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In this photo released by Senator Van Hollen's press office, Hollen, right, speaks with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland and deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, in a hotel restaurant in San Salvador, El Salvador, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Press Office Senator Van Hollen, via AP)
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Tropical drinks by the pool? Not so fast, says senator who visited Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

Read full article: Tropical drinks by the pool? Not so fast, says senator who visited Abrego Garcia in El Salvador
Students walk through campus on the first day of classes at the University of Texas at Arlington on Aug. 27, 2021. A federal court ordered immigration officials to restore the legal status of two people from India who were UT-Arlington students and are still living in Texas. They are among the hundreds of international students whose legal immigration status was revoked in recent weeks.
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Court orders immigration officials to restore legal status of three people who came to Texas on student visas

Read full article: Court orders immigration officials to restore legal status of three people who came to Texas on student visas

The three former students went to UT-Arlington and UT-Dallas. While they have prevailed in court so far, many other international students’ education futures remain uncertain.

Demonstrators on Transgender Day of Visibility rally at the Pennsylvania Capitol, Monday, March 31, 2025, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)
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Judge blocks Trump administration from passport changes affecting some transgender Americans

Read full article: Judge blocks Trump administration from passport changes affecting some transgender Americans

A federal judge has partially blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.

FILE - New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a news conference outside Manhattan federal court in New York on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
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Trump official urges criminal probe of New York attorney general, who calls request 'retaliation'

Read full article: Trump official urges criminal probe of New York attorney general, who calls request 'retaliation'

A top housing official in the Trump administration has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate New York Attorney General Letitia James over a real estate transaction.

President Donald Trump arrives at a swearing in ceremony for Dr. Mehmet Oz to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, April 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Trump moves to invoke Schedule F to make it easier to fire some federal workers

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President Donald Trump is moving to reclassify some federal workers to make it easier to fire them.

FILE - IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley arrives to testify on the Hunter Biden investigation during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing, Dec. 5, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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IRS whistleblower on Hunter Biden is out as acting commissioner just days after getting the job

Read full article: IRS whistleblower on Hunter Biden is out as acting commissioner just days after getting the job

An IRS agent who testified publicly about investigations into Hunter Biden's taxes and was promoted to be acting IRS commissioner is out of the job just days after he got it.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, stands with Dr. Ben Edwards, right, outside the Reinlander Mennonite Church in Seminole, Texas, on Sunday, April 6, 2025, after a second measles death. (AP Photo/Annie Rice, File)
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Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer

Read full article: Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer

A video shows a Texas doctor, who has been treating children in a measles outbreak, with a measles rash on his face in a clinic while caring for patients a week before he met with Health Secretary Robert F.

President Donald Trump holds a document with notes about Kilmar Abrego Garcia as he speaks with reporters during a swearing in ceremony for Dr. Mehmet Oz to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, April 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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US senator returns from El Salvador trip, says Abrego Garcia case is about far more than one man

Read full article: US senator returns from El Salvador trip, says Abrego Garcia case is about far more than one man

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen says Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported, told him he has been moved from the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT to a detention center with better conditions.

President Donald Trump speaks as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., from left, Dr. Mehmet Oz and Oz's wife Lisa Oz listen during a swearing in ceremony for Mehmet oz to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, April 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Trump turns a COVID information website into a promotion page for the lab leak theory

Read full article: Trump turns a COVID information website into a promotion page for the lab leak theory

A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he wants the Texas Senate to approve the House version of the school voucher bill, a step that would speed the legislation to the governor for his signature.
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Dan Patrick endorses Texas House’s voucher plan, clearing path to final approval

Read full article: Dan Patrick endorses Texas House’s voucher plan, clearing path to final approval

The lieutenant governor proposes that the Texas Senate adopt the House bill, which would eliminate a negotiation over the two versions and cement the victory for supporters.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Washington, as Patty Morin, mother of Rachel Morin listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Judge won’t take further steps to enforce his order in AP case against Trump administration

Read full article: Judge won’t take further steps to enforce his order in AP case against Trump administration

A federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to stop blocking The Associated Press from presidential events has refused to take immediate steps to get White House officials to comply.

FILE - A security officer works inside of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) building headquarters Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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Judge pauses Trump administration's plans for mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Read full article: Judge pauses Trump administration's plans for mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire nearly everyone at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been paused by a federal judge, who says she's “deeply concerned” about the plan.

FILE - Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., speaks to campaign workers, June 5, 1968, as his wife Ethel, left, and California campaign manager and speaker of the California Assembly, Jesse Unruh, look on, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
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10,000 pages of records about Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination are released, on Trump's order

Read full article: 10,000 pages of records about Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination are released, on Trump's order

About 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F.

FILE - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers gives the annual State of the State address, Jan. 22, 2025, at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
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Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto, court says

Read full article: Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto, court says

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the Democratic governor legally used the state’s uniquely powerful veto to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years.

FILE - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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FDA hiring contractors to replace fired staff who supported safety inspections

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The Food and Drug Administration is scrambling to hire contractors to replace fired employees who helped plan thousands of food and drug safety inspections throughout the world.

President Donald Trump speaks as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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The Latest: Class action lawsuit challenges Trump’s crackdown on student visas

Read full article: The Latest: Class action lawsuit challenges Trump’s crackdown on student visas

A federal judge who blocked Donald Trump’s administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ruled that the agency can’t go forward immediately with plans to fire hundreds of employees.

FILE - Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds arrives on stage with Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis before he speaks to supporters during a caucus night party, Jan. 15, 2024, in West Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
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Surprise open governor's seat in Iowa signals competitive GOP primary, glimmer of hope for Democrats

Read full article: Surprise open governor's seat in Iowa signals competitive GOP primary, glimmer of hope for Democrats

Iowa looked a lot different in 2010, when Republican Kim Reynolds was first elected to statewide office.

This combo shows Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, pictured in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 and Steve Witkoff, right, White House special envoy, pictured in Washington, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photos Stringer, Mark Schiefelbein)
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Iran-US talks over Tehran's nuclear program hinge on a billionaire and a seasoned diplomat

Read full article: Iran-US talks over Tehran's nuclear program hinge on a billionaire and a seasoned diplomat

As far as biographies go, the two men in charge of the delicate negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program couldn’t be more different.

In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Friday, April 18, 2025, the Russian BM-21 "Grad" self-propelled 122 mm multiple rocket launcher fires towards Ukrainian positions in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
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Trump says Ukraine-Russia talks 'coming to a head' and 'no one is playing' him in push to end war

Read full article: Trump says Ukraine-Russia talks 'coming to a head' and 'no one is playing' him in push to end war

President Donald Trump says negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are “coming to a head” and insists that neither side is “playing” him in his push to end the grinding war.

The relatives of Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. who were flown to a prison in El Salvador by the U.S. government who alleged they were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, protest outside of the United Nations building in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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US intelligence contradicts Trump claims linking gang to Venezuelan government to speed deportations

Read full article: US intelligence contradicts Trump claims linking gang to Venezuelan government to speed deportations

U.S. officials say a new intelligence assessment finds no coordination between the Tren de Aragua gang and the Venezuelan government.

FILE - Demonstrators gather outside of the Edward A. Garmatz United States District Courthouse in Baltimore, on Friday, March 14, 2025, before a hearing regarding the Department of Government Efficiency's access to Social Security data. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)
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Federal judge in Baltimore temporarily limits DOGE access to Social Security data

Read full article: Federal judge in Baltimore temporarily limits DOGE access to Social Security data

A federal judge has imposed new restrictions on the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to Social Security systems that hold personal data on millions of Americans.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen speaks to the press in La Libertad, El Salvador, where he arrived regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland and deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
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The Abrego Garcia case pulls Democrats into the immigration debate Trump wants to have

Read full article: The Abrego Garcia case pulls Democrats into the immigration debate Trump wants to have

For Democrats, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case is about fundamental American ideals, including due process, following court orders and preventing government overreach.

U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters stands on their vehicles, as they withdraw from two neighbourhoods in Syria's northern city of Aleppo as part of a deal with the Syrian central government, in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
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US to withdraw 600 troops from Syria, leaving fewer than 1,000 to help counter IS militants

Read full article: US to withdraw 600 troops from Syria, leaving fewer than 1,000 to help counter IS militants

The U.S. will withdraw about 600 troops from Syria, leaving fewer than 1,000 to work with Kurdish allies to counter the Islamic State group.

Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Jerome Powell speaks during an event hosted by the Economic Club of Chicago, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
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Trump's attacks on Powell threaten the Fed's independence. Here's why it matters

Read full article: Trump's attacks on Powell threaten the Fed's independence. Here's why it matters

Donald Trump has stepped up his attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the same time that the Supreme Court is considering a case that could make it easier for the president to fire him.

Patty Morin, center, mother of Rachel Morin, speaks during a briefing with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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AP and the Trump administration argue over presidential access before appeals judges

Read full article: AP and the Trump administration argue over presidential access before appeals judges

The Associated Press and Trump administration were back in a Washington court as part of a high-stakes battle over who can control which journalists can question the president.

This image provided by Commonwealth Media Services shows damage after a fire at the Pennsylvania governors mansion while Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family slept inside on Sunday, April 13, 2025, in Harrisburg, Pa. (Commonwealth Media Services via AP)
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Pennsylvania intruder faced little resistance as Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family slept

Read full article: Pennsylvania intruder faced little resistance as Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family slept

The arsonist who broke into the Pennsylvania governor’s residence while Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family slept upstairs faced little resistance as he smashed windows, ignited Molotov cocktails and crawled inside.