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Construction workers in Pasadena, California, on Tuesday. The U.S. could lose millions of workers in the construction industry if President Donald Trump carries through on his campaign of mass deportations, with workers in agriculture, bars and restaurants also at risk.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Feb 12, 2025

Trump deportations send construction workers 'back to the shadows'

By Carey L. Biron

Such a response could worsen a labor shortage that already threatens to delay homebuilding and exacerbate a housing affordability crisis.

A coalition of mostly Democratic-led U.S. states filed a lawsuit to stop billionaire Elon Musk from accessing government systems used to process trillions of dollars in payments.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Feb 8, 2025

U.S. states sue to block Musk's DOGE from accessing payment systems

By Daniel Wiessner

The suit claims Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has no legal power to access the U.S. Department of Treasury systems.

The International Criminal Court building

WORLD / Crime & Legal / EXPLAINER

Feb 8, 2025

'Existential threat': What next for the ICC after U.S. sanctions?

By Richard CARTER

Experts say the sanctions announced by Trump will have a wide-reaching impact on the court.

The Supreme Court could be called upon in the coming weeks or months to act in a challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump's policies, depending on how quickly appeals move through the lower courts.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Feb 8, 2025

As U.S. Supreme Court girds for Trump cases, can it be an 'effective firewall'?

By John Kruzel

Since taking office on Jan. 20, Trump's views of presidential authority appear far less restrained than those of his White House predecessors.

Police cars are parked near the house of a suspect in a deadly shooting at an adult education center in Orebro, Sweden, on Tuesday.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Feb 5, 2025

At least 10 dead in Sweden’s ‘worst mass shooting,’ prime minister says

By Christina Anderson and Lynsey Chutel

Police say the shooter likely acted alone in the attack at an adult education campus in central Sweden, but the involvement of others has not been ruled out.

The current government under Prime Minister Keir Starmer has resisted calls for a national inquiry focused on the grooming gangs in Rotherham, and says it will conduct a series of local probes.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Feb 4, 2025

'Life's ruined' in U.K. town broken by grooming gangs

By James PHEBY

Rotherham, once a producer of some of the world's finest steel, is now the epicenter of a major U.K. scandal that has left the town angry, ashamed and needing answers.

An Egyptian doctor tests a patient for hepatitis C in Cairo in 2018.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Jan 27, 2025

Egypt’s malpractice law could speed up doctor exodus, medical professionals warn

By Mohamed Ezz

Medical professionals say the real issue is underfunding and inefficiency in Egypt's health care system and that the malpractice law could harm an already strained system.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Pedestrians commute through Shibuya Station in central Tokyo, an area that is almost never devoid of people.

As the rest of Japan shrinks, Tokyo grows

By Alex K.T. Martin

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