TheUS supreme courton Monday paved the way for theTrump administrationto resume deporting migrants to countries they are not from, including to conflict-ridden places such as South Sudan.
In a brief, unsigned order, the court’s conservative supermajority paused the ruling by a Boston-based federal judge who said immigrants deserved a “meaningful opportunity” to bring claims that they would face the risk of torture, persecution or even death if removed to certain countries that haveagreedto take people deported from the US.
The court ruling was handed down asDonald Trumpclaimed Israel and Iran had agreed to a “Complete and Total CEASEFIRE” and that in the future the conflict would be known as the “THE 12 DAY WAR”.
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The US supreme court cleared the way on Monday for Donald Trump’s administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show harms they could face, handing him another victory in his aggressive pursuit of mass deportations.
The justices lifted a judicial order that required the government to give migrants set for deportation to so-called “third countries” a “meaningful opportunity” to tell officials they are at risk of torture at their new destination, while a legal challenge plays out.
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Donald Trump claimed that Israel and Iran had negotiated a ceasefire, halting a two-week war that has killed hundreds in tit-for-tat strikes by Israeli warplanes and Iranian ballistic missiles.
The ceasefire was set to begin late on Monday, Trump said, with Iran halting its attacks first and thenIsraelset to cease offensive operations in the coming hours.
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A group of 12 House Democratic military veterans have thrown their weight behind efforts to constrain Donald Trump’s military authority, announcing they will support a War Powers Act resolution in response to the US president’s go ahead for airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
The veterans – some of whom served in Iraq and Afghanistan – were strongly critical of Trump’s decision to launch what they called “preventive airstrikes” without US congressional approval, drawing explicit parallels to the run-up to some of America’s longest recent wars.
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Advocates areurgingSenateRepublicansto reject a proposal to cut billions from American healthcare to extend tax breaks that primarily benefit the wealthy and corporations. The proposal would make historic cuts toMedicaid, the public health insurance program for low-income and disabled people that covers 71 million Americans, and is the Senate version of the “big beautiful bill” act, which contains most ofDonald Trump’s legislative agenda.
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TheWhatsAppmessaging service has been banned on all USHouse of Representativesdevices, according to a memo sent to House staff on Monday.
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Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City, has drawn level withAndrew Cuomoin the city’s primary, according to a new poll, as voters brave record-breaking temperatures to cast their ballots.
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New York governor Kathy Hochul announced plansto build a nuclear-power plant,the first major US plant in over 15 years.
Three years after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade,the number of abortions performed in the US is still rising –including in some statesthat ban the procedure.
Afederal judge on Monday blockedDonald Trump’s administrationfrom implementing his plan to bar foreign nationalsfrom entering the United States to study atHarvard University.
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