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Protesters and security stand in front of Delaney Hall, a recently re-opened immigration detention center, in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Supreme Court to hear private prison company appeal in suit over immigration detainee $1-a-day wages

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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from a private prison company facing a lawsuit claiming immigration detainees were forced to work and paid a $1 a day in Colorado.

Employees work inside a franchise of "Sabor Venezolano," one of 18 businesses owned by Wilmer Escaray which employ scores of Venezuelan immigrants with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) who are now potentially exposed to deportation, in Doral, Fla., Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Judge blocks administration from revoking protected status for small subset of Venezuelans

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A federal judge says an estimated 5,000 Venezuelans granted temporary protected status can continue to work and live in the U.S. despite a Supreme Court ruling revoking protections.

FILE - Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau greets Afrikaner refugees from South Africa, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, file)
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More white South Africans arrive in the US under a new refugee program

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Officials and advocacy organizations say a second group of white South Africans has arrived in the United States under a refugee program announced by the Trump administration.

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Trump asks the Supreme Court to clear the way for federal downsizing plans

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President Donald Trump’s administration has renewed its request for the Supreme Court to clear the way for plans to downsize the federal workforce, while a lawsuit filed by labor unions and cities proceeds.

FILE - Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Supreme Court will consider reviving Republican challenge to Illinois law on mail ballots

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The Supreme Court has agreed to consider reviving a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows mail ballots to be counted if they are received up to two weeks after Election Day.

FILE - A semi-automatic rifle is displayed above shotguns at Rainier Arms, April 14, 2023, in Auburn, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
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Supreme Court rejects 2 gun rights cases, but assault weapons ban issue may be back soon

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A split Supreme Court has rejected a pair of gun rights cases, though one conservative justice predicts the court will soon consider whether assault weapons bans are constitutional.

President Donald Trump, right, walks toward the Oval Office as he returns to the White House with Bryson DeChambeau, winner of the 2024 U.S. Open, after playing golf, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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The Latest: Trump’s pledge to fix national debt faces skepticism from some Republicans

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President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax-break package.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks to journalists attending a weeklong seminar at the agency in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
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UN, Iran and Egypt meet to discuss Iran's nuclear program as enrichment continues

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Iranian, Egyptian and U.N. leaders have met to discuss Iran’s nuclear program after the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Iran is increasing its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., left, speak during a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)
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After talks with Zelenskyy and Macron, US senators warn: Putin 'is preparing for more war’

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Two U.S. senators are warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling on peace while preparing a fresh military offensive against Ukraine.

FILE - The Kaktovik Lagoon and the Brooks Range mountains of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are seen in Kaktovik, Alaska, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
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Trump officials are visiting Alaska to discuss a gas pipeline and oil drilling

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The Trump administration is sending three Cabinet members to Alaska this week as it pursues oil drilling in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and reinvigorating a natural gas project that’s languished for years.

The presidential vehicle carrying President Donald Trump leaves Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Saturday, May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Trump says he's withdrawing the nomination of Musk associate Jared Isaacman to lead NASA

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President Donald Trump says he's withdrawing the nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, an associate of Trump adviser Elon Musk, to lead NASA.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrives for the cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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New German leader Friedrich Merz will meet Trump at the White House next week

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Washington next week to meet U.S. President Donald Trump, with the war in Ukraine and trade tensions among the items on the agenda.

FILE - A person carries a sign in support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) workers, as they carry their personal belongings after retrieving them from the USAID's headquarters in Washington, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
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Appeals court keeps block on Trump administration's downsizing of the federal workforce

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An appeals court is keeping in place a court block on the Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce.

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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Answering your questions about President Trump's tariffs

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President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January determined to overturn decades of American policy and build a tariff wall around a U.S. economy that used to be pretty much wide open to foreign products.

Elon Musk attends a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Musk put a spotlight on federal spending, but cut less than he wanted

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Billionaire Elon Musk is expected to fall far short of even his most modest goal of shaving $150 billion from the federal deficit, having publicly opined last year that he could identify $2 trillion, roughly the size of the federal deficit.

Yurong "Luanna" Jiang, center, who delivered a speech at her Harvard University commencement, takes a selfie with her college friends Cynthia Luo, right, and Helen Ji, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Career pathways in the US dim for international students as Trump cracks down on visas

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Many international students come to the U.S. with hopes of gaining work experience, either before returning to their home countries or pursuing a longer-term career in the U.S. But the administration’s intensifying scrutiny of international students — and signs that formal career pathways for them may be closed off — are leading some to reconsider their plans.

FILE - President and CEO of PBS Paula Kerger speaks during the PBS Executive Session at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour at The Langham Huntington, Feb. 2, 2019, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
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PBS suing Trump administration over defunding, three days after NPR filed similar case

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The nation's public television service, PBS, has filed suit against President Donald Trump's executive order that it be stripped of federal funding.

Cain Oulahan, Ramon Morales Reyes' immigration attorney addresses the media Friday, May 30, 2025 in Milwaukee about the detention of his client Ramon Morales Reyes. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)
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Kristi Noem said an immigrant threatened to kill Trump. The story quickly fell apart

Read full article: Kristi Noem said an immigrant threatened to kill Trump. The story quickly fell apart

A claim by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that an immigrant threatened the life of President Donald Trump has begun to unravel.