30 m. ago Judge says Georgetown student can be released from immigration detention as case proceeds

A federal judge has ordered that a Georgetown scholar from India be released from immigration detention after he was detained in the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign college students

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56 m. ago Judge orders release of Indian academic detained by Ice over pro

Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri had visa revoked and was arrested by immigration officials in MarchA Virginia federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Georgetown academic Badar Khan Suri from Ice detention during a hearing on Wednesday.Khan Suri was among several individuals legally studying in the US that have been targeted by the Trump administration for their pro-Palestinian activism. He has spent two months in detention. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago What Trump’s ‘palace in the sky’ gift from Qatar reveals | Moira Donegan

This kind of behavior from the Trump administration has gone on for so long that it is hard to rouse the media to cover itIt certainly looks as if policy is for sale in the Trump administration. After all, the president’s primary domestic policy deputy, Elon Musk, gained his position in the administration more or less by purchasing it: he is the richest man in the world, and the primary funder of Trump’s last presidential campaign, and it is seemingly by this virtue – does he have any others? – that Musk has been granted the authority to dismantle large swaths of the federal bureaucracy.This is something of a pattern for Donald Trump. In his first term, it became de rigueur for foreign dignitaries to stay at Trump’s hotel on trips to Washington, a practice long perceived to be a way of currying favor with the president by spending money at his businesses. Trump funneled money to his hotel business from domestic sources, too: when Secret Service agents were required to stay at Trump’...

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4 h. ago Dozens of Mexican cartel family members enter the US in ‘Trump administration deal’

Mexico’s security chief confirmed an independent report

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13 h. ago Newark problems and recent crashes put focus on air traffic controller shortage and aging equipment

The recent chronic delays and cancellations at New Jersey’s largest airport have highlighted the shortage of air traffic controllers and the aging equipment they use, which President Donald Trump's administration wants to replace

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13 h. ago The good news from Kyiv: with or without a ceasefire, Ukraine has a newfound confidence | Nathalie Tocci

Its European allies must commit to the long-haul – but they, as much as Zelenskyy, will reap the rewardsMy train rolled into Kyiv last week as Russian ballistic missiles and drones hit the city, killing a mother and her son. I had last been in Ukraine just over a year earlier. Back then, in April 2024, the mood was dark. Frustrated by delays in western military aid, people had a palpable fear of escalating Russian territorial gains, perhaps even a collapse of Ukraine’s frontline. Today, the international context is even more fraught. The Biden administration was frustratingly slow and scared, but few doubted that the US wanted to prevent Russia from prevailing. The same cannot be said of Donald Trump, whose ideological affinity with Vladimir Putin has thrown Europe, starting with Ukraine, off balance.But despite the Trump administration’s betrayals, I found the mood in Kyiv more confident than a year previously. After more than three years of war, Ukrainians are tired, but they are ...

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19 h. ago Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration

Mexico’s government has confirmed reports that 17 family members of the son of a former cartel leader crossed into the United States

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23 h. ago Venezuelans ‘barricaded’ doors and ‘threatened to take hostages’ in ICE detention, Trump team alleges

Administration calls on Supreme Court for permission to swiftly deport nearly 200 immigrants detained in Texas

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26 h. ago Trump administration piles on pressure on Harvard with $450m more in cuts

The latest cuts follow a $2.2bn freeze, bringing total federal penalties against Harvard to $2.65bnUS politics live – latest updatesEight federal agencies will terminate a further $450m in grants to Harvard University, the Trump administration announced on Tuesday, escalating its antagonization of the elite institution over what officials frame as inadequate responses to antisemitism on campus.The latest funding cuts come after the administration cancelled $2.2bn in federal funding to the university, bringing the total financial penalty to approximately $2.65bn. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Trump administration piles pressure on Harvard with $450m more in cuts

The latest cuts follow a $2.2bn freeze, bringing total federal penalties against Harvard to $2.65bnUS politics live – latest updatesEight federal agencies will terminate a further $450m in grants to Harvard University, the Trump administration announced on Tuesday, escalating its antagonization of the elite institution over what officials frame as inadequate responses to antisemitism on campus.The latest funding cuts come after the administration cancelled $2.2bn in federal funding to the university, bringing the total financial penalty to approximately $2.65bn. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Harvard loses another $450 million in grants in escalating battle with Trump administration

President Donald Trump's administration is cutting another $450 million in grants to Harvard University a day after the Ivy League school pushed back against government allegations it’s a hotbed of liberalism and antisemitism

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26 h. ago Trump administration terminates a further $450mn in grants to Harvard

Government has already cut $2.2bn in funding to university and US president threatened to scrap its tax-exempt status

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30 h. ago Donald Trump defied by church in refusing to resettle white South Africans

America's Episcopal Church is ending its refugee resettlement partnership with the federal government over the Trump administration’s “preferential treatment”

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30 h. ago Ireland hopes to entice academics as US becomes ‘a cold place for free thinkers’

Proposed scheme involves talent scouts offering attractive packages to tempt academics and lecturers from abroadIreland is to launch a scheme to poach academics and university lecturers from overseas on the basis that the Trump administration has made the US “a cold place for free thinkers and talented researchers”.The higher education minister, James Lawless, will on Tuesday seek cabinet approval for a “global talent initiative” to entice top international academics, including those seeking to leave the US or deterred from working there. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago Trump administration ends protections for Afghans in US by citing tourism under Taliban rule

Homeland Security is ending temporary legal status for more than 11,000 Afghans

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43 h. ago Kristi Noem faces angry protesters as she collects doctorate at South Dakota university

Protester calls Homeland Security secretary a ‘tool of the Trump administration’ who has been ‘implementing policies that go against the Constitution’

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45 h. ago First group of white South Africans arrive in US after Trump grants refugee status

Trump stirs controversy by calling Afrikaners, minority descended from Dutch colonists, victims of a ‘genocide’US politics live – latest updatesThe first group of white South Africans granted refugee status by Donald Trump’s administration has arrived in the US, stirring controversy in South Africa as the US president declared the Afrikaners victims of a “genocide”.The Afrikaners, a minority descended from mainly Dutch colonists, were met at Dulles international airport outside Washington DC by US deputy secretary of state, Christopher Landau, and deputy secretary of homeland security, Troy Edgar, with many given US flags to wave. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago First white South Africans arrive in US after Trump grants them refugee status

Trump stirs controversy by calling Afrikaners, minority descended from Dutch colonists, victims of a ‘genocide’The first group of white South Africans granted refugee status by Donald Trump’s administration has arrived in the US, stirring controversy in South Africa as the US president declared the Afrikaners victims of a “genocide”.The Afrikaners, a minority descended from mainly Dutch colonists, were met at Dulles international airport outside Washington DC by US deputy secretary of state, Christopher Landau, and deputy secretary of homeland security, Troy Edgar, with many given US flags to wave. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago PHOTO COLLECTION: Trump administration welcomes white South Africans as refugees

This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.

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45 h. ago Civil rights agency moves to fire judge fighting Trump directives

The federal agency tasked with protecting workers’ civil rights has moved to terminate a New York administrative judge who has resisted compliance with President Donald Trump’s directives for the agency

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