The vote to take up legislation to rescind $9 billion in congressionally approved funds suggested that Republicans would bow to the president’s wishes in the simmering fight over spending powers.
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Trump Administration Resumes Deportation Flights, Sending Migrants to Eswatini
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe five migrants on the latest flight, all from different countries, were sent to Eswatini, a small nation in southern Africa.
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Democrats Broach Potential Walkout to Block Texas Redistricting
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesHakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, told Texas Democrats on a call on Tuesday that the moment required everyone “to do extraordinary things.”
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Dismissals at Justice Dept. Seek to Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesIn court filings and dismissal letters, the Justice Department’s political leadership claims sweeping authority to fire career law enforcement officials without cause.
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Judge Orders Release of Iranian Arrested in Louisiana After U.S. Bombed Iran
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesPouria Pourhosseinhendabad, a doctoral student studying mechanical engineering at Louisiana State University, was arrested along with his wife, in what his lawyers call “an unconstitutional ruse.”
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Appeals Court Blocks Trump Administration From Ending Deportation Protections for Afghans, for Now
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesA short, unsigned order by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia blocked the Trump administration’s move to terminate deportation protections until next week.
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Supreme Court Clears the Way for Trump’s Cuts to the Education Department
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesLawyers for the Trump administration had asked the justices to block a lower court order that directed officials to reinstate thousands of fired employees.
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Apollo-Soyuz 50th Anniversary: A Handshake in Orbit That Transformed the Space Race
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human spaceflight.
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Excerpts From The Times’s Interview With Biden on Clemency Decisions
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe former president said he “made every single one of those” decisions and that Republicans were questioning them because “they’ve done so badly” and wanted to shift the focus.
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Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions Recorded With Autopen
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesDonald J. Trump and his allies have begun investigations to support their claims that Joseph R. Biden Jr. was incapacitated and his staff conspired to take presidential actions in his …