Man killed by semi after fleeing from immigration officials in Florida

Death of unidentified 28-year-old man marks third immigration enforcement-related death in one week

A person died during an encounter with federal immigration officials on Tuesday morning in Florida, a state highway patrol spokesperson confirmed, marking the third death in one week linked to immigration enforcement operations.

Officials with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which is a component of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had an “encounter” with four men in a vehicle in the parking lot of a convenience store along a busy road in St Augustine, Florida, the highway patrol spokesperson said. As the four men fled from the agents, one of them ran into the busy road and was struck by a semi truck. The person died at the scene.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/14/ice-shooting-death-florida

ICE agents kill man in Maine as senator says victim not target of arrest

Killing of man – identified by rights groups as 26-year-old Colombian – comes days after man killed by ICE in Texas

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A person was ⁠killed on Monday in a shooting involving US immigration officials in Maine, according to a statement attributed to a prominent state lawmaker, days ⁠after a man ⁠was ​killed by an immigration officer during a traffic stop in Texas.

The individual killed by federal agents was not the target of an immigration enforcement operation, Senator Angus King said on Monday afternoon on CNN, reversing an earlier statement at a press conference.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/13/maine-ice-shooting-death

Man fatally shot by ICE is mourned at vigil: ‘dedicated to the American dream’

Congressman says Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s ‘blood is on Trump’s hands’ after federal agents killed Texas builder

The builder got up every morning long before dawn, left home to pick up his construction crew and then headed out to work on yet another house somewhere across the sprawl of Houston.

Fourteen hours later, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo would return to the wife he’d met as a teenager in Mexico and the modest house he’d built for his family on the city’s east side.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/12/lorenzo-salgado-araujo-texas-killed-ice-vigil

How a viral seal called Neil caused mayhem in Australia

The five-year-old elephant seal attracted global attention during his recent time ashore in southern Tasmania.

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One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has failed to guarantee the party will cost all of its policies ahead of the election after the Coalition claimed the rightwing party’s agenda would destroy the budget and drive up interest rates.

The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, last week used a major speech to argue Hanson’s platform would cost more than $1tn over a decade, force the Reserve Bank to lift rates and even risk a sovereign debt crisis.

We will do it to the best of our ability.

I’m not going to give a sort of guarantee like that, Andrew, because that means I have the resources to do it.

And if I get the promise that we’re going to have the resources to do it, it certainly makes it a lot easier.

We’ll have to.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jul/12/anthony-albanese-pat-conroy-labor-liberal-angus-taylor-one-nation-ntwnfb

Graham Platner officially withdraws candidacy for US Senate in Maine

Paperwork ends Democratic campaign laden with scandals, including most recently accusations of sexual assault

Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, officially withdrew his candidacy on Friday afternoon, ending a campaign laden with scandals.

Maine’s secretary of state confirmed Platner had filed the paperwork to remove his name from the November ballot, two days after Platner publicly said he planned to exit the race.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/graham-platner-maine-senate-officially-withdraws

Arrest Made in Connection to Former U.K. Politician’s Murder #wanitaxigo