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Institute of Peace Retakes Headquarters From DOGE

Trump administration lacked authority to close the agency, judge found

(Newser) - The US Institute of Peace retook control of its headquarters Wednesday, two days after a federal judge said the firing of its board and employees by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency was illegal. The institute's acting president, George Moose, entered the organization's headquarters with private security...

Trump Administration Drops Local Police Investigations

Minneapolis, Louisville officials say they'll still make the changes agreed upon after notorious killings

(Newser) - The Trump administration announced Wednesday it is moving to drop lawsuits and abandon agreements intended to provide oversight of local police departments accused of abuses, including civil rights violations. The reversal applies to departments including those in Louisville and Minneapolis, NPR reports. Monday is the fifth anniversary of the death...

Noem Gets Habeas Corpus Definition Wrong

Homeland Security secretary claims it actually allows president to suspend rights

(Newser) - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the constitutional provision that allows people to legally challenge their detention by the government is actually a tool the Trump administration can use in its broader crackdown at the US-Mexico border, the AP reports. She called habeas corpus "a constitutional right that the...

First US Charter Returns Migrants Who Volunteered

Children born in the US are among those flown to Honduras, Colombia

(Newser) - The US on Monday sent 68 immigrants from Honduras and Colombia back to their countries, the first government-funded flight of what the Trump administration is calling voluntary deportations. In the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula, 38 Hondurans, including 19 children, disembarked from the charter flight carrying $1,000...

Vietnam, Under Tariff Pressure, OKs $1.5B Trump Development

Family company is also exploring building a skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City

(Newser) - Just before beginning negotiations to avert President Trump's imposition of a 46% tariff, Vietnam has approved a $1.5 billion plan by the Trump Organization to build golf courses, hotels, and other projects there. The US trade deficit with Vietnam hit $123 billion in 2024, partly driven by imports...

US Official Gives Reason for Vance Bypassing Israel

Vice president reportedly didn't want to appear to endorse new ground offensive in Gaza

(Newser) - After the Trump administration told Israel that Vice President JD Vance might stop by Tuesday on his way home from Rome, sparking preparations, the detour was scrapped over concerns about the new ground offensive in Gaza, a US official told Axios . Given that the US is advocating for a ceasefire...

Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' Advances After Changes

Bill passes key House committee in rare weekend vote

(Newser) - Republicans advanced their massive tax cut and border security package out of a key House committee during a rare Sunday night vote as deficit hawks who blocked the measure two days earlier reversed course after gaining commitments on the package's spending cuts, the AP reports. Speaker Mike Johnson met...

Cox, Charter Play to Trump in Announcing $34.5B Merger

FTC chairman has suggested companies shouldn't assume deals will be approved

(Newser) - A merger that would create one of the nation's biggest TV and internet providers will provide an early test case for President Trump's antitrust enforcers. Charter Communications and Cox Communications announced the deal on Friday in a statement tailored to reflect the president's rhetoric, the New York ...

Intimidation Tactic Against Judges: Pizza Deliveries
Judges: Pizza Deliveries
Are Meant to Intimidate
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May 17, 2025 1:03 PM CDT

Judges: Pizza Deliveries Are Meant to Intimidate

Disturbing prank appears to be a growing trend

(Newser) - Federal judges have been receiving hundreds of unwanted pizza deliveries since February, and no, it's not fueled by random acts of kindness. The judges say the pizza deliveries are threatening, and largely go to judges overseeing lawsuits that are challenging Trump administration policies, the Washington Post reports. Some have...

Critics on Nixed Ban for Gun Triggers: 'Lives Will Be Lost'

DOJ will now allow sale of forced-reset triggers, which allow semiautomatic rifles to fire more quickly

(Newser) - The Trump administration will allow the sale of forced-reset triggers, which make semiautomatic rifles fire more rapidly, with the federal government ending a long-standing ban as part of a settlement that also requires it to return seized devices. The agreement announced Friday by the Justice Department resolves a series of...

Supreme Court Maintains Block on Wartime Law Deportations

Decision keeps Trump administration's plan suspended while case is decided

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the Trump administration's appeal to let it quickly resume deportations of Venezuelans under an 18th-century wartime law. Over two dissenting votes, the justices acted on an emergency appeal from lawyers for Venezuelan men who have been accused of being gang members, a designation...

Administration Has New Line of Attack Against Harvard

Use of False Claims Act for fraud investigation is 'highly unusual'

(Newser) - The Trump administration has opened up a new line of attack against America's oldest university. The New York Times reports that the Justice Department notified Harvard University this week that it is using the False Claims Act to investigate whether its admissions process has been used to swindle the...

James Comey Investigated Over '8647' Post

GOP says former FBI director posted a call for Trump's assassination

(Newser) - Former FBI Director James Comey is being investigated by the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security over a now-deleted Instagram post, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday. The post showed seashells arranged on a beach to form the numbers "8647," NBC News reports. Republicans were...

Afrikaner Refugee Says Antisemitic Post Was From Meds

Charl Kleinhaus, set to be resettled in NY, called Jews 'untrustworthy'

(Newser) - The first group of white South Africans taking the Trump administration up on a controversial relocation program has arrived in the US, with the Afrikaners claiming they're facing violence and threats of land seizures back home. "We never expected this land expropriation thing to go so far,"...

Georgetown Researcher&#39;s Visa Revoked Over Palestine Link
Judge Orders Release
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May 14, 2025 6:00 PM CDT

Judge Orders Release of Georgetown Researcher

'There was no charge, there was nothing,' Badar Khan Suri says

(Newser) - A federal judge on Wednesday said that the federal government had made no effort to explain why a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University should continue to be held in an immigration facility, so she ordered him released immediately. Nor did the government provide evidence for why Badar Khan Suri, a...

EPA Rolls Back Biden-Era Limits on Forever Chemicals in Water

We'll 'work to provide common-sense flexibility in the form of additional time for compliance,' says Zeldin

(Newser) - The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it plans to weaken limits on some so-called forever chemicals in drinking water that were finalized last year, while maintaining standards for two common ones. The Biden administration set the first federal drinking water limits for PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, finding...

She's Researching Aging. ICE Has Her Behind Bars

Russian scientist Kseniia Petrova writes for the New York Times from a Louisiana detention center

(Newser) - When Kseniia Petrova fled Russia two years ago, she did so because she didn't feel she could freely and safely carry out her work as a scientist there, especially after she was arrested for taking part in a protest. She landed at Harvard Medical School, and her work on...

White House: Afghan Refugees Can Safely Go Home Now

Critics decry the end of Temporary Protected Status

(Newser) - The Trump administration on Monday did away with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Afghans now in the US, citing improvements in the country's security and economy. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said a review with "interagency partners" determined that Afghanistan no longer meets the standard...

Converting Jet Into 'Most Complicated Aircraft' May Cost Us

Aviation experts say turning Qatari 747 into Air Force One could cost $1B-plus, take years

(Newser) - President Trump continues to insist he'll accept a $400 million 747 offered by Qatar , but while the plane may be a "free" gift to his administration, taxpayers may not be keen on the bill they could face to convert the plane to Air Force One, as Trump intends....

Wisconsin Judge Indicted by Grand Jury in Immigration Case

Opposition says Trump administration is trying to make national example of Hannah Dugan

(Newser) - A federal grand jury indicted a Wisconsin judge Tuesday on charges she helped a man in the country illegally evade US immigration authorities looking to arrest him as he appeared before her in a local domestic abuse case, the AP reports. Prosecutors charged Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan in...

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