1 week ago Trump wants Supreme Court to allow for gutting of education department

The department oversees about 100,000 public and 34,000 private schools in the United States, though a majority of public school funding comes from state and local governments.

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1 week ago Speech from OPEC head to kick off Global Energy Show in Calgary

CALGARY — More than 30,000 people from 100 countries are expected to descend on the white-collar heart of Canada’s oilpatch next week for the Global Energy Show, which is to kick off with a keynote address from the head of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. OPEC secretary-general Haitham al-Ghais is set to deliver […]

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2 w. ago U.S. Supreme Court lets Trump end humanitarian parole for 500K migrants

The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for more than 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

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2 w. ago Supreme Court lets Trump end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants for now, pushing the total number of people who could be newly exposed to deportation to nearly 1 million.  The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole […]

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3 w. ago Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block watchdog access to DOGE documents

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to block court orders requiring Elon Musk ‘s Department of Government Efficiency to turn over documents about its operations to a government watchdog group. The Justice Department’s latest emergency appeal to the high court concerns whether DOGE, which has been central to President […]

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3 w. ago US business owners are concerned about Venezuelan employees with temporary status

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — As a business owner in the largest Venezuelan community in the United States, Wilmer Escaray feels is stressed and in shock. He is unsure what steps he needs to take after the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to strip legal protections from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants. Escaray owns […]

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4 w. ago Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protections from some Venezuelans; deportations could follow

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation. The court’s order, with only one noted dissent, puts on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that […]

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