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Exclusive: How the White House defied a judge's order to turn back deportation flights — The Trump administration says it ignored a Saturday court order to turn around two planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members because the flights were over international waters and therefore the ruling didn't apply …
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Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped — The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime …


US deports hundreds of Venezuelans despite court order — A plane carrying more than 200 Venezuelans deported by the US has landed in El Salvador, hours after a US judge ordered the Trump administration not to do so. — El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, wrote on social media …
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Trump sends more than 200 alleged gang members to prison in El Salvador — The administration won't identify those moved — or say whether the Alien Enemies Act, which briefly sped up some deportations, played any role. — Over a weekend when President Donald Trump secretly invoked …
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Trump administration ignores judge's order to turn deportation planes around: Sources
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White House Denies Violating Judge's Order in Deporting Venezuelans
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Trump thanks El Salvador for taking in alleged gang members deported from US: ‘We will not forget’
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Trump administration touts deportations under Alien Enemies Act after a judge temporarily blocked its use
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Cornell Graduate Student Fearing Deportation Files Pre-emptive Lawsuit
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Doctor and Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge's Order — Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order. — A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University's medical school …
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Judge demands Trump admin. explain why doctor was deported despite order — A federal judge on Sunday ordered the Trump administration to respond to allegations that U.S. immigration enforcement “willfully disobeyed” an order halting the deportation of a Rhode Island doctor.
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With Deportations, Trump Steps Closer to Showdown With Judicial Branch
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Democratic Party hits new polling low, while its voters want to fight Trump harder — Unlike in Trump's first term, Democratic voters say 2-to-1 they want party leaders to fight rather than compromise, even at the risk of not getting things done, per the NBC News poll.
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Chuck Schumer on Democrats, Antisemitism and His Shutdown Retreat — Philip Montgomery for The New York Times — It has been quite a week for Chuck Schumer. When I spoke to the Senate minority leader on Monday, we talked about a lot of things: the direction of his party …
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Chris Murphy: ‘If We Continue to Engage in Business as Usual, This Democracy Could Be Gone’
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Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants — National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.
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Trump tapped Kari Lake to run VOA. Then he dismantled it. — Lake had big plans to transform the outlet into a powerful “weapon” to fight an “information war.” Instead, the president has essentially shut it down. — Just now — During his first term, Donald Trump accused Voice …
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As Voice of America Goes Dark, Some Broadcasts Are Replaced by Music — President Trump's executive order on Friday calling for the dismantling of the federal agency that oversees the broadcaster is part of a wider campaign to weaken the news media. — For more than 80 years …
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Nervous about Trump, international tourists scrap their U.S. travel plans — The Trump administration's hard stance on tariffs and other international policies has some travelers rethinking where they vacation. — International travelers concerned about President Donald Trump's trade policies …
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Another Columbia student targeted by ICE says she wasn't involved in protests on the night of her arrest — Days after federal immigration agents showed up to Ranjani Srinivasan's apartment - prompting her to leave the country out of fear she would be taken into custody …
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Don't Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Columbia
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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 …
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Top broadband official exits Commerce Department with sharp Musk warning — “Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Evan Feinman warned.
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Featured Comment — Bill Clinton enacted his Reinventing Government package of streamlining restructuring (REIGO) in 1993, when he still held legislative majorities. It was passed by a margin of ONE VOTE. Al Gore was the one who actually drafted the plan in writing …


Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website — Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address — The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war …


Nita M. Lowey, Tenacious New York Representative, Dies at 87 — A Democrat, she represented Westchester County for three decades and became the first woman to lead the powerful House Appropriations Committee. — Nita M. Lowey, who represented a congressional district based in Westchester County …
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Nita Lowey, first woman to chair House appropriations panel, dies at 87
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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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132. Five Questions About Trump's Alien Enemy Act Proclamation — [An edited version of this post also appears at Just Security.] — Welcome back to “One First,” an (increasingly frequent) newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to all of us.
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Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funding cuts — As an infant, Connor Phillips was born three months premature with cerebral palsy. The science that saved his life was the inspiration that led to his role studying brain processes as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health.