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Live updates: Van Hollen says Trump administration paid El Salvador $15 million to detain prisoners – The Washington Post

Live updates: Van Hollen says Trump administration paid El Salvador $15 million to detain prisoners  The Washington Post

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Trump moves to reclassify federal workers, making it easier to fire them

President Trump advanced his plans to make it easier to fire tens of thousands of federal workers. He said he would move forward with a rule, previously known as Schedule F, allowing agencies to quickly remove employees from critical positions.

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News Wrap: Negotiations to end Ukraine war stalled

In our news wrap Friday, the international effort to secure a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine appears to have stalled, Houthi rebels say U.S. airstrikes killed at least 74 people and injured more than 170 others and power has

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Detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont, judge rules

A Tufts University student from Turkey being held in Louisiana must be returned to New England by May 1 to determine whether she was illegally detained by immigration officials for co-writing an op-ed piece in the student newspaper, a federal

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Federal judge blocks Trump’s passport policy affecting transgender Americans

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.

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Brooks and Capehart on Trump’s faceoff with the courts

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join William Brangham to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump’s continued faceoff with the courts, if Republicans will begin pushing back against the president and

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The potential impacts of mining rare minerals from the ocean floor

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric cars and other electronics. But mining for them in the deep sea is a controversial and potentially destructive process. Special

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Protest letters from former Israeli soldiers reveal major rifts over ongoing war in Gaza

The growing campaign, which accuses the Israeli government of perpetuating the war for political reasons and failing to bring home the remaining hostages, has laid bare deep division and disillusionment over Israel’s fighting in Gaza.

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Abrego Garcia told visiting US senator he was no longer being held at notorious Salvadoran prison – AP News

Abrego Garcia told visiting US senator he was no longer being held at notorious Salvadoran prison  AP News Sen. Chris Van Hollen says Abrego Garcia described being ‘traumatized’ at CECOT, has been moved to different detention center  CNN Sen. Van Hollen pours

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Chris Van Hollen Meets With Abrego Garcia in El Salvador – The New York Times

Chris Van Hollen Meets With Abrego Garcia in El Salvador  The New York Times Sen. Chris Van Hollen says Abrego Garcia described being ‘traumatized’ at CECOT, has been moved to different detention center  CNN Wrongly deported Ábrego García traumatized at El Salvador’s

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