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Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua — BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated …
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Court blocks deportations hours after Trump says he invoked Alien Enemies Act — A little before 7:00 p.m. Saturday, a federal judge issued an order temporarily stopping deportations set in motion by President Donald Trump hours earlier when he announced that he had invoked a law last used to justify Japanese internment camps.


Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later — A federal judge barred the Trump administration Saturday from carrying out deportations under a sweeping 18th century law that the president invoked hours earlier to speed removal of Venezuelan gang members from the United States.
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LIVE March 15, 2025, 11:41 a.m. ET Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America's Parent
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Townhall, Public Domain, Washington Post and The Barrington Hills Observer

Judge blocks Trump after he invokes wartime Alien Enemies Act to speed up deportations
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Wall Street Journal, DNyuz and Associated Press

Judge blocks Trump from using wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport immigrants
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Bloomberg, Associated Press, MPR News, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post


Voice of America staff put on leave after Trump orders cuts — Employees at Voice of America were placed on paid leave on Saturday and funding for two U.S. news services that broadcast to authoritarian regimes was slashed, one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order gutting …
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Trump signs order to gut staff at Voice of America and other US-funded media organizations — President Donald Trump's administration on Saturday began making deep cuts to Voice of America and other government-run, pro-democracy programming, with the organization's director saying all VOA employees have been put on leave.
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Requiem for the voice that carried a nation's conscience — I am speaking here in my personal capacity and not as a representative of any agency or organization, past, present or future... My colleagues and our broadcasts, devoted to telling America's story to the world — honestly …

‘Bloody Saturday’ at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks
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Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside — WASHINGTON, D.C.—Yesterday, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer surrendered leverage in the Senate, paving the way for a GOP funding bill that jeopardizes critical programs and accelerates the efforts of Trump, Musk and congressional Republicans …
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Washington Examiner
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Liberal group calls for Schumer to step down as minority leader after spending bill vote

Chuck Schumer on Democrats, Antisemitism and His Shutdown Retreat
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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution) — By Kate Andrias, Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Jamal Greene, Olatunde Johnson, Jeremy Kessler, Gillian Metzger, and David Pozen — On Thursday, the president of Columbia University received a remarkable letter …
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New York Times


Trump orders strikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and issues new warning — President Donald Trump said he ordered a series of airstrikes on the Houthi-held areas in Yemen on Saturday, promising to use “overwhelming lethal force” until the Iran-backed rebels cease their attacks on shipping along a vital maritime corridor.
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Trump Orders Attacks on Militant Sites in Yemen and Issues a Warning to Iran
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Trump launches strikes against Yemen's Houthis and warns Iran
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Trade War Retaliation Will Hit Trump Voters Hardest — The counties where tariffs could hit jobs, by presidential vote winner — Source: New York Times analysis of data from Lightcast and the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. Note: Vote results are for the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
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Brown Medicine doctor deported despite federal court order. What we know. — A federal court order that would have halted the immediate deportation of a Rhode Island doctor was issued Friday evening while the doctor's departing plane sat on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport, said a family friend and colleague.
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The Boston Globe


CNN Poll: Democratic Party's favorability drops to a record low — The Democratic Party's favorability rating among Americans stands at a record low, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, fueled in part by dimming views from its own frustrated supporters.


President Trump Is Making Foreign Stocks Great Again — For years, the S&P 500 soared above the stock indexes of other countries. But since Trump's inauguration, it has fallen 6 percent and is now trailing major markets in Europe and China. — President Trump has promised to create …


RFE/RL President: Defunding Would be “Massive Gift to America's Enemies” — RFE/RL President: Defunding Would be “Massive Gift to America's Enemies” — Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was informed today by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) that its federal grant agreement …


Were companies ever serious about DEI? — The buzzwords “diversity, equity, and inclusion” are everywhere right now, but you can't be blamed if you don't quite have a handle on what they mean. — The origins of DEI date back to the civil rights era — but recently “DEI” …


The devastating impact of Trump's slashing foreign aid, in 3 charts — In about three short months, the Trump administration took a wrecking ball to foreign aid, threatening millions of lives and livelihoods around the world. After initially pausing all US foreign aid spending for 90 days …


He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center. — Bradley Bartell and Camila Muñoz had a familiar small-town love story, before they collided with immigration politics. — They met through mutual friends, had a first date at the local steakhouse …


Michael Waltz, Trump's National Security Adviser, Is Taking Fire From Both Sides — Mr. Waltz has worked hard to burnish his credentials among the president's supporters, in the process dismaying his former associates while not convincing his new ones. — Stephen K. Bannon …


Trump Seeks More Sway in Picking Kennedy Center Honorees — The president, who recently had himself installed as the center's chairman, has called a meeting of its board to approve changes that would give him more input in the process. — When President Trump was criticized by some of the artists …