2 h. ago 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

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4 h. ago Wife of Kilmar Ábrego García speaks as White House defiant over US return

Jennifer Vasquez Sura relieved husband is alive but Trump officials say in mocking X post he is ‘never coming back’US politics live – latest updatesJennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the man the Trump administration has admitted it mistakenly deported, expressed relief to learn he is alive after a Democratic US senator managed to meet with him in El Salvador – as the White House posted on social media that he is “never coming back” to the US.“It was very overwhelming – the most important thing for me, my children, his mom, brothers was to see him alive, and we saw him alive,” Vasquez Sura told ABC in an interview. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Trump officials create uncertainty to evade court orders rather than comply

Recalcitrance appears to be product of Trump White House’s maximalist interpretation of executive powersFaced with a flurry of adverse court orders it would rather not follow, the Trump White House is increasingly deploying a strategy of claiming or even manufacturing its own uncertainty to dodge their effects without appearing to outright defy them.The Trump administration has faced several major legal setbacks in recent weeks, most notably in its efforts to deport undocumented immigrants without due process under the Alien Enemies Act or in spite of protective orders. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Scientists now say MILLIONS of planets could be teeming with life

Planet K2-18b is very unlikely to be a one-off in the vast universe - meaning many others that are similar likely exist too.

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33 h. ago Kilmar Ábrego García’s wife rejects Trump officials’ depictions of him as ‘violent’

Jennifer Vasquez Sura criticizes DHS’s attempt to smear her wrongly deported husband over 2021 civil protective orderWho is Kilmar Ábrego García, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador?The wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man unlawfully deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador, has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s attempt to smear his character, saying a temporary restraining order against him was “out of caution” and that “he is a loving partner and father” who is being denied justice.Jennifer Vasquez Sura said she “acted out of caution after a disagreement with Kilmar” when she got the civil protective order in 2021, according to a statement emailed to the Baltimore Sun. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Fundraising shows something clear: Democratic voters want fighters

Analysis: From progressives like AOC, Jasmine Crockett and Bernie Sanders to mainstream Democrats like Jon Ossoff and Mark Kelly, Democrats are sending their money to elected officials they think will aggressively oppose Trump. Eric Garcia reports

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33 h. ago Foreign students sue Trump officials over revoked visas as 1,000 affected

Actions by state department to terminate students’ legal status place them at risk of deportation and detentionUS politics live – latest updatesSeveral international students who have had their visas revoked in recent weeks have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration, arguing the government denied them due process when it suddenly took away their permission to be in the US.The actions by the federal government to terminate students’ legal status have left hundreds of scholars at risk of detention and deportation. Their schools range from private universities such as Harvard and Stanford to large public institutions such as the University of Maryland and Ohio State University, to some small liberal arts colleges. Continue reading...

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41 h. ago Trump official threatens Harvard foreign student admissions as more universities rally in support

Kristi Noem demands university’s records on foreign students’ ‘illegal’ activities while president threatens to strip it of tax-exempt statusDonald Trump has declared that Harvard University should no longer receive federal funds, calling it a “joke” that “teaches hate and stupidity”, while his administration said the pre-eminent US university could lose its ability to enrol foreign students.Harvard made headlines on Monday by becoming the first university to stand up against a series of onerous demands from the Trump administration, setting the stage for a showdown between the federal government and one of the US’s most prestigious institutions. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago How did Netflix’s The Diamond Heist robbers get caught? Movie

Netflix's The Diamond Heist tells the real-life story of an attempted £350 million robbery.

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54 h. ago UK officials label trade documents ‘secret’ to shield from US eyes amid Trump tariff war

Exclusive: civil servants beef up security rules for sensitive negotiating papers over fears posed by hostile US trade policyUK officials are tightening security when handling sensitive trade documents to prevent them from falling into US hands amid Donald Trump’s tariff war, the Guardian can reveal.In an indication of the strains on the “special relationship”, British civil servants have changed document-handling guidance, adding higher classifications to some trade negotiation documents in order to better shield them from American eyes, sources told the Guardian. Continue reading...

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55 h. ago US judge finds probable cause to hold Trump officials in contempt over alien act deportations

Federal judge opens proceedings over administration’s use of wartime act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang membersUS politics live – latest updatesA federal judge ruled on Wednesday that there was probable cause to hold Trump officials in contempt for violating his temporary injunction that barred the use of the Alien Enemies Act wartime power to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members.More details to come Continue reading...

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55 h. ago Trump officials face criminal contempt after defying judge’s orders in Alien Enemies Act case

Probable cause exists to hold administration in contempt for deliberately disregarding court orders to turn planes around, judge rules

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67 h. ago Trump officials blocking court testimony from Social Security head over program’s ‘death list’

The request for Dudek to appear came after reports claimed that thousands were being added to the agency’s ‘death master file’ as part of a push for immigrants to ‘self-deport’

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3 d. ago Trump officials won’t share evidence accusing deported Maryland father of ‘human trafficking’

Allegations that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was ‘involved in human trafficking’ first appeared publicly during a White House briefing

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3 d. ago Judge rebukes Trump officials for not securing return of wrongly deported man

Administration will have to share under oath how it’s trying to get Kilmar Ábrego García back to US, says district judgeA federal judge sharply rebuked the Trump administration and scolded officials on Tuesday for taking no steps to secure the return of a man wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, as the US supreme court had ordered in a contentious ruling last week.The US district judge Paula Xinis said that Donald Trump’s news conference with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, where the leaders joked that Kilmar Ábrego García would not be released, did not count as compliance. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump officials must testify after doing ‘nothing’ to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, judge rules

Lawyers for wrongfully deported Maryland father can depose officials over compliance with Supreme Court ruling to ‘facilitate’ his return to the United States

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3 d. ago Canadian universities report jump in US applicants amid Trump crackdown

UBC and others report spike in interest from US citizens as Trump withholds funds and revokes foreign student visasMore students living in the United States are applying to Canadian universities or expressing interest in studying north of the border as Donald Trump cuts federal funding to universities and revokes foreign student visas.Officials at the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Vancouver campus said the school reported a 27% jump in graduate applications as of 1 March from US citizens for programs starting in the 2025 academic year, compared with all of 2024. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump will officially skip the White House Correspondents' Dinner

President Donald Trump has officially said no to attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

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3 d. ago Trump officials cut billions in Harvard funds after university defies demands

Education department says $2.3bn in funds to be frozen after university rejects slew of demands as political ployThe US education department is freezing about $2.3bn in federal funds to Harvard University, the agency said on Monday.The announcement comes after the Ivy League school has decided to fight the White House’s demands that it crack down on antisemitism and alleged civil rights violations, including shutting down diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump officials stonewall Congress on queries on detained US citizens and green

Representatives concerned about American citizens being caught in immigration dragnet

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