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The Trump administration is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority to speed up the president’s mass deportation pledge in the coming days, according to four sources familiar with the discussions. Reporting with Priscilla Alvarez & Alayna Treene www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...

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José Daniel Simancas Rodríguez was one of 177 Venezuelans the US deported and sent to its naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba. He said his 15-day detention was unbearable and compared it to “hell.”

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Staff at USAID were instructed to clear out the “classified safes and personnel documents” on Tuesday – and destroy them. “Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break,” said the email (from CNN's @jmhansler.bsky.social)

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Lucas Hunter traveled to Colombia for what was supposed to be two-and-a-half-week long vacation to kite surf in late December. His sister hasn’t seen or heard from him for more than two months, after he was detained close to the border with Venezuela. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

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NEW in @51st.news: House Republicans just voted to defund D.C. police and schools. As part of a spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, they could force D.C. to slash $1.1 billion out of its budget, and no one understands really why. 51st.news/house-republ...

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and national security adviser Mike Waltz said that after Kyiv agreed to a full, temporary ceasefire, the onus is now on Russia to take steps to end the war it launched against Ukraine. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

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A vital, US-run monitoring system focused on spotting food crises before they turn into famines has gone dark after the Trump administration slashed foreign aid. FEWS NET's work to prevent hunger in Sudan, Somalia, Yemen & more has been stopped edition.cnn.com/2025/03/09/w...

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“We’re not going to be sitting in a room drawing lines on a map,” Rubio said yesterday, but the US aims to “get a general sense of what concessions are in the realm of the possible for (Ukraine) and what they would need in return” www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/p...

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The United States wants to hear what concessions Ukraine would be willing to make in negotiations to end the war with Russia, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said ahead of a high-stakes meeting between the two nations on Tuesday. www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/p...

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The Trump administration is canceling 83% of programs at the US Agency for International Development and intends to fold the remaining programs under the State Department, Rubio says in a post from his personal X account

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When ICE agents arrived at the campus building Saturday, they also threatened to arrest Khalil’s wife, an American citizen who is eight months pregnant, Greer said. The authorities declined to say why Khalil was being arrested, according to the attorney. apnews.com/article/colu...

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NEW (#Immigration) via @cnn.com's @jmhansler.bsky.social: "The US State Dept is 'undertaking a full review of all visa programs' a dept spokesperson confirmed amid reports of an impending new #TravelBan, & ... #Afghanistan could be among the countries included." www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/p...

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Top Trump appointee Pete Marocco did not give a firm answer on whether the administration would adhere to Tuesday’s Supreme Court foreign aid ruling, according to Republican and Democratic lawmakers who met with him. www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/p...

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Protesters outside of a closed-door hearing with Pete Marocco, the Trump appointee behind the sweeping cuts in US foreign assistance and at USAID.

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“You cannot pause a plane in mid-flight, fire the crew, without a catastrophe,” said Atul Gawande, a former head of USAID’s Global Health Bureau. “You can’t terminate just by shutting off … you have to be able to enable a proper transition, or people will be hurt.” www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/p...

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When the Trump administration abruptly terminated ten thousand foreign assistance contracts and grants last week, it ended funding for programs around the world – including those that had been granted waivers by the State Department to continue their lifesaving work.

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When the Trump admin abruptly terminated ten thousand foreign assistance contracts & grants last week, it ended funding for programs around the world – including those that had been granted waivers to continue their lifesaving work. www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/p...

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A European official called the Trump administration’s decision to pause military aid to Ukraine “petty and wrong."

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JUST IN: President Donald Trump is ordering a pause on military aid to Ukraine after a hostile Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. cnn.it/3XP3Ekf

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The acting head of USAID's global health bureau, who has been put on leave, warned in a 20 page memo that continued suspension of lifesaving programs could cause surges in diseases like malaria, Ebola and avian flu www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/p...

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A top USAID official was put on leave after a scathing memo detailing Trump political appointees' moves which blocked life-saving humanitarian work, which will “no doubt result in preventable death, destabilization, and threats to national security on a massive scale” www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/p...

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ICYMI: The Trump administration terminated more than 90% of USAID’s foreign aid awards, according to a Wednesday court filing. Approx. 5,800 USAID awards and 4,100 State Department awards were terminated, the filing said.

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US & Russian delegations will meet in Turkey on Thursday to discuss "operational issues" related to their embassies and consulates, per a State Department spokesperson. "Specific issues on the agenda include staffing levels, visas, diplomatic banking, & other operational issues" they say.

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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to pay foreign aid-related money owed to government contractors and nonprofit groups by Wednesday night, amid the legal fight over the freezing of USAID and State Department funds @cnn.com's Tierney Sneed reports

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The US joined Russia to vote against a Ukrainian & European-backed UN General Assembly resolution marking the anniversary of Russia's war against Ukraine. The resolution passed.

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Trump ratchets up his attacks on Zelensky in a shocking post calling the Ukrainian President a “dictator” and saying the US is “successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia.” Comes as US special envoy Keith Kellogg is in Ukraine

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Parroting Russian talking points, Trump blames Ukraine and Zelensky - not Russia - for the war in Ukraine "You've been there for three years. You should have ended it. You should have never started it."

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I sat down with Rubio, Waltz & Witkoff after their meeting with the Russians today - some highlights: Witkoff calls meeting “positive, upbeat, and constructive, everybody there to get to the right outcome.” “We couldn't have imagined a better result after this. It was very, very solid,” he says

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio- along with National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff - meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh ahead of tomorrow’s US-Russia meeting

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US now confirms - Secretary of State Rubio, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff will meet with a Russian delegation in Riyadh Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said.

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Secretary Rubio arrives in Riyadh ahead of expected US-Russia talks Tuesday www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/e...

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An unnamed American citizen was released from prison in Belarus, per top State Department officials. The American was part of a group of three people that also included a Radio Liberty journalist This is 2nd American released from Belarus under Trump admin. Anastassia Nuhfer was released in January

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