WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court in the early hours of Saturday told the Trump administration not to take any action to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members currently based in Texas while litigation continues. The court did not grant or deny an application filed by lawyers for the detainees, but effectively …
Read More »In a city of stars, Los Angeles astronomy club makes sure to keep looking up
LOS ANGELES — While Los Angeles is home to the biggest stars in the world, a monthly get-together is proving that the city’s rich and famous have nothing on the universe. The Silverlake Star Party, hosted by the Los Angeles Astronomical Society, started with just a few telescopes in the …
Read More »Congress members pay an unofficial visit to Syria as U.S. mulls sanctions relief
DAMASCUS, Syria — Two Republican members of the U.S. Congress were in the Syrian capital Friday on an unofficial visit organized by a Syrian-American nonprofit, the first by U.S. legislators since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad in December. Also Friday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa in …
Read More »‘Yeah, keep running,’ the gunman said
Two Florida State University students recounted the horror of Thursday’s deadly campus shooting, with one survivor saying the gunman told students, “Keep running.” On Friday, the two people killed in the attack were identified by family members and their representatives as Robert Morales, an FSU dining coordinator and former Leon …
Read More »Judge orders detained Tufts student Rumeysa Öztürk to be transferred back to Vermont
A federal judge on Friday ordered that the Tufts University student who wrote an essay about Israel and the war in Gaza and is now fighting deportation must be transferred back to Vermont. Judge William K. Sessions III stayed his order for four days to give the government a chance …
Read More »Roommate of slain Idaho students will be allowed to testify that murder suspect had ‘bushy eyebrows’
A judge ruled Friday that one of the surviving roommates of the slain University of Idaho students can testify that the masked intruder she saw the night of her friends’ deaths had “bushy eyebrows.” Ada County Judge Steven Hippler’s decision Friday comes after a hearing intended to resolve several arguments …
Read More »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. On …
Read More »In the world’s largest wholesale market, American customers have dried up as tariffs hit
YIWU, China — Hammers, hats and hair clips. Toys, tech, socks, baseball caps and Christmas decorations. If it’s a cheap manufactured product, it may well have come from the world’s largest wholesale market in the Chinese city of Yiwu. With 75,000 suppliers spread across six buildings, it was once a …
Read More »What to know about the charges against Diddy
This is a free newsletter for Diddy on Trial newsletter subscribers. Sign up to get exclusive reporting and analysis throughout the trial. We’re now 17 days away from the start of jury selection in Diddy’s criminal trial, when this newsletter will take you inside a federal courtroom in downtown Manhattan with exclusive access to …
Read More »International travelers are dramatically reducing their cross-border visits to the U.S. Here’s why.
For international tourists, traveling to the United States is looking less inviting these days. The combination of President Donald Trump’s trade policies and hostile rhetoric toward much of the rest of the world are creating a chill in international travel to the U.S. That shift might have a significant economic …
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