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U.S. and European officials say they are unaware of any intelligence that shows China and Russia are endangering the island, which is protected by the NATO security umbrella.
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Susan Collins, the most vulnerable Republican in the Senate, would not say whether she supported the Trump administration's ICE operation in Maine.
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Foreign leaders, Catholic archbishops and the Federal Reserve chairman are among those challenging Trump after a first year in which the president's critics often tried to placate him.
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U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr. ruled that a felon disenfranchisement provision in the state's constitution violates the federal Virginia Readmission Act of 1870.
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer stood firm over Greenland. But his center-left government and the country as a whole have been buffeted by President Trump.
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President Donald Trump said the Canadian leader was no longer welcome on his "prestigious Board of Leaders" after the pair traded barbs in high-profile speeches in Davos.
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House leaders were forced to rush Representative Wesley Hunt, Republican of Texas, to the Capitol with a police escort to avoid an embarrassing defeat on the floor.
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As President Donald Trump formally inaugurated his so-called Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, his son-in-law Jared Kushner presented his vision of turning the Gaza Strip into an upscale seaside resort with gleaming skyscrapers and entirely new cities. The proposal is said to require an investment of at least $25 billion, and Kushner's presentation showed a map of the besieged territory divided into different zones. This all comes as Palestinians in Gaza struggle to survive with little food or shelter amid ongoing Israeli restrictions on aid.
"It's hard to take these people seriously. I mean, they're buffoonish. But the problem is, is that they control the largest military and economy in the world," says Sharif Abdel Kouddous, the Middle East and North Africa editor at Drop Site News. He calls the Board of Peace "a parody of a colonial body" and says the plan for Gaza will result in "ultimate control and subjugation" of the Palestinian population.
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The influx of federal agents this week has been hard for locals to ignore. Many are expressing their resistance to the immigration crackdown.
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Two of the Democrats' rising stars, Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico, are seeing if a red state should be won courting disaffected Republicans or focusing on the party's base.
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The ruling represents another setback in the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign.
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The change, which could affect more than $30 billion in foreign assistance, is the Trump administration's latest move against what the president calls "woke ideology."
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A picture of a 5-year-old detained by federal authorities near Minneapolis rocketed around the internet and has become an avatar of outrage.
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Two of the Democrats' rising stars, Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico, are seeing if a red state should be won courting disaffected Republicans or focusing on the party's base.
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El gobierno interino de Venezuela ha dado otra señal de sus esfuerzos de apaciguar al gobierno de Trump y está recibiendo más ciudadanos deportados. Esta semana han llegado tres vuelos.
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Options range from targeted tariffs to selling off U.S. debt—but they're risky.
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Venezuela's interim government, in another sign of its willingness to placate the Trump administration, is receiving more deportation flights. Three flights arrived this week.
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Kaz Daughtry, a former deputy mayor under Eric Adams, was a key contact for federal administration officials involved in the White House's immigration crackdown.
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This past week could mark a turning point in the relationship between the UK prime minister and the US president.
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Just outside Minneapolis, the Whipple Building houses offices, a detention center and a courthouse — and has become the home base for immigration agents and protesters alike.
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Muchos comercios cerrarán sus puertas como parte de una huelga general contra las medidas represivas del gobierno de Trump en materia de migración.
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of Paul Robeson's death on January 23, 1976. The actor, singer, athlete and scholar was once famous around the world, but he was attacked, blacklisted and hounded by the government for his political beliefs. Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers star who had integrated the all-white major baseball leagues, was hailed as a national hero in 1949 for testifying against Robeson before the House Un-American Activities Committee run by Senator Joseph McCarthy. For more, we speak with sports journalist Howard Bryant, author of the new book Kings and Pawns that looks at how Robeson and Robinson's paths intertwined at the height of the McCarthy era.
"History writes people out of the story, and it's our job to write them back in," Bryant says. Fifty years after Paul Robeson's death, "it's time for a reappraisal of one of the great Americans."
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The Justice Department said Thursday that it had arrested three people in Minnesota who interrupted a church service in St. Paul to protest a pastor's role as a local ICE official. The activists involved in the protest now face charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a law written to protect abortion clinics.
One of the arrestees, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, had her appearance digitally altered in a photo posted online by the White House to make it look like she was crying while handcuffed. Her attorney, Jordan Kushner, tells Democracy Now! that Justice Department officials refused to let Levy Armstrong turn herself in, instead demanding an arrest at the hotel where she was staying. "This was their trophy," says Kushner, who adds that the government "used more manipulative tactics to keep her in jail" even though "no one is detained in a case like this."
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Progressives shouldn't let a retrograde style of internet discourse inhibit them from pointing out the obvious.
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Documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday include dossiers that investigators prepared on pro-Palestinian student activists before they were targeted for deportation.
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The president appeared to be lashing out in response to stark, high-profile remarks by Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada that rejected Mr. Trump's efforts to dismantle the international order.
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Judge Richard Leon focused on whether the Trump administration's use of private donations to fund the $400 million project was an "end run" around Congress.
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In a tie vote, the House defeated an effort to prohibit the president from using the U.S. military in Venezuela weeks after the raid he ordered that captured the country's leader.
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A photo showed a boy with an oversized hat and Spider-Man backpack being held next to a vehicle as his father was detained. A Homeland Security spokeswoman said the man had fled and left the child.
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Top officials from across the European Union will meet in Brussels on Thursday to discuss Greenland and, more broadly, their dire relationship with America.
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Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says the Russian president has shown no commitment to peace in Ukraine.
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More than 100 agents will be redirected from other cities after the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE officer.
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FEMA will now accept additional forms of documentation to verify occupancy and ownership requirements, improving access to disaster assistance for underserved communities
WASHINGTON - DHS today announced three immediate steps FEMA is taking to reduce barriers to access experienced by underserved populations through programs that provide individual assistance to disaster survivors. FEMA will now accept a broader range of homeownership and occupancy documentation, and expand the forms of assistance offered to survivors. These changes to FEMA's Individual Assistance program will help to ensure equal access is available to all survivors through FEMA programs.
"Our Department has an obligation to ensure we provide equal access to disaster relief and assistance to all survivors who are in need," said . "Equity is a cornerstone of our homeland security mission and in all of our work we must reach minority communities, the disadvantaged, and the otherwise disenfranchised. The changes we are announcing today reflect our commitment to always do better in achieving this moral imperative."
"This is a culture shift for the agency and we are only just beginning," said . "These new changes reduce the barriers to entry for our Individual Assistance program and will help us to provide more equitable disaster support to all survivors, specifically for underserved populations. Heading into the peak of hurricane season with 12 named Atlantic storms to date, and as wildfires strengthen out west, FEMA continues to put equity at the forefront of how we support survivors before, during, and after disasters."
To better support survivors seeking disaster relief, FEMA is:
FEMA is required by law to verify a survivor's home occupancy or ownershi
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