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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 …
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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 …

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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132. Five Questions About Trump's Alien Enemy Act Proclamation — A quick take on some of the questions raised by President Trump's ... dubious invocation of a 1798 statute as a basis for arresting, detaining, and removing non-citizens with ties to Tren de Aragua.
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Trump Sends Hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador in Face of Judge's Order
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Trump administration touts deportations under Alien Enemies Act after a judge temporarily blocked its use
Trump administration touts deportations under Alien Enemies Act after a judge temporarily blocked its use
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U.S. deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, despite court order
U.S. deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, despite court order
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Judge blocks Trump after he invokes wartime Alien Enemies Act to speed up deportations
Judge blocks Trump after he invokes wartime Alien Enemies Act to speed up deportations
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Cornell Graduate Student Fearing Deportation Files Pre-emptive Lawsuit
Cornell Graduate Student Fearing Deportation Files Pre-emptive Lawsuit
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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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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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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.

Poll: Trump faces early challenges on the economy as a united GOP backs big change
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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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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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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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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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Trump moves to close down Voice of America
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Trump's move to silence pro-democracy media sparks outrage
Trump's move to silence pro-democracy media sparks outrage
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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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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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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 …

Nita Lowey, first woman to chair House appropriations panel, dies at 87 — A liberal Democrat from New York, she championed women's issues and rose to one of the most influential positions on Capitol Hill during 32 years in Congress. — Nita M. Lowey, a liberal New York Democrat who won …
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Nita M. Lowey, Tenacious New York Representative, Dies at 87
Nita M. Lowey, Tenacious New York Representative, Dies at 87
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‘Not getting the donations’: DC insider notes Kennedy Center decline after Trump takeover — A longtime insider who has been at the center of the Washington, D.C. social scene for decade claims Donald Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center is destroying the venerable institution as ticket sales dry up …
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What Authoritarianism Means — An audio version of this piece will be added by Monday morning. — It has been almost two months since Donald Trump's inauguration. It feels much longer. The speed and the scope of the assault on the constitutional order, on the foundations of democratic self-government have been unprecedented.

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives — Since scientists first began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap.

A Trump county worries Medicaid cuts could throw them back into opioid spiral — The president has said entitlement programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security will remain untouched, even as he pushes for a contraction of federal spending. — HARLAN, Ky. — Candice Fee …

If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders — One of the most alarming developments in the second Trump administration is agencies' apparent defiance of court orders barring them from implementing illegal executive orders. As agencies including the State Department …