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Key elements of the Trump administration's arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran do not hold up.
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Cuban exiles on a U.S.-registered speedboat attempted to enter Cuba undetected, but were confronted by border patrol in Cuban waters on Wednesday. According to the Cuban Interior Ministry, the Cuban nationals on the speedboat fired on the border agents who then returned fire — killing four and injuring six of the men. This comes as the Trump administration's blockade of fuel has triggered a severe humanitarian and economic crisis in Cuba, compounding the impact of the U.S. economic embargo in place since 1962. In response to the growing humanitarian crisis, activists are organizing a flotilla to deliver aid to the island. "We cannot allow us to go back to the days of gunboat diplomacy, where the U.S. thinks that it is allowed to violate sovereign nations, and it can have hegemony over the hemisphere," says CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin, who is taking part in the flotilla. "These are sovereign countries. We must leave them alone."
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Judge Zahid N. Quraishi said federal prosecutors in New Jersey had lost credibility on immigration issues. He's the latest federal judge to show impatience with the Trump administration.
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The president has sought to end the program, known as Temporary Protected Status, for various migrants as part of his mass deportation efforts.
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