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Tropical drinks by the pool? Not so fast, says senator who visited Abrego Garcia in El Salvador
There was the pool furniture in the background. There were the tropical drinks, which looked to be margaritas garnished with cherries.
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JD Vance visits Vatican following papal rebuke over Trump's migrant crackdown
The Holy See has expressed alarm over Trump’s crackdown on migrants and cuts in foreign aid while insisting on peaceful resolutions to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
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Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th-century wartime law
The Supreme Court has blocked, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th-century wartime law. In a brief order early Saturday, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center “until further order of this court.” Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel ... -
What to know about the tensions between Iran and the US before their second round of talks
Iran and the United States will hold talks Saturday in Rome, their second round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
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Trump says Ukraine-Russia talks ‘coming to head' and insists ‘no one is playing' him
Trump says Ukraine-Russia talks ‘coming to head’ and insists that ‘no one is playing’ him in push to end war.
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Legal fight raging over possible imminent deportations to El Salvador
The Department of Homeland Security appeared Friday to be preparing to send a new group of Venezuelan men from the U.S. to El Salvador and its notorious CECOT prison, even as lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union scrambled in the courts to stop the administration from moving forward.
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Judge says detained Tufts student must be transferred to Vermont for hearing
A federal judge ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration authorities in Louisiana be brought to Vermont by May 1 for a hearing over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper.
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Maryland senator: Abrego Garcia was traumatized in El Salvador after mistaken deportation
Sen. Chris Van Hollen revealed new details about his meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who the Trump admin says was mistakenly deported.
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Maryland senator returns to US after meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador
The fight over Abrego Garcia is the latest partisan flashpoint as Democrats have struggled to break through and push back during the opening few months of Trump’s second time in office.
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Trump turns COVID information website into promotion page for lab leak theory
A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak.
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US-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida is released
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez was stopped while traveling with others in a vehicle from Georgia to a job in Florida. He was arrested under a law that a judge has temporarily blocked.
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Abrego Garcia case pulls Democrats into the immigration debate Trump wants to have
The Trump administration is pushing back, turning Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation into a test case for his crusade against illegal immigration.
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US strikes on oil port in Yemen kill 74 people, Houthi rebels say
Yemen’s Houthi rebels say the toll from U.S. airstrikes targeting oil port jumped to 74 people killed and 171 others wounded.
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Senator says Kilmar Abrego Garcia was traumatized after mistaken deportation
Sen. Chris Van Hollen revealed new details about his meeting this week with Kilmar Abrego GarciaFollow along for live updates.
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Rubio suggests US will drop Ukraine-Russia peace efforts if no progress within days
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. may be ready to “move on” from efforts for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal if there is no progress in the coming days.
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Trump administration seeks explosive expansion of nation's immigration detention system
The world’s largest immigration detention system is on the cusp of explosive growth as President Donald Trump pursues his signature campaign promise of mass deportations.
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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador
U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen met Thursday evening with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is being held in an El Salvador prison after wrongly being deported from Maryland.