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May 23, 2025
The La Grange Area League of Women Voters will explore how removing Graue Mill Dam has affected Salt Creek in DuPage County.
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May 23, 2025
Officials say Stateville's budget has stayed relatively level because of an increase in the population of a reception center on the to Joliet-area campus.
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May 23, 2025
High caution readings were found on 23 days last summer with only four corresponding with sewer system overflows, water quality testing shows.
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May 23, 2025
The South Side sailing community is helping foster interest in a sport once reserved for the wealthy with program at Mount Carmel.
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May 23, 2025
On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death during a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
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May 23, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 23, according to the Tribune's archives.
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May 22, 2025
Illinois lawmakers advanced legislation that would require "trauma-informed" training for law enforcement on sexual assault cases.
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May 22, 2025
Eight months after a Cook County judge found Trump Tower repeatedly violated clean water laws, the president's business operators agreed Thursday to pay $4.8 million to settle lawsuits alleging the skyscraper's cooling system killed untold numbers of fish in the Chicago River. The glass-and-steel tower, emblazoned with a sign spelling "TRUMP" in letters more than […]
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May 22, 2025
After a bitter loss to President Donald Trump, former Vice President Kamala Harris is thinking hard about her next job.
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May 22, 2025
Illinois lawmakers advanced a measure that would eliminate mandatory road tests for older drivers under 87.
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May 22, 2025
The clerk's office discovered a Declaration of Intention form signed by Pope Leo XIV's paternal grandfather, the first step in becoming a U.S. citizen.
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May 22, 2025
The morning after the shooting of two members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night, university protests in Chicago against the Israel-Hamas war continued.
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May 22, 2025
The provision is a result of a last-minute change to the bill before its passage out of the House early Thursday.
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May 22, 2025
Between a barrage of executive orders, foreign trips and norm-shattering proclamations, President Donald Trump has also been busy raking in cash.
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May 22, 2025
A new Chicago Teachers Union report released Thursday criticizes the lack of oversight of the district's over 100 charter schools.
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May 22, 2025
The Memorial Day travel rush is on. Americans are expected to get away in record numbers over the long weekend even as politics and the nation's aging air traffic system rattle the U.S. travel industry.
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May 22, 2025
One male died and another was injured in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon in Pleasant Township, police said.
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May 22, 2025
Federal authorities say 41-year-old Awad Odeh, of Palos Hills, swindled investors of at least $3.6 million.
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May 22, 2025
Orland Park expects loss of more than $500,000 for some summer concerts at Centennial Park West, relocates Taste of Orland festival.
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May 22, 2025
Jurors started deliberating Thursday for a Hammond man accused of shooting, hogtying and beating a co-worker.
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May 22, 2025
The Trump administration is seeking to end an immigration policy cornerstone that since the 1990s has offered protections to child migrants in federal custody, a move that will be challenged by advocates, according to a court filing Thursday.
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May 22, 2025
A judge in California blocked the Trump administration Thursday from terminating the legal status of international students nationwide while a court case challenging previous terminations is pending.
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May 22, 2025
Government advisers are meeting Thursday to decide if COVID-19 vaccines need updating to improve protection this fall and winter — even as a new Trump administration policy has thrown into question who may be eligible for shots.
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May 22, 2025
The Trump administration revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country.
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May 22, 2025
Authorities were investigating why a private plane crashed early Thursday in San Diego, killing two people, damaging homes and igniting cars in the U.S. military's largest housing neighborhood.
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May 22, 2025
A judge handed down the maximum 10.5-year sentence to a Gary man Thursday for burning a Griffith woman's overdosed body in a Gary abandoned building.
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May 22, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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May 22, 2025
A second man has been identified in a Hammond double homicide early Sunday.
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May 22, 2025
Cheryl Moore, 68, of Chicago, was charged with battery and child endangerment after allegedly assaulting a student at Meadowview.
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May 22, 2025
The two people shot and killed outside a Jewish museum in Washington were young staffers at the Israeli Embassy who were soon to be engaged. The suspect shouted "Free Palestine" as he was being arrested.
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May 22, 2025
Rapper Kid Cudi testified Thursday that Sean "Diddy" Combs broke into his Hollywood Hills home in 2011 after finding out he was dating Combs' ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, and that someone set fire to his car weeks later.
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May 22, 2025
The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed Thursday.
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May 22, 2025
Federal agents appeared to have arrested multiple people inside Chicago's immigration court on Wednesday, lawyers told the Tribune.
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May 22, 2025
Illinois State Police have arrested Steven Brady, of Homer Glen, who is charged with threatening state Rep. Nicole La Ha.
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May 22, 2025
A teen was charged Thursday as a juvenile in the May 7 shooting of a 14-year-old boy on the South Side in the Douglas neighborhood.
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May 22, 2025
A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump's executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.
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May 22, 2025
A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump's executive order to dismantle the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs. The administration said it would challenge the ruling.
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May 22, 2025
Chicago beaches are set to open for the summer season for swimming and boating on May 23 until Labor Day.
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May 22, 2025
Chicago beaches are set to open for the Summer season for swimming and boating on Friday, May 23 until Labor Day, officials said Wednesday. The Office of Emergency Management and Communication, the Chicago Fire Department, the Chicago police and the Chicago Park District are asking residents and visitors to be mindful of safety rules while […]
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May 22, 2025
Pepper and Blaze are back in Waukegan for the second year as breeding adults and the pair is already incubating a full clutch of four eggs.
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May 22, 2025
The endangered Great Lakes piping plover population is federally protected.
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May 22, 2025
A suspect in the fatal shootings of two members of the Israeli Embassy near the Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., has been identified as Elias Rodriguez of Chicago.
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May 22, 2025
A suspect in the fatal shootings of two members of the Israeli Embassy near the Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., has been identified as Elias Rodriguez of Chicago.
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May 22, 2025
Multiple people on board a private plane that crashed into a San Diego neighborhood early Thursday are dead, authorities said.
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May 22, 2025
A small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood during foggy weather early Thursday, setting about 15 homes on fire as well as vehicles, and forcing evacuations along several blocks, authorities said.
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May 22, 2025
Across the United States in immigration courts from New York to Seattle this week, Homeland Security officials are ramping up enforcement actions in what appears to be a coordinated dragnet testing out new legal levers deployed by President Donald Trump's administration to carry out mass arrests.
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May 22, 2025
Iran and the United States will hold talks Friday in Rome, their fifth round of negotiations over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program.
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May 22, 2025
Iran's top diplomat warned Thursday that his country would take "special measures in defense of our nuclear facilities" if Israel continues to threaten Tehran's atomic sites, raising the stakes further ahead of a new round of talks with the United States.
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May 22, 2025
Bond yields inched higher and Wall Street flipped from small gains to losses before the opening bell Thursday after rising U.S. debt sank markets on the previous day.
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May 22, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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May 22, 2025
House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with Speaker Mike Johnson defying the skeptics and unifying his ranks.
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May 22, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 22, according to the Tribune's archives.
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May 22, 2025
On May 22, 1992, after a reign lasting nearly 30 years, Johnny Carson hosted his final episode of NBC's "Tonight Show." (Jay Leno took over as host three days later.)
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May 21, 2025
The proposal has widespread support from the public, lawmakers in both parties and employers who believe such a law will bring relief to the working class. But many critics say that it would come with an enormous cost to the government while doing little to help the workers who need it most.
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May 21, 2025
An alleged victim testified Wednesday that he barely knew co-worker Aric Fulton for a month before he went to his place in Hammond for his 50th birthday party.
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May 21, 2025
Jim Irsay, the Indianapolis Colts owner who leveraged the popularity of Peyton Manning into a new stadium and a Super Bowl title, died Wednesday at age 65.
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May 21, 2025
Taevion Norris' senior year was interrupted due to heart failure, but that did not stop him from graduating on time at Lurie Children's Hospital.
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May 21, 2025
Dolton Mayor Jason House is negotiating to buy Pope Leo XIV's childhood home, but Village Board has yet to discuss such action.
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May 21, 2025
Police have found a bust of Jim Morrison that was stolen nearly four decades ago from the Paris grave that has long been a place of pilgrimage for fans of the legendary Doors singer and poet.
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May 21, 2025
Police have found a bust of Jim Morrison that was stolen nearly four decades ago from the Paris grave that has long been a place of pilgrimage for fans of the legendary Doors singer and poet.
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May 21, 2025
President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to forcefully confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing the country of failing to address Trump's baseless claim of the systematic killing of white farmers.
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May 21, 2025
A federal judge has ruled that U.S. officials must retain custody and control of migrants apparently removed to South Sudan in case he orders their removals were unlawful.
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May 21, 2025
Valparaiso University officials said Wednesday that they expect enrollment to tick up when the academic year begins anew in August.
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May 21, 2025
The ordinance faced a scheduled vote Wednesday, but Alds. Jason Ervin and Andre Vasquez used a procedural maneuver to delay its consideration.
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May 21, 2025
Supporters of Nyota Figgs' claim the records lawsuit represents a targeted political attack from Calumet City Mayor Thaddeus Jones.
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May 21, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accepted a luxury Boeing 747 aircraft from Qatar for President Donald Trump to use as Air Force One, the Pentagon said Wednesday, despite ongoing questions about the ethics and legality of taking the expensive gift from a foreign nation.
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May 21, 2025
The U.N. said Wednesday it was trying to get the desperately needed aid that has entered Gaza this week into the hands of Palestinians amid delays because of fears of looting and Israeli military restrictions.
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May 21, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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May 21, 2025
Justice for Charles Baird, the New Lenox teen shot and killed outside a local gas station in 2020, will be delayed for a month.
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May 21, 2025
Illinois lawmakers advanced a bill that would emphasize domestic violence awareness training for members of the state's Prisoner Review Board.
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May 21, 2025
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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May 21, 2025
The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the U.S. is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam to a chaotic country that's once again in danger of collapsing into civil war.
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May 21, 2025
The Trump administration said Wednesday it had deported eight migrants convicted of violent crimes in the United States but refused to reveal where they would end up.
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May 21, 2025
Target's challenge to revive sales and its status as a cheap chic retailer just got more complicated.
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May 21, 2025
Four suburban men who were accused of attacking restaurant workers and an off-duty Chicago police officer outside of a Mount Greenwood restaurant were found not guilty by a judge on Wednesday.
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May 21, 2025
Country Club Hills School District 160 spent $25,000 on conferences last year as parents raise concerns over school conditions.
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May 21, 2025
A 20-year-old Markham man was charged in the 2023 fatal shooting of a 30-year-old man on the South Side in the Oakland neighborhood.
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May 21, 2025
A pope's life is filled with grandeur and pageantry. Pope Leo XIV's former life was nothing like that.
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May 21, 2025
Rapper and actor Kid Cudi is expected to testify at the Sean "Diddy" Combs sex trafficking trial this week, taking the witness stand to tell the jury about his brief relationship 14 years ago with Combs' ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie.
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May 21, 2025
A Near West Side man was charged in the stabbing death of a 64-year-old man in the United Center neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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May 21, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's plan for a "Golden Dome" to protect the United States from long-range missiles was at least partly inspired by Israel's multitiered missile defenses.
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May 21, 2025
House Republicans are pushing to vote on their multi-trillion-dollar tax breaks package as soon as Wednesday, grinding out last-minute deal-making to shore up wavering GOP support and deliver on President Donald Trump's top legislative priority.
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May 21, 2025
Iran's top diplomat insisted Wednesday that Tehran will never stop enriching uranium, further underlining the Islamic Republic's red line in negotiations with the United States over its rapidly advancing nuclear program.
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May 21, 2025
An Austin man was charged with attempt murder after he was identified as the driver who struck and injured an officer on the West Side.
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May 21, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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May 21, 2025
In Illinois, cuts to AmeriCorps will leave some programs for the summer shuttered or scrambling for volunteers.
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May 21, 2025
In the hard-fought campaign to liberate the Philippines during World War II, 22-year-old Army Cpl. Henry Van Der Noord of suburban Lansing was hit with shrapnel during a key battle on the island of Luzon. Van Der Noord survived — as did three brothers who also served their country in the war — and earned […]
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May 21, 2025
Elizabeth Poole and her new team will begin their work by focusing on lead-based paint hazards as they build out the new program.
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May 21, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 21, according to the Tribune's archives.
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May 21, 2025
On May 21, 1955, Chuck Berry recorded his first single, "Maybellene," for Chess Records in Chicago.
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May 20, 2025
Village leaders have not yet decided how the three-bedroom home would be used.
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May 20, 2025
Immigration authorities appear to have begun deporting migrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan.
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May 20, 2025
Illinois gun dealers were unable to sell ammunition after the Illinois State Police online portal used for verifying firearm owner ID cards was shut down for maintenance.
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May 20, 2025
Pope Leo XIV failed to properly investigate sex abuse claims while in prominent leadership roles in Chicago, victims' group says
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May 20, 2025
Prime, which is a for-profit company, bought the eight Illinois hospitals in March for more than $370 million from Ascension, a large Catholic health system.
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May 20, 2025
Downtown Ald. Brian Hopkins introduced a teen curfew ordinance that places the power to declare "snap curfews" solely in the hands of Chicago's police superintendent.
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May 20, 2025
A small group, most wearing light jackets in the chilly May evening, gathered in prayer outside the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City Monday night just hours before Benjamin Ritchie was executed by lethal injection.
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May 20, 2025
Indiana State Police Troopers Amanda Parker and Jaylen Holt-Terry took their plates and sat off to the side Tuesday afternoon, awed by the history in the room. Having just finished the Lowell post's annual Fallen Officer service, the pair understand the sacrifice that comes with being law enforcement. But being among the veteran officers, retirees and survivors of officers who died in the line of duty brought it home for them.
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May 20, 2025
One Chicago alderman, Lamont Robinson, 4th, faces a $250 fine, while six others were called out but not fined for blowing past the May 1 deadline.
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May 20, 2025
Immigration authorities appear to have begun deporting migrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan.
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