by the Trump administration in early December, which sent more than 2,000 officers from across the Department of Homeland Security into the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Many of the officers involved are typically tasked with arrests, deportations and criminal investigations, not managing volatile public demonstrations. What is unfolding in Minneapolis reflects a broader shift in how the federal government is asserting its authority during protests, relying on immigration agents and investigators to perform crowd-management roles traditionally handled by local police. Experts warn the approach runs counter to de-escalation standards and risks turning volatile demonstrations into deadly encounters. Tensions escalated after the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a 37-year-old woman killed by an immigration agent last week, an incident federal officials have defended as self-defense after they say Good weaponized her vehicle. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on The killing has intensified protests and scrutiny of the federal response. On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota asked a federal judge to intervene, filing a lawsuit on behalf of six residents seeking an emergency injunction to limit how federal agents operate during protests, including restrictions on the use of chemical agents, the pointing of firearms at non-threatening individuals and interference with lawful video recording. Stepping outside their traditional role Theres so much about whats happening now that is not a traditional approach to immigration apprehensions, said former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldaa.Saldaa, who left the post at the beginning of 2017 as President Donald Trumps first term began, said she cant speak to how the agency currently trains its officers. When she was director, she said officers received training on how to interact with people who might be observing an apprehension or filming officers, but agents rarely had to deal with crowds or protests. This is different. You would hope that the agency would be responsive given the evolution of whats happening brought on, mind you, by the aggressive approach that has been taken coming from the top, she said. Ian Adams, an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of South Carolina, said the majority of crowd-management or protest training in policing happens at the local level usually at larger police departments that have public order units. Its highly unlikely that your typical ICE agent has a great deal of experience with public order tactics or control, Adams said. DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a written statement that ICE officer candidates receive extensive training over eight weeks in courses that include conflict management and de-escalation. She said many of the candidates are military veterans and about 85% have previous law enforcement experience.All ICE candidates are subject to months of rigorous training and selection at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, where they are trained in everything from de-escalation tactics to firearms to driving training. Homeland Security Investigations candidates receive more than 100 days of specialized training, she said. Ed Maguire, a criminology professor at Arizona State University, has written extensively about crowd-management and protest- related law enforcement training. He said while he hasnt seen the current training curriculum for ICE officers, he has reviewed recent training materials for federal officers and called it horrifying.Tactics that escalate tensionMaguire said what hes seeing in Minneapolis feels like a perfect storm for bad consequences.You cant even say this doesnt meet best practices. Thats too high a bar. These dont seem to meet generally accepted practices, he said. Were seeing routinely substandard law enforcement practices that would just never be accepted at the local level, he added. Then there seems to be just an absence of standard accountability practices.Adams noted that police department practices have evolved to understand that the sort of 1950s and 1960s instinct to meet every protest with force, has blowback effects that actually make the disorder worse. He said police departments now try to open communication with organizers, set boundaries and sometimes even show deference within reason. Theres an understanding that inside of a crowd, using unnecessary force can have a domino effect that might cause escalation from protesters and from officers. Despite training for officers responding to civil unrest dramatically shifting over the last four decades, there is no nationwide standard of best practices. For example, some departments bar officers from spraying pepper spray directly into the face of people exercising Constitutional speech. Others bar the use of tear gas or other chemical agents in residential neighborhoods. Regardless of the specifics, experts recommend that departments have written policies they review regularly.Organizations and agencies arent always familiar with what their own policies are, said Humberto Cardounel, senior director of training and technical assistance at the National Policing Institute. They go through it once in basic training then expect (officers) to know how to comport themselves two years later, five years later, he said. We encourage them to understand and know their training, but also to simulate their training.Adams said part of the reason local officers are the best option for performing public order tasks is they have a compact with the community.I think at the heart of this is the challenge of calling what ICE is doing even policing, he said. Police agencies have a relationship with their community that extends before and after any incidents. Officers know we will be here no matter what happens, and the community knows regardless of what happens today, these officers will be here tomorrow.Saldaa noted that both sides have increased their aggression. You cannot put yourself in front of an armed officer, you cannot put your hands on them certainly. That is impeding law enforcement actions, she said. At this point, Im getting concerned on both sides the aggression from law enforcement and the increasingly aggressive behavior from protesters. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

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Scott Adams, the creator of the popular comic strip Dilbert has died at 68, having drawn criticism after veering into far right politics. What do you think?This is a very sad day for a small group of very weird men.Corina Wayman, Sock DarnerCant wait to see what direction JD Vance takes Dilbert.Vincent Embser, Pinwheel TesterHuge win for Peanuts Supremacists.John Ingles, Pickling AssistantThe post Dilbert Creator Dies appeared first on The Onion.

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NCAA logo displayed on the fence before an NCAA softball game between Jacksonville and FGCU, March 24, 2024, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough, File)2026-01-15T21:59:21Z HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A federal investigation into a sprawling betting scheme to fix basketball games stretched from the Chinese Basketball Association to the NCAA and has ensnared 26 people, including current and former college players, prosecutors revealed Thursday.The charges filed in federal court in Philadelphia include bribery, wire fraud and conspiracy. How did the scheme work?A group of fixers, including gamblers, recruited players with the promise of a big payment in exchange for purposefully underperforming during a game, prosecutors said. Those fixers would then bet against the players teams in those games, defrauding sportsbooks and other bettors, authorities said.How did the players get paid?In cash, hand-delivered by fixers after a game was successfully rigged, prosecutors say. That meant fixers flying into more than a dozen states to drop off cash to players on their campuses or while they were traveling between games. How much money was involved?Prosecutors didnt say exactly how much the fixers allegedly received in ill-gotten gains. However, they said that the fixers wagered millions of dollars, generating substantial proceeds for themselves, and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to players in bribes.Payments to players typically ranged from $10,000 to $30,000 per game. Meanwhile, fixers put nearly $200,000 in bribe payments and shared winnings from two rigged Chinese Basketball Association games into one players storage locker in Florida, authorities said. How many games were involved?At least 29 NCAA games as recently as January 2025, the indictment said, plus two games in the Chinese Basketball Association.Did any of the charged players compete this season?Four of the players charged Simeon Cottle, Carlos Hart, Oumar Koureissi and Camian Shell played for their current teams within the last few days, although the allegations against them dont involve this season, but the 2023-24 season.When did this start?Fixers started in 2023 with the two games in the Chinese Basketball Association and, successful there, moved on to rigging NCAA games after that. Who were the alleged fixers?Six men primarily, prosecutors say. Three had connections to players through coaching and training, two were described as gamblers and sports handicappers, and one is former NBA player Antonio Blakeney, prosecutors say.Is the investigation over?The indictment suggests that many others, including unnamed players, had a role in the scheme but werent charged, and U.S. Attorney David Metcalf said the investigation was continuing.How does this fit into broader concerns about sports gambling?The indictment is the latest gambling scandal to hit the sports world since a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision unleashed a meteoric rise in legal sports betting. It follows a federal takedown of illegal gambling operations linked to professional basketball, NCAA lifetime bans on at least 10 basketball players for betting and two Major League baseball players facing federal charges that they took bribes to help gamblers.___Follow Marc Levy at http://twitter.com/timelywriter MARC LEVY Levy covers politics and state government in Pennsylvania for The Associated Press. He is based in Harrisburg. twitter

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A judge in Milwaukee brought a 13-year quest for justice by a grieving father to a close on Thursday, accepting a plea deal for two men charged criminally for their role in the killing of his teenaged son.Robert W. Beringer and Jesse R. Cole pleaded guilty to felony murder under a deferred prosecution agreement that allows them to avoid jail time yet publicly stand accountable for their actions leading to the 2012 death of Corey Stingley. The men helped restrain the 16-year-old inside a convenience store after an attempted shoplifting incident involving $12 worth of alcohol.What happened to Corey Stingley should have never happened. His death was unnecessary, brutal and devastating, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne told the judge in a letter filed with the court.Both of Stingleys parents spoke directly to the judge in an hourlong hearing in a courtroom filled with family members, community activists, spiritual leaders and some of the teens former classmates.Corey was my baby. A mother is not supposed to bury her child, Alicia Stingley told the judge. She spoke of the grace of forgiveness, and after the hearing she hugged Beringer. The Stingleys surviving son, Cameron, shook both mens hands.The agreement requires Cole and Beringer to make a one-time $500 donation each to a charitable organization of the Stingley familys choosing in honor of Corey. After six months, if the two men comply with the terms and do not commit any crimes, the prosecution will dismiss the case, according to documents filed with the court.ProPublica, in a 2023 story, reexamined the incident, the legal presumptions, the background of the men and Stingleys fathers relentless legal campaign to bring the men into court. The three men previously had defended their actions as justified and necessary to deal with an emergency as they held Stingley while waiting for police to arrive.Ozanne, who was appointed in 2022 to review the case, recommended the agreement after the two men and the Stingley family engaged in an extensive restorative justice process, in which they sat face to face, under the supervision of a retired judge, and shared their thoughts and feelings. Ozanne said in the letter that the process appears to have been healing for all involved.From the bench, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Laura Crivello said she found the agreement to be fair and just and commended the work of all the parties to come to a resolution.Maybe this is the spark that makes other people see similarities in each other and not differences, she said. Maybe this is the spark that makes them think about restorative justice and how do we come together. And maybe this is part of the spark that decreases the violence in our community and leads us to finding the paths to have those circles to sit down and have the dialogue and to have that conversation. So maybe theres some good that comes out of it.Craig Stingley, Coreys father, said during the hearing that his 13-year struggle has turned into triumph.Earlier, the Stingley family filed a statement with the court affirming its support for the agreement and the restorative justice process.We sought not vengeance, but acknowledgement of Coreys life, his humanity, and the depth of our loss, it states. We believe this agreement honors Coreys memory and offers a model of how people can come together, even after profound harm, to seek understanding and healing.The family remembered Stingley as a vibrant, loving son, brother, and friend and found that the restorative dialogues brought truth, understanding, and a measure of healing that the traditional court process could not.Jonathan LaVoy, Coles attorney, told reporters after the hearing: This has been a long 13 years. Hes been under investigation with multiple reviews over that time. I think everyone is just so happy that this day has come, that theres been some finality to this whole situation.In a joint written statement provided to the court, Beringer and Cole said they came to recognize the profound ripple effects of the incident and their connection to Stingleys death. They expressed sorrow that Stingleys time on this earth ended far too soon.The proceeding followed years of work by Craig Stingley to force the justice system to view his son as a crime victim whose life was unlawfully cut short by Beringer, Cole and another store patron, Mario Laumann, who died in 2022.Prosecutors at the time declined to charge anyone, saying the men did not intend to kill Corey Stingley when they tackled him and pinned him to the floor of VJs Food Mart, in West Allis, Wisconsin. They were detaining him for police after the youth attempted to steal bottles of Smirnoff Ice. In surveillance video, Laumann can be seen holding Stingley in a chokehold while the other two men aided in restraining him. A witness told police Laumann was squeezing the hell out of the teenager.The Milwaukee County Medical Examiners Office found that Stingley died of a brain injury due to asphyxiation after a violent struggle with multiple individuals. It ruled the death a homicide.Under Wisconsin law, the charge of felony murder is brought in cases in which someone dies during the commission of another alleged crime in this case false imprisonment.Ozanne wrote to the court that his analysis found that there is no doubt Cole, Beringer and Laumann caused Corey Stingleys death.All three men, he wrote, restrained Stingley intentionally and without his consent and without legal authority to arrest him. Simply put, Corey, a teenager, was tackled and restrained to the ground by three grown men because they suspected him of shoplifting, Ozanne wrote. They killed him while piled on top of his body awaiting the police.But he noted that there is no evidence that Beringer or Cole knew that Stingley was in medical distress during the incident. He described their hold on him as rudimentary detention techniques.It was Laumann, Ozanne concluded, who strangled Corey Stingley to death. Ozanne wrote that surveillance video shows Laumanns arm for several minutes across Stingleys neck as he fades out of consciousness.If Laumann were still alive, Ozanne said in court, prosecutors likely would have been seeking a lengthy prison term for him.Defendant Jesse Cole sits in the courtroom on Thursday before a hearing on his case. Taylor Glascock for ProPublicaDefendant Robert Beringer walks into the Milwaukee County courtroom. Taylor Glascock for ProPublicaStingley died the same year as Trayvon Martin, a Black Florida teen shot to death by a neighborhood volunteer watchman, who was acquitted in 2013. Martins case drew national attention and led to the formation of the Black Lives Matter movement. But Stingleys death after being restrained by three white men did not garner widespread notice outside Wisconsin.Over the years, Craig Stingley unsuccessfully advocated for the men to face charges. Two prosecutors reviewed the case, but nothing came of it.He then discovered an obscure John Doe statute, dating back to Wisconsins territorial days, that allows a private citizen to ask a judge to consider whether a crime has been committed and, if so, by whom when a district attorney cant or wont do so.Stingley filed such a petition in late 2020. That led to the appointment of Ozanne as a special prosecutor to review the matter yet again. In 2024, Ozanne informed the Stingley family that his office had found evidence of a crime but that a guilty verdict was not assured for the remaining two men.That set in motion an effort to achieve healing and accountability through a restorative justice process. Restorative justice programs bring together survivors and offenders for conversations, led by trained facilitators, to work toward understanding and healing and how best to make amends. Last year, Stingley and members of his family met on separate occasions with both Cole and Beringer through the Andrew Center for Restorative Justice, part of the law school at Milwaukees Marquette University.The discussions led to the deferred prosecution agreement.In an interview, Anthony Neff, a longtime friend of Craig Stingleys, recalled seeing Corey Stingley in a hospital bed, attached to tubes and a ventilator in his final days. Corey Stingley had been a running back on his high school football team. Everyone in the program showed up for the funeral, Neff said.Coaches. The ball boys. The cheerleaders. I mean, theyre all standing in solidarity with Craig and the family, he said.In the years since, he and other golfing buddies of Craig Stingleys have provided emotional support in his quest. Neff called it a lesson in civics, a master lesson in civics.The post A Black Teen Died Over a $12 Shoplifting Attempt. 13 Years Later, Two Men Plead Guilty in His Killing. appeared first on ProPublica.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, left, and Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells speak to the media during a visit to St John Paul II College in Canberra, Australia, on Dec. 11, 2025. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)2026-01-16T04:31:08Z WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) Social media companies have revoked access to about 4.7 million accounts identified as belonging to children in Australia since the country banned use of the platforms by those under 16, officials said.We stared down everybody who said it couldnt be done, some of the most powerful and rich companies in the world and their supporters, communications minister Anika Wells told reporters on Friday. Now Australian parents can be confident that their kids can have their childhoods back.The figures, reported to Australias government by 10 social media platforms, were the first to show the scale of the landmark ban since it was enacted in December over fears about the effects of harmful online environments on young people. The law provoked fraught debates in Australia about technology use, privacy, child safety and mental health and has prompted other countries to consider similar measures. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on Officials said the figure was encouragingUnder Australian law, Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube and Twitch face fines of up to 49.5 million Australian dollars ($33.2 million) if they fail to take reasonable steps to remove the accounts of Australian children younger than 16. Messaging services such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are exempt.To verify age, platforms can either request copies of identification documents, use a third party to apply age estimation technology to an account holders face, or make inferences from data already available such has how long an account has been held.About 2.5 million Australians are aged between 8 and 15, said the countrys eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, and past estimates suggested 84% of 8- to 12-year-olds held social media accounts. It was not known how many accounts were held across the 10 platforms but Inman Grant said the figure of 4.7 million deactivated or restricted was encouraging. Were preventing predatory social media companies from accessing our children, Inman Grant said. The 10 biggest companies covered by the ban were compliant with it and had reported removal figures to Australias regulator on time, the commissioner said. She added that social media companies were expected to shift their efforts from enforcing the ban to preventing children from creating new accounts or otherwise circumventing the prohibition.Meta removed 550,000 accountsAustralian officials didnt break the figures down by platform. But Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, said this week that by the day after the ban came into effect it had removed nearly 550,000 accounts belonging to users understood to be under 16.In the blog post divulging the figures, Meta criticized the ban and said smaller platforms where the ban doesnt apply might not prioritize safety. The company also noted browsing platforms would still present content to children based on algorithms a concern that led to the bans enactment.The law was widely popular among parents and child safety campaigners. Online privacy advocates and some groups representing teenagers opposed it, with the latter citing the support found in online spaces by vulnerable young people or those geographically isolated in Australias sprawling rural areas.Some said they had managed to fool age assessing technologies or were helped by parents or older siblings to circumvent the ban. Other countries might followSince Australia began debating the measures in 2024, other countries have considered following suit. Denmarks government is among them, saying in November that it had planned to implement a social media ban for children under 15.The fact that in spite of some skepticism out there, its working and being replicated now around the world, is something that is a source of Australian pride, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Friday.Opposition lawmakers have suggested that young people have circumvented the ban easily or are migrating to other apps that are less scrutinized than the largest platforms. Inman Grant said Friday that data seen by her office showed a spike in downloads of alternative apps when the ban was enacted but not a spike in usage. There is no real long-term trends yet that we can say but were engaging, she said.Meanwhile, she said, the regulator she heads planned to introduce world-leading AI companion and chatbot restrictions in March. She didnt disclose further details. CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-MCLAY Graham-McLay is an Associated Press reporter covering regional and national stories about New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands by putting them in a global context. She is based in Wellington. twitter mailto

Trader Michael Capolino works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)2026-01-16T05:57:38Z BANGKOK (AP) Asian shares were mixed Friday after Wall Street broke a two-day losing streak and edged back toward record levels, helped by advances for Big Tech companies like Nvidia. U.S. futures advanced and oil prices slipped. Tech shares regained momentum after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., a major supplier to the industry, reported strong profits and investment plans. TSMC gained 3% early Friday and Taiwans benchmark Taiex was up 1.9%.The frenzy around AI has sent Nvidia and other superstar stocks to dizzying heights, stirring criticism that their prices had shot too high. Nvidia rose 2.1% on Thursday after TSMCs Chief Financial Officer Wendell Huang said its seeing continued strong demand in an encouraging signal for the entire AI industry.TSMCs stock that trades in the United States rose 4.4% on Thursday. The gains also followed the signing of a U.S.-Taiwan trade deal involving $250 billion in new investments by Taiwans semiconductor and tech companies in the U.S. In exchange, the Trump administration will cut tariffs on Taiwanese goods. The deal aims to establish a strategic economic partnership and upgrade U.S. industrial infrastructure. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 shed 0.3% to 53,936.17, while Hong Kongs Hang Seng gave up 0.6% to 26,770.56. The Shanghai Composite index lost 0.3% to 4,101.91. China is due to report its economic growth data for 2025 on Monday. Forecasts are for the economy to have expanded at about a 4.5% annual pace, slowing from earlier in the year. Elsewhere in Asia, South Koreas Kospi rose 0.9% to a record 4,840.74. The benchmark has been trading at record highs for weeks, helped by a recovery in confidence in AI-related shares. Samsung Electronics gained 3.5%. In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.5% to 8,903.90. Indias Sensex rose 0.4%. Wall Street steadied on Thursday as stocks related to artificial-intelligence bounced back. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.6%. The Nasdaq composite rose 0.2% to 23,530.02.Easing oil prices also helped to calm investors jitters. Early Friday, a barrel of benchmark U.S. crude cost $59.21, up 14 cents from a day earlier. It sank 4.6% on Thursday after Trump said he had heard on good authority that plans for executions in Iran had stopped amid widespread protests against the countrys leadership.Brent crude, the international standard, added 10 cents to $63.86 per barrel. It dropped 4.1% on Thursday. Financial markets took Trumps comments about Iran as a signal that tensions flaring above some of the worlds largest oil deposits could ease, which in turn could lower the possibility of disruptions to oil supplies. Earnings reporting season for big U.S. companies continued to pick up pace, meanwhile, with several more big financial companies delivering their results for the last three months of 2025.As we dive into the heart of earnings season in the coming weeks, tech results will be scrutinized in far greater detail., Ipek Ozkardeskaya of Swissquote said in a commentary. Concerns around circular AI deals, leverage and delayed returns on investment remain front of mind for investors. These are compounded by rising electricity and metals costs, higher memory-chip prices, and the risk of supply disruptions, she said. BlackRock, the giant thats now overseeing more than $14 trillion in investments, rose 5.9% after reporting stronger profit and revenue than analysts expected.Encouraging reports on the U.S. economy contributed to the upbeat mood.One said fewer workers applied for unemployment benefits last week in an indication layoffs may be slowing. Other reports said manufacturing was significantly stronger in the mid-Atlantic region and in New York state than economists had forecast. The stronger-than-expected data on the U.S. economy helped stocks of smaller companies to lead the market. Their profits can be tied more closely to the strength of the U.S. economy than their bigger, multinational rivals, and the Russell 2000 index rose 0.9%.In other dealings early Friday, the U.S. dollar fell to 158.19 Japanese yen from 158.63 yen. The euro rose to $1.1614 from $1.1609. ELAINE KURTENBACH Based in Bangkok, Kurtenbach is the APs business editor for Asia, helping to improve and expand our coverage of regional economies, climate change and the transition toward carbon-free energy. She has been covering economic, social, environmental and political trends in China, Japan and Southeast Asia throughout her career. twitter mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Anam Petit, a former Justice Department employee, poses for a portrait in the Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Moriah Ratner)2026-01-16T05:03:36Z WASHINGTON (AP) Michael BenAry was driving one of his children to soccer practice on an October evening last year when he paused at a red light to check his work phone. He was in the middle of a counterterrorism prosecution so important that President Donald Trump highlighted it in his State of the Union address.BenAry said he was shocked to see his phone had been disabled. He found the explanation later in his personal email account, a letter informing him he had been fired.A veteran prosecutor, BenAry handled high-profile cases over two decades at the Justice Department, including the murder of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a suicide-bomb plot targeting the U.S. Capitol. Most recently he was leading the case arising from a deadly attack on American service members in Afghanistan.Yet the same credentials that enhanced BenArys resume spelled the undoing of his government career. His termination without explanation came hours after right-wing commentator Julie Kelly told hundreds of thousands of online followers that he had previously served as a senior counsel to Lisa Monaco, the No. 2 Justice Department official in the Biden administration. Kelly also suggested BenAry was part of the internal resistance to prosecuting former FBI Director James Comey, even though BenAry was never involved in the case. As Attorney General Pam Bondi approaches her first year on the job, the firings of attorneys like BenAry have defined her turbulent tenure. The terminations and a larger voluntary exodus of lawyers have erased centuries of combined experience and left the department with fewer career employees to act as a bulwark for the rule of law at a time when Trump is testing the limits of executive power by demanding prosecutions of his political enemies. Interviews by The Associated Press of more than a half-dozen fired employees offer a snapshot of the toll throughout the department. The departures include lawyers who prosecuted violent attacks on police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, environmental, civil rights and ethics enforcers, counterterrorism prosecutors, immigration judges and attorneys who defend administration policies. They continued this week, when several prosecutors in Minnesota moved to resign amid turmoil over an investigation into the shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. To lose people at that career level, people who otherwise intended to stay and now are either being discharged or themselves are walking away, is immensely damaging to the public interest, said Stuart Gerson, a senior official in the George H.W. Bush administration and acting attorney general early in the Clinton administration. Were losing really capable people, people who have never viewed themselves as political and attempted to do the right thing.Justice Connection, a network of department alumni, estimates that more than 230 lawyers, agents and other employees from across the department were fired last year apparently because of their work on cases they were assigned, past criticism of Trump or seemingly no reason. More than 6,400 employees are estimated to have left a department that at the end of 2025 had roughly 108,000, the group says. The Justice Department, for its part, says it has hired thousands of career attorneys over the last year. The Trump administration has characterized some of the fired and departed workers as out-of-step with its agenda.BenAry left with unfinished business, including the prosecution stemming from the Kabul airport bombing and the national security unit he led at the U.S. attorneys office for the Eastern District of Virginia.Left to pack his belongings, he posted a typed note near his door that functioned as a distress call, reminding colleagues they had sworn an oath to follow the facts without fear or favor and unhindered by political interference.But, he warned, In recent months, the political leadership of the Department have violated these principles, jeopardizing our national security and making Americans less safe. _____ Unparalleled in scale, scope and motivationSince its founding in 1870, the Justice Department has occupied elevated status in American democracy, sustained through transitions of power by reliance on facts, evidence and law. To be sure, there has always been a political component to the department, with lawyers appointed by the president.But even during turbulent times, when attorneys general have been pushed out by presidents or resigned rather than accede to White House demands as in the Watergate-era Saturday Night Massacre the departments rank-and-file have generally been insulated thanks to long-recognized civil service protections.This is completely unprecedented in both its scale and scope and underlying motivation, said Peter Keisler, a senior official in the George W. Bush Justice Department. In his first term, Trump pushed out one attorney general and accepted anothers resignation but the workforce remained largely intact. He returned to office seething over Biden-era prosecutions of him, vowing retribution.The firings began even before Bondi arrived last February. Prosecutors on special counsel Jack Smiths team that investigated Trump were terminated days after the inauguration, followed by prosecutors hired on temporary assignments for cases resulting from the 2021 Capitol insurrection.The people working on these cases were not political agents of any kind, said Aliya Khalidi, a Jan. 6 prosecutor who was fired. Its all people who just care about the rule of law.The firings have continued, at times surgical, at times random almost always without explanation. Adam Schleifer, a Los Angeles prosecutor targeted in a social media post by far-right activist Laura Loomer over past critical comments of Trump, was fired in March. The Justice Department the following month fired attorney Erez Reuveni, who conceded in court that Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported. Reuveni later accused the department of trying to mislead judges to execute deportations. Department officials deny the assertion.Two weeks after Maurene Comey completed a sex trafficking trial against Sean Diddy Combs, the New York prosecutor was fired, also without explanation. Like BenAry, she penned a pointed farewell, telling colleagues that fear is the tool of a tyrant. Her father former FBI Director James Comey, a frequent Trump target uttered those same words after being indicted in September in a case that has been dismissed. Among the most affected sections is the storied Civil Rights Division. A recent open letter of protest was signed by over 200 employees who left in 2025, with several supervisors recently giving notice of plans to depart. The Public Integrity Section, which prosecutes sensitive public corruption cases, has also been hollowed out by resignations. The Justice Department has disputed the accounts of some of those who have been fired or quit and has defended the termination of those who investigated Trump as consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government.This is the most efficient Department of Justice in American history, and our attorneys will continue to deliver measurable results for the American people, the department said in a statement. More than 3,400 career attorneys have been hired since Trump took office, the department says. The departures have caused backlogs and staff shortages, with senior leaders soliciting job applications. It has affected the departments daily business as well as efforts to fulfill Trumps desires to prosecute political opponents.Desperate for lawyers willing to file criminal cases against Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, the administration in September forced out the veteran U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, replacing him with Lindsey Halligan, a White House aide with no experience as a federal prosecutor. Halligan secured the indictments but the win was short-lived.One judge later identified grave missteps in how Halligan presented the Comey case to a grand jury. Another dismissed both prosecutions outright, calling Halligans appointment unlawful.Smith, the special counsel who investigated Trump but left before he could be fired, has himself lamented the losses. These are not partisans, he recently told lawmakers. They just want to do good work, he added, and I think when you lose that culture, you lose a lot._____Our dream was to be federal prosecutorsKhalidi joined the department in 2023 in a group of new prosecutors hired to help with the hundreds of cases stemming from the Capitol riot.Upon Trumps return to the White House, she watched cases she prosecuted get dismantled by Trumps sweeping clemency for all 1,500 defendants charged in the riot, including those who attacked police.Less than two weeks later, a Justice Department demand for the names of FBI agents involved in Jan. 6 investigations triggered rumors of potential mass firings. Worried about the agents she worked with, Khalidi spent the day checking in on them. But as she started preparing dinner one Friday evening, she received an email suggesting she had lost her own job.Attached was a memo from then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordering the firings of prosecutors like Khalidi whod been hired for temporary assignments but were moved into permanent roles after Trumps win, a maneuver Bove called subversive personnel actions by the previous administration. Neither the email nor memo identified the fired prosecutors, leaving them to guess.Khalidi grabbed a suitcase to collect family photos and other personal items she kept at work and rushed to the office, retreating with fellow shocked prosecutors to a bar where they received termination emails.The group of 15 fired attorneys later assembled to surrender their computers and phones, entering the same room where they gathered on their first day in 2023.For a lot of us, our dream was to be federal prosecutors, Khalidi said. And so we had happy memories of that room, of being excited on our first day. So it was just kind of surreal to be back there turning in our stuff.The news came for Anam Petit, an immigration judge, during a break between hearings. Appointed during the Biden administration, she said she felt uneasy when Trump won but also figured her position would probably be safe because immigration judges bear responsibility for issuing removal orders for those in the country illegally, a core presidential priority.Petit arrived on September 5 bracing for bad news because it was the Friday of the pay period before her two-year work anniversary, when her temporary appointment was poised to become permanent. Though she said she had received strong performance reviews and had already exceeded her case completion goal for the year, she had grown anxious as colleagues were fired amid an administration push to accelerate deportations.She was in the courtroom between hearings when she learned via email shed been fired. She left to text her husband, then returned to work. I just put my phone back in my pocket and I went into the courtroom to deliver my decision, with a very shaky voice and shaky hands, trying to center myself back to that decision to so that I could relay it, Petit said.Joseph Tirrell was concerned about job security as far back as last fall. As the departments chief ethics officer, he had affirmed that Smith, the special counsel, was entitled to a law firms free legal services, a decision he sensed might rile incoming leadership.But he remained in the position and over the ensuing months counseled Bondis staff in sometimes strained conversations on the propriety of accepting various gifts, including a cigar box from mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor.He was fired in July, just before a FIFA World Cup Final in New Jersey that Tirrell had said Bondi could not ethically accept a free invitation to. He was not terribly surprised, he says, when it was later reported that Bondi attended in Trumps box. The Justice Department maintains the invitation did not constitute a gift and that Bondis attendance in her capacity as a FIFA task force officer complied with ethics rules.Theres a great deal of fear there just because I was fired and just because so many others were summarily fired, Tirrell said. Are you going to get fired because you provided ethics advice? Are you going to get fired because you have a pride flag on your desk?_____Our country depends on youTrump was touting his administrations commitment to counterterrorism during his State of the Union address last March when he announced a success: the capture of an ISIS-K militant charged in a Kabul airport bombing that killed 13 American servicemembers during the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.Mohammad Sharifullah arrived the following day in the U.S., encountering BenAry in an Alexandria, Virginia, courtroom.BenAry spent the next several months working on the case, but on Oct. 1, he was fired. It was the apparent result, he told colleagues, of a social media post he said contained false information a reference to the one from Julie Kelly. The termination was so abrupt, he couldnt tell his colleagues where he had saved important filings and notes. Another prosecutor listed on the case, Comeys son-in-law, Troy Edwards, had resigned days earlier upon Comeys indictment. Once set for trial last month, the case has been postponed.In his farewell note, he observed that he was not alone, that in just a few short months career employees like himself had been removed from U.S. attorneys offices, the FBI and other critical parts of DOJ.While I am no longer your colleague, I ask that each of you continue to do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons, BenAry wrote. Follow the facts and the law. Stand up for what we all believe in our Constitution and the rule of law. Our country depends on you. ERIC TUCKER Tucker covers national security in Washington for The Associated Press, with a focus on the FBI and Justice Department. twitter mailto ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Richer covers the Justice Department and federal courts. She joined The AP in 2013 and is based in Washington. twitter

A picture of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is placed on a board as supporters gather outside Seoul Central District Court, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)2026-01-16T06:11:26Z SEOUL, South Korea (AP) A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday in the first verdict from eight criminal trials over the martial law debacle that forced him out of office and other allegations.Yoon was impeached, arrested and dismissed as president after his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024 triggered huge public protests calling for his ouster.The most significant criminal charge against him alleges that his martial law enforcement amounted to a rebellion, and the independent counsel has requested the death sentence in the case that is to be decided in a ruling next month.Yoon has maintained he didnt intend to place the country under military rule for an extended period, saying his decree was only meant to inform the people about the danger of the liberal-controlled parliament obstructing his agenda. But investigators have viewed Yoons decree as an attempt to bolster and prolong his rule, charging him with rebellion, abuse of power and other criminal offenses. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on Yoon gets 5-year prison term in 1st verdict from 8 trialsIn Fridays case, the Seoul Central District Court sentenced Yoon for defying attempts to detain him, fabricating the martial law proclamation, and sidestepping a legally mandated full Cabinet meeting and thus depriving some Cabinet members who were not convened of their due rights to deliberate on his decree.Judge Baek Dae-hyun said in the televised ruling that imposing a grave punishment was necessary because Yoon hasnt shown remorse and has only repeated hard-to-comprehend excuses. The judge also restoring legal systems damaged by Yoons action was necessary. Yoons defense team said they will appeal the ruling, which they believe was politicized and reflected the unliberal arguments by the independent counsel. Yoons defense team argued the ruling oversimplified the boundary between the exercise of the presidents constitutional powers and criminal liability.Prison sentences in the multiple, smaller trials Yoon faces would matter if he is spared the death penalty or life imprisonment at the rebellion trial. Yoon will likely avoid death sentence in rebellion trial Park SungBae, a lawyer who specializes in criminal law, said there is little chance the court would decide Yoon should face the death penalty in the rebellion case. He said the court will likely issue a life sentence or a sentence of 30 years or more in prison.South Korea has maintained a de facto moratorium on executions since 1997 and courts rarely hand down death sentences. Park said the court would take into account that Yoons decree didnt cause casualties and didnt last long, although Yoon hasnt shown genuine remorse for his action.South Korea has a history of pardoning former presidents who were jailed over diverse crimes in the name of promoting national unity. Those pardoned include strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who received the death penalty at a district court over his 1979 coup, the bloody 1980 crackdowns of pro-democracy protests that killed about 200 people, and other crimes.Some observers say Yoon will likely retain a defiant attitude in the ongoing trials to maintain his support base in the belief that he cannot avoid a lengthy sentence but could be pardoned in the future. Yoons stunt plunged South Korea into political turmoilOn the night of Dec. 3, 2024, Yoon abruptly declared martial law in a televised speech, saying he would eliminate anti-state forces and protect the constitutional democratic order. Yoon sent troops and police officers to encircle the National Assembly, but many apparently didnt aggressively cordon off the area, allowing enough lawmakers to get into an assembly hall to vote down Yoons decree.No major violence occurred, but Yoons stunt caused the biggest political crisis in South Korea and rattled its diplomacy and financial markets. For many, his decree, the first of its kind in more than four decades in South Korea, brought back harrowing memories of past dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s, when military-backed leaders used martial law and emergency measures to deploy soldiers and tanks on the streets to suppress demonstrations. After Yoons ouster, his liberal rival Lee Jae Myung became president via a snap election last June. After taking office, Lee appointed three independent counsels to look into allegations involving Yoon, his wife and associates.Yoons other trials deal with charges like ordering drone flights over North Korea to deliberately inflame animosities to look for a pretext to declare martial law. Other charges accuse Yoon of manipulating the investigation into a marines drowning in 2023 and receiving free opinion surveys from an election broker in return for a political favor. HYUNG-JIN KIM Hyung-jin is an Associated Press reporter in Seoul, South Korea. He reports on security, political and other general news on the Korean Peninsula. twitter mailto

The Trump administration is directing employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence of subversive or criminal activity.The new directive, part of a broader effort to increase scrutiny of research done with foreign partners, asks workers in the agencys research arm to use Google to check the backgrounds of all foreign nationals collaborating with its scientists. The names of flagged scientists are being sent to national security experts at the agency, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.At a meeting last month, USDA supervisors pushed back against the instructions, with one calling it dystopic and others expressing shock and confusion, according to an audio recording reviewed by ProPublica.The USDA frequently collaborates with scientists based at universities in the U.S. and abroad. Some agency workers told ProPublica they were uncomfortable with the new requirement because they felt it could put those scientists in the crosshairs of the administration. Students and postdocs are particularly vulnerable as many are in the U.S. on temporary visas and green cards, the employees said.Jennifer Jones, director for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, called the directive a throwback to McCarthyism that could encourage scientists to avoid working with the best and brightest researchers from around the world.Asking scientists to spy on and report on their fellow co-authors is a classic hallmark of authoritarianism, Jones said. The Union of Concerned Scientists is an organization that advocates for scientific integrity.Jones, who hadnt heard of the instructions until contacted by ProPublica, said she had never witnessed policies so extreme during prior administrations or in her former career as an academic scientist.The new policy applies to pending scientific publications co-authored by employees in the USDAs Agricultural Research Service, which conducts research on crop yields, invasive species, plant genetics and other agricultural issues.The USDA instructed employees to stop agency researchers from collaborating on or publishing papers with scientists from countries of concern, including China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela.But the agency is also vetting scientists from nations not considered countries of concern before deciding whether USDA researchers can publish papers with them. Employees are including the names of foreign co-authors from nations such as Canada and Germany on lists shared with the departments Office of Homeland Security, according to records reviewed by ProPublica. That office leads the USDAs security initiatives and includes a division that works with federal intelligence agencies. The records dont say what the office plans to do with the lists of names.Asked about the changes, the USDA sent a statement noting that in his first term, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum designed to strengthen protections of U.S.-funded research across the federal government against foreign government interference. USDA under the Biden Administration spent four years failing to implement this directive, the statement said. The agency said Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins last year rolled out long-needed changes within USDAs research enterprise, including a prohibition on authoring a publication with a foreign national from a country of concern.International research has been essential to the Agricultural Research Services work, according to a page of the USDA website last updated in 2024: From learning how to mitigate diseases before they reach the United States, to testing models and crops in diverse growing conditions, to accessing resources not available in the United States, cooperation with international partners provides solutions to current and future agricultural challenges.Still, the U.S. government has long been worried about agricultural researchers acting as spies, sometimes with good reason. In 2016, the Chinese scientist Mo Hailong was sentenced to three years in prison for conspiring to steal patented corn seeds. And in 2022, Xiang Haitao, admitted to stealing a trade secret from Monsanto.National security questions have also been raised about recent increases in foreign ownership of agricultural land. In 2022, Congress allocated money for a center to educate U.S. researchers about how to safeguard their data in international collaborations.Since Trump took office last year, foreign researchers have faced increased obstacles. In March, a French researcher traveling to a conference was denied entry to the U.S. after a search of his phone at the airport turned up messages critical of Trump. The National Institutes of Health blocked researchers from China, Russia and other countries of concern from accessing various biomedical databases last spring. And in August, the Department of Homeland Security proposed shortening the length of time foreign students could remain in the country.But the latest USDA instructions represent a significant escalation, casting suspicion on all researchers from outside the U.S. and asking agency staff to vet the foreign nationals they collaborate with. Its unclear if employees at other federal agencies have been given similar directions.The new USDA policy was announced internally in November and followed a July memo from Rollins that highlighted the national security risks of working with scientists who are not U.S. citizens.Foreign competitors benefit from USDA-funded projects, receiving loans that support overseas businesses, and grants that enable foreign competitors to undermine U.S. economic and strategic interests, Rollins wrote in the memo. Preventing this is the responsibility of every USDA employee. The memo called for the department to place America First by taking a number of steps, including scrutinizing and making lists of the agencys arrangements to work with foreign researchers and prohibiting USDA employees from participating in foreign programs to recruit scientists, malign or otherwise.Rollins, a lawyer who studied agricultural development, co-founded the pro-Trump America First Policy Institute before being tapped to head the agency.There have long been restrictions on collaborating with researchers from certain countries, such as Iran and China. But these new instructions create blanket bans on working with scientists from countries of concern.In a late November email to staff members of the Agricultural Research Service at one area office, a research leader instructed managers to immediately stop all research with scientists who come from or collaborate with institutions in countries of concern.The email also instructed employees to reject papers with foreign authors if they deal with sensitive subjects such as diversity or climate change. National security concerns were listed as another cause for rejection, with USDA research service employees instructed to ask if a foreigner could use the research against American farmers.In the audio recording of the December meeting, some employees expressed alarm about the instructions to investigate their fellow scientists. The part of figuring out if they are foreign by Googling is very dystopic, said one person at the meeting, which involved leadership from the Agricultural Research Service.Faced with questions about how to ascertain the citizenship of a co-author, another person at the meeting said researchers should do their best with a Google search, then put the name on the list and let Homeland Security do their behind the scenes search.Rollins July memo specifies that, within 60 days of receiving a list of current arrangements that involve foreign people or entities, the USDAs Office of Homeland Security along with its offices of Chief Scientist and General Counsel should decide which arrangements to terminate. The USDA laid off 70 employees from countries of concern last summer as a result of the policy change laid out in the memo, NPR reported.The USDA and Department of Homeland Security declined to answer questions about what happens to the foreign researchers flagged by the staff beyond potentially having their research papers rejected.The documents also suggested new guidance would be issued on Jan. 1, but the USDA employees ProPublica interviewed said that the vetting work was continuing and that they had not received any written updates. The staff spoke on the condition of anonymity because they werent authorized to talk publicly.Scientists are often evaluated based on their output of new scientific research. Delaying or denying publication of pending papers could derail a researchers career. Over the past 40 years, the number of international collaborations among scientists has increased across the board, according to Caroline Wagner, an emeritus professor of public policy at the Ohio State University. The more elite the researcher, the more likely theyre working at the international level, said Wagner, who has spent more than 25 years researching international collaboration in science and technology.The changes in how the USDA is approaching collaboration with foreign researchers, she said, will certainly reduce the novelty, the innovative nature of science and decrease these flows of knowledge that have been extremely productive for science over the last years.The post Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With appeared first on ProPublica.

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