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Our courageous and beloved Gaza colleague Hajar Harb is fighting stage four cancer. Our excellent colleague @reemakkad.bsky.social has organized this fundraiser to help Hajar and her family with expenses. Please read and consider. Just sharing helps. www.justgiving.com/page/hajarharb

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President Trump has issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR. This is the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country. Whatever changes this action brings, NPR’s commitment to reporting the news – without fear or favor – will never change.

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BREAKING: Judge Richard Myers rules that the N.C. Supreme Court's handling of the state supreme court election violated the U.S. Constitution. The win for Justice Riggs, a Democrat, is to be certified. Today's ruling stayed for 7 days for Judge Griffin, a Republican, to appeal "if he so chooses."

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Incredible reporting by the Washington Post on the Trump administration's hurried, lawless effort to carry out illegal renditions to El Salvador - to terrorize people. (Including how they violated court directives.) Take a moment to read the entire thing: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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JUST IN: Judge HOWELL rules forcefully in favor of Perkins Coie against Trump's punitive executive order, comparing him to a Shakespearean character who famously called to "kill all the lawyers" in order to amass power. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has barred the administation from removing migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, saying Trump's invocation of that law in the context of Tren de Aragua was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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NEW: Judge Xinis orders the resumption of expedited discovery in the Abrego Garcia case, setting a series of deadlines over the next two weeks. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Clay Jackson's story is picking up momentum. Jackson is the Texas attorney who was visited by two law enforcement officers at his home after giving some legal advices to an undocumented family. He was fired from his job with FNF after talking to me about the incident. Here's Judd Legum:

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🚨 WaPo Exclusive 🚨 The Postal Service's law enforcement arm is assisting Trump's mass deportation push, per docs and sources. USPS takes photos of the front and back of mail and packages. DHS really wants that info, me and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social report.

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Federal court says First Amendment bars government from arresting, deporting foreign students on basis of pro-Palestine advocacy. Important ruling from Judge Young just now in case brought by @aaup.bsky.social @mesa1966.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...

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Scott Pelley addressed the resignation of top producer Bill Owens, who had cited editorial interference by CBS’s parent company, Paramount. “None of our stories has been blocked, but Bill felt he lost the independence that honest journalism requires,” Pelley said.

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200 people detained by ICE because they made a wrong turn on the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. 200.

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BREAKING: The ACLU says the Trump administration has deported three U.S. citizen children.

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ICE deported 3 children who are U.S. CITIZENS to Honduras after holding them incommunicado, ACLU says. They are aged 2, 4, and 7. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

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WaPo Exec Editor Matt Murray on AG Bondi's new media guidelines: "The 1st Amendment is central to our democracy & an enshrined constitutional right for all Americans.Any govt effort to subpoena reporters and their records threatens those constitutional rights for the indpt press." shorturl.at/k9YbB

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NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Israeli military changes story, takes responsibility for attack on UN guest house in Gaza which killed 51 year old Bulgarian UN staffer Marin Marinov. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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New: We analyzed Trump's meme coin - At least 27 crypto wallets have picked up $100 million worth of $TRUMP coins since his team said the top holders would join him for an "intimate private dinner." Huge profit for Trump; "the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done" wapo.st/4iAatO1

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“The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children after the government posted their home address to social media.” 4/23/25 newrepublic.com/post/194289/...

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Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

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JUST IN: US judge blocks Trump's shutdown of government-funded radio broadcasts reut.rs/4jgn0qU

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"We've been left no choice but to this week suspend treatment for 650,000 malnourished women and children — simply because we've run out of commodities and funding," Zlatan Milisic, WFP Country Director in Ethiopia told a Geneva press briefing by video from Addis Ababa.

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My former WaPo colleagues continue their incredible run of breaking vital stories —subscribe! — the latest via @hannahnatanson.bsky.social @jeremyrroebuck.bsky.social and Rachel Siegel. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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@washingtonpost.com's @mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social and Suzan Haidamous on functioning of Lebanon's ceasefire mechanism and Lebanese army deployment in the country's south: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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SCOTUS just shut down the AEA Proclamation removals at 1:15 in the morning, and the 7 justice majority didn't even wait for Justice Alito to write his 2-justice dissent before they issued it.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has blocked the Trump administration from deporting foreign nationals under the Alien Enemies Act. Thomas, Alito dissent.

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NEW: RÜMEYSA ÖZTÜRK prevails on the hard jurisdictional questions and Judge Sessions orders her brought to Vermont for further proceedings. 74-page opinion filed at 5:06:51 pm. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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BREAKING: Judge orders return of Tufts student Rumyesa Ozturk from Louisiana to Vermont, sets bail hearing next month. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Visits to the U.S. in March fell nearly 12 percent year-over-year, government figures show, the first significant downturn since early in the pandemic. Analysts say Trump's visa revocations, detentions, deportations and tariffs are pushing tourists away www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Senator meets with man wrongly deported to El Salvador www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Committee to Project Journalists issues safety advisory for reporters traveling to the US:

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Photojournalist Fatma Hassouna, the subject of Sepideh Farsi’s PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK—selected by @assoacid.bsky.social to screen in Cannes—has been killed with nine members of her family in an Israeli airstrike. @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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News outlets large & small are launching grocery price trackers. cool stuff here from @bostonglobe.com @mainepublic.org @washingtonpost.com

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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

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NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause for contempt against the Trump administration: "The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Boasberg says the Trump administration’s decision to remove Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, despite his order, is “sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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CNN - Instead of restoring access to The Associated Press, as required by a federal judge, the Trump administration is removing the wire service position in the daily press corps rotation altogether. www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/m...

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On Jan. 9, 2018, an M4A1 carbine rifle left the Colt’s Manufacturing plant in Conn., bound for Afghanistan. Last month, it was recovered in the aftermath of a deadly train hijacking by militants in Pakistan, where U.S. weapons are fueling multiple insurgencies. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Post journalists found that hundreds of police officers sexually abused children while officials at all levels failed to protect kids, punish abusers or prevent more crimes. Their series “Abused by the Badge” has won NYU’s inaugural Peter F. Collier Award for Ethics in Journalism. wapo.st/42L2sRy

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Mohsen Mahdawi, Palestinian green card holder and Columbia student, detained by Ice

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🚨I have a new beat at The Washington Post, covering the Trump administration's foreign policy with a focus on the State Department. If you have something to share, reach out to me at [email protected] or mradamtaylor.01 on Signal 🚨

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SCOOP w/ @johnphudson.bsky.social : We got a look at Trump OMB proposals for cuts to State/USAID budget. Among them: - 48% total budget cut - Humanitarian assistance cut by 54%, Global health 55 % - Funding for UN, NATO cut - Fulbright eliminated www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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‘60 Minutes’ is the gold standard and a huge salute to the program’s correspondents, producers, staff and management for putting tremendous journalism on TV week after week amid all the nonsense.

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Days before ICE detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept. determined that the Trump administration had not produced evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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“Tracking official deportation numbers is difficult because the Trump administration stopped publishing the Office of Homeland Security Statistics’ monthly accounting of immigration enforcement activities.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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SCOOP: Trump admin overrode objections from Social Security staff to label ~6,000 living immigrants dead. A senior exec who objected was escorted out of the building, and earlier warnings were ignored. The immigrants include 13, 14 & 16yos who staff didn't find criminal records for: wapo.st/3RKSQQt

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A DOGE engineer deleted many federal officials’ permissions to post grant opportunities, without informing them that their permissions had been removed. Now DOGE is poised to have a final say over which federal grant opportunities are posted. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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A military judge has forbidden use of a 9/11 defendant's confession at his death-penalty trial, ruling the statements were the product of a campaign of torture and isolation by the CIA. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

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