White House Takes Highly Unusual Step of Directly Firing Line Prosecutors
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White House Takes Highly Unusual Step of Directly Firing Line Prosecutors

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Two longtime career prosecutors have been suddenly fired by the White House, in what current and former Justice Department officials called an unusual and alarming exercise of presidential power. In recent days, the prosecutors, in Los Angeles and Memphis, were dismissed abruptly, notified…

Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say
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Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak to constrain his…

Timeline of Trump’s Deportation Flights, From Alien Enemies Act to Judge’s Order
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Timeline of Trump’s Deportation Flights, From Alien Enemies Act to Judge’s Order

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The federal judge’s ruling was clear: The Trump administration could not use an obscure wartime law from the 18th century to deport people without a hearing. If any planes were already in the air, the judge said, they should turn back. That did…

New Yorkers Protest as White House Defends Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia
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New Yorkers Protest as White House Defends Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As hundreds of demonstrators made their way through Lower Manhattan on Tuesday to protest the detention of a prominent pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University, the White House defended the arrest and rebuked the school for what it called lack of cooperation. The activist,…

Hearing for Columbia Student Mahmoud Khalil to Address Basic Constitutional Questions
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Hearing for Columbia Student Mahmoud Khalil to Address Basic Constitutional Questions

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A judge on Wednesday is expected to scrutinize the constitutional issues at play in the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate and permanent legal resident who was arrested over the weekend and taken to a Louisiana detention center. The judge,…

He’s the Face of a White House Press Corps Under Attack by Trump
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He’s the Face of a White House Press Corps Under Attack by Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Eugene Daniels didn’t plan on being the face of the White House press corps in the dawn of a new administration hostile to the news media. But because of a clause in the bylaws of the White House Correspondents’ Association, an 800-strong group…

Trudeau Thumbs Nose at Trump as Canadians Revel in Hockey Win
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Trudeau Thumbs Nose at Trump as Canadians Revel in Hockey Win

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines It took Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada just minutes to tap out his reaction to his nation’s victory over the United States in an international hockey championship final on Thursday in Boston. “You can’t have our country — and you can’t take…

Fact-Checking Claims About USAID Funding
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Fact-Checking Claims About USAID Funding

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Top officials in the Trump administration and allies in Congress, eager to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, have accused the agency of misusing taxpayer funds. But many of their claims were misleading or lacked context. The agency, long a target for…