12 h. ago Roberts rejects Trump’s call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary display of conflict between the executive and judiciary branches, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rejected calls for impeaching federal judges shortly after President Donald Trump demanded the removal of a judge who ruled against his deportation plans. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment […]

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36 h. ago Brown University professor deported to Lebanon despite judge’s order

Dr. Rasha Alawieh's cousin filed a motion that customs officials 'willfully' disobeyed a U.S. District Judge's order

Society

41 h. ago Trump deports hundreds of immigrants as judge order bars removals

U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg issued an order Saturday temporarily blocking the deportations, but lawyers told him there were already two planes with immigrants in the air.

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60 h. ago 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 Venezuelan gang members, officials said Sunday. Flights were in the air at the time of the ruling. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg issued an order Saturday evening […]

Politics

3 d. ago Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Saturday barred the administration of President Donald Trump from deportations under an 18th century law that Trump invoked just hours earlier asserting the United States was being invaded by a Venezuelan gang and that he had new powers to remove its members from the country. James E. Boasberg, […]

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3 d. ago Judge Halts Trump’s Wartime Powers Plan to Speed Deportations

President Donald Trump has invoked a centuries-old immigration law to ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants amid signs of frustration within the administration over the pace of efforts to deliver on one of his top priorities.

Culture

1 week ago Trump casts doubt on NATO solidarity, despite it aiding the US after Sept. 11

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday expressed uncertainty that NATO would come to the U.S.’s defense if the country were attacked, though the alliance did just that after Sept. 11 — the only time in its history that the defense guarantee has been invoked. Trump also suggested that the U.S. might abandon its […]

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3 w. ago Lorne Gunter: Donald Trump's delusional trade policies were debunked 200 years ago

Stick around folks, in this column I’m going to explain 18th-century trade policy, with an emphasis on the theories of English economist David Ricardo (1772-1823). It’s gonna be awesome. American President Donald Trump is an 18th-century mercantilist, an adherent of trade theories that were debunked 200 years ago. Basically, Trump thinks that to preserve domestic […]

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