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In our news wrap Friday, Hamas announced the names of four Israeli hostages it intends to release as part of the ceasefire deal, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israeli forces might not withdraw from Lebanon by the deadline set in

A Chicago school says immigration agents visited campus. Panic ensued.  The Washington Post Secret Service approached Hamline Elementary School in Back of the Yards, not Immigration and Customs Enforcement: CPD officials  ABC7 Chicago Chicago school district says it was wrong about ICE

Following Trump’s Monday freeze on foreign aid, a subsequent memo calls for for a stop-work order for current grants and contracts. (Image credit: Orlando Sierra/AFP via Getty Images)

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina got a major boost in its decades-long fight to become federally recognized. President Trump signed a memo directing the Interior Secretary to submit a plan for full federal recognition of the tribe. That status

North Dakota’s abortion ban will not be enforced while the state appeals an earlier decision that found it unconstitutional, the state’s highest court ruled Friday.

Monday marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. One of the youngest survivors was an eight-year-old Polish girl named Rutka. She moved to Canada after the war and took the name Rachel Hyams. Decades later,

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including the busy first week for the Trump administration, what President Trump has prioritized since reentering the White

State Department issues immediate, widespread pause on foreign aid  POLITICO Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide  The New York Times Marco Rubio orders halt to almost all U.S. foreign aid  NBC News US orders halt to virtually all foreign aid

Trump ramps up ICE arrests, alarming cities and immigrant communities  The Washington Post Hundreds of “illegal immigrant criminals” arrested, hundreds more flown out of U.S. by military, White House says  CBS News Military aircraft carries deportees from Tucson International Airport  Yahoo! Voices ‘Deportation

A look at changes at US health agencies in the 1st week of the new Trump administration  ABC News ‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel  Nature.com Key planks of US government grind to halt under hail