43 h. ago Trump administration freezes billions of dollars in future grants to Harvard

President has targeted college over allegations of anti-Semitism on campus during pro-Palestinian protests

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56 h. ago Trump administration will pay illegal immigrants 1,000 dollars to go home

The Department of Homeland Security is also offering a financial stipend for travel assistance for illegal aliens to return to their home country.

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58 h. ago Trump administration will pay illegal immigrants $1,000 to go home

The Department of Homeland Security is also offering a financial stipend for travel assistance for illegal aliens to return to their home country.

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64 h. ago Ireland's billion dollar 'tax mirage' could collapse under Trump's administration

Ireland's billion dollar 'tax mirage' could collapse under Trump's administration  Newstalk

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5 d. ago Opinion: Can the US still call itself the 'land of the free' while targeting legal residents?

Our columnist laments the changing immigration approach by the Trump administration and says it’s a worrying development for many Irish Americans.

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2 w. ago Harvard University sues Trump administration to stop federal funding freeze

The US government froze more than $2.2bn in funding for Harvard after it defied demands by Trump to curb protests on campus.

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2 w. ago Harvard sues Trump administration to stop the freeze of €1.9 billion in grants

The White House has argued that universities allowed antisemitism to go unchecked at campus protests last year against Israel’s war in Gaza.

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2 w. ago JD Vance gets brief Easter audience with Pope Francis in Vatican

Meeting with US vice-president comes after pontiff recently criticised Trump administration’s immigration policies

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2 w. ago US supreme court blocks new deportations of Venezuelans under 18th century wartime law

Lawyers get temporary order to stop Trump administration using 1798 Act to send alleged gang members to El Salvador

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2 w. ago US Supreme Court blocks new deportations under 18th century wartime law

The court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Centre ‘until further order of this court’.

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2 w. ago US government claims Salvadorian man deported in 'error' was actually a gang member

The claims were made after weeks of pressure on the Trump administration to prove its contention that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13.

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3 w. ago US judge presses Trump administration on refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The hearing came a day after White House advisers said they lack the authority to bring back the Salvadoran national from his native country.

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3 w. ago Irish J1 visa students urged to be informed of potential risks of ‘activism’ in US

Trump administration says it will screen social media accounts of immigrants, visa applicants and foreign students for ‘anti-Semitic activity’

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3 w. ago Trump administration freezes about €2 billion in funding to Harvard

US government withholding money due to school’s decision to fight White House demands

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3 w. ago Trump and El Salvador making no moves to return man wrongly deported and sent to notorious prison

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has not been returned to the US despite court orders to do so.

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3 w. ago El Salvador president refuses to release wrongly deported man back to the US

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has not been returned to the US despite court orders to do so.

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3 w. ago Pharmaceuticals 'need to be made in America' says US Commerce Secretary after temporary tariff halt

The Trump Administration has not yet targeted the pharmaceutical sector with its wide-ranging tariffs.

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3 w. ago Irish visits to United States drop by 27% amid anxiety over Trump administration’s border controls

Travel operators report ‘intense uncertainty’ around US market

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3 w. ago US judge directs government to take all steps to return mistakenly deported man

US district judge Paula Xinis’ order comes after the Supreme Court said that the Trump administration must work to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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4 w. ago US Supreme Court allows deportations under 18th century wartime law

The Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act in March to deport Venezuelan migrants.

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