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Australian Immigration Minister Alex Hawke has used his discretionary ministerial power to cancel tennis star Novak Djokovic’s visa on the grounds of health and good order, saying it was in the public interest to do so. “This decision followed orders by the Federal Circuit and Family Court on 10 January 2022, quashing a prior cancellation decision on procedural fairness grounds,” Hawke said in a statement on Jan. 14. "In making this decision, I carefully considered information provided to me by the Department of Home Affairs, the Australian Border Force and Mr Djokovic. “The Morrison Government is firmly committed to protecting...

A woman who was bounced out of Madison Square Garden during President Bush’s nationally televised speech at the Republican National Convention has deep ties to the Democratic party’s left coast. The woman, Jodie Evans, one of the founders of the women’s antiwar group Codepink, was removed from the Republican convention on Thursday after standing up during the president's speech and showing anti-Bush and antiwar slogans on a pink slip she wore Ms. Evans managed Jerry Brown’s unsuccessful 1992 presidential campaign, and is a close colleague of ex-California Governor Gray Davis and longtime friend of chief Democratic hit man Bob Mulholland