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The Trump administration has hired a men’s rights advocate, a promoter of conspiracy theories who has expressed hostility to immigrants, and a former immigration judge, who previously questioned whether an asylum applicant was actually persecuted because he didn’t appear to be “overtly gay,” to serve as immigration judges. The hires, first reported by The Washington Post on Monday, are part of the Trump administration’s campaign to fill immigration courts with judges who are supportive of the government’s mass deportation…

A court has heard how former AFL coach Mick Malthouse was stabbed in the chest with a screwdriver as he defended his family during an alleged attempted home invasion.The West Coast and Collingwood great, 72, fought a trio of alleged intruders with a piece of weightlifting equipment while wearing his pyjamas.Andrew Carroll, 50, Aysar Mashu, 38, and Joshua Di Cello, 36, were charged in relation to the alleged home invasion, which took place on September 4 last year.Victoria Police detective Tyler Sherlock alleged Di Cello…

The Government should consider reintroducing national service to protect Britain, the author of the defence review has suggested.Former Nato chief Lord Robertson said introducing a Swedish-style national service 'should certainly be on the agenda' due to the 'threats that we now face'.The Labour peer's comments are his latest major intervention in recent weeks after he accused his own Government of 'corrosive complacency' on defence spending.Last week a House of Lords committee that he chairs heaped pressure on the…

The Government has vowed to impose 'some form of age or functionality restrictions' on children aged under 16 using social media. Education Minister Olivia Bailey made the pledge on Monday as a consultation over the harms of social media on children continued.She promised that measures will be imposed regardless of the result of the concession, which came amid pressure from the House of Lords over the issue. Led by ex-Tory education minister Lord Nash, peers voted four times to press the Commons into accepting a…