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Hundreds of alleged gang members deported from U.S. despite court order — The Trump administration deported more than 200 alleged members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan prison gang, to El Salvador this weekend, multiple members of the Trump administration said on social media on Sunday.
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Trump administration deports hundreds of migrants, despite judge's order stopping removal — The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador despite a federal judge's order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting …
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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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Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua
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Tim Balk / New York Times:
LIVE March 15, 2025, 11:41 a.m. ET Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America's Parent
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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Washington Post, Townhall, Public Domain and The Barrington Hills Observer
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Court blocks deportations hours after Trump says he invoked Alien Enemies Act
Court blocks deportations hours after Trump says he invoked Alien Enemies Act
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Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later
Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later
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Javier C. Hernández / New York Times:
Trump Seeks More Sway in Picking Kennedy Center Honorees
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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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Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Judge blocks Trump from using wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport immigrants
Judge blocks Trump from using wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport immigrants
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Ximena Bustillo / NPR:
Federal judge blocks Trump's plan to target ‘alien enemies’ for deportation
Federal judge blocks Trump's plan to target ‘alien enemies’ for deportation
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Trump moves to close down Voice of America — Donald Trump has signed an order to strip back the federally funded news organisation Voice of America, accusing it of being “anti-Trump” and “radical”. — A White House statement said the order would “ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook …
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Trump signs order to gut staff at Voice of America and other US-funded media organizations
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Giorgio Leali / Politico:
Trump's move to silence pro-democracy media sparks outrage
Trump's move to silence pro-democracy media sparks outrage
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Pduskie / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
RFE/RL President: Defunding Would be “Massive Gift to America's Enemies”
Steve Herman / The Newsguy:
Requiem for the voice that carried a nation's conscience

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.
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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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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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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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Don't Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Columbia — Columbia University is now the epicenter of the American culture war. The Trump administration is targeting a former Columbia student — and the university itself — as a test case for its new authoritarian regime.
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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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Trump's Moves Are Boosting Stocks ... Overseas — 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 an age …

‘Maga since forever’: mercenary mogul Erik Prince pushes to privatize Trump deportation plans — Notorious Blackwater founder is lobbying allies in White House for private contractors to assist in mass deportations — Never miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.

White House seriously considering deal from Oracle to run TikTok — Any deal could face security concerns from China hawks in Congress. — The software company Oracle is accelerating talks with the White House on a deal to run TikTok, though significant concerns remain about what role …
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Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent says he's ‘not at all’ worried amid a stock market selloff — “I'm not worried about the markets,” Bessent said. “Over the long term, if we put good tax policy in place, deregulation and energy security, the markets will do great.”
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Tornadoes, wildfires and blinding dust sweep across US as massive storm leaves at least 33 dead — Violent tornadoes and high winds decimated homes, wiped out schools and toppled semitractor-trailers as a monster storm that also produced dust storms and icy conditions killed at least 33 people across the central and southern U.S.
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