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'True recklessness': Boston-born attorney stunned as Trump admin. orders her to leave US

An Arizona immigration attorney who was born in Boston and is an American citizen expressed astonishment after receiving a letter from the Department of Homeland Security telling her she must leave the United States.

Pamela Rioles Saeed told KNXV-TV she received an email from DHS informing her that her parole had been revoked and she must depart the country within a week.

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‘Turmoil’: WSJ’s conservative editors turn on Trump's 'policy errors'

The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board blasted Donald Trump on Thursday in a blistering opinion piece that urged the president to back off the feud he opened up earlier in the day with Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.

“President Trump’s tariff war isn’t going well, with market ructions and evidence of a slowing economy,” the Journal’s board wrote bluntly as it recapped Trump’s early morning reaction to Powell’s critical remarks of the administration’s tariffs – and refusal to lower interest rates.

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'Freakishly incoherent': Trump DOJ official dragged after 'poorly written' threat

The interim U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., is being derided online after sending a threat letter critics call "nonsensical."

Ed Martin penned the page-and-a-half note to the editor-in-chief of the medical journal for the American College of Chest Physicians, in Illinois, on Monday, asking for information about the "partisan" slant of the journal.

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'Unrepentant': Trump DOJ blasts 'belligerent' ousted GOP lawmaker ahead of sentencing

Federal prosecutors used disgraced former Rep. George Santos's (R-NY) social media posts against him in a court filing Thursday as they seek a lengthy prison sentence for fraud.

Santos pleaded guilty last August to 23 federal fraud charges of stealing state unemployment money and using his donors' credit card information for personal gain.

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'Prayers don't do much': FSU student calls out Trump and DeSantis after mass shooting

A Florida State University student told CNN that students like him need action on protecting their communities from guns — and for politicians who ignore the issue to take notice.

"I mean, prayers to you know, all my peers, the professors, the staff, the community. I mean, really, the country," he said. "You know, I'm going to call on, like, you know, Governor Ron DeSantis, the president, Donald Trump, for — you know, this stuff keeps going on, right? But we're, you know, praying every day."

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'Extremely remarkable': Experts stunned by court's 'striking' ruling against Trump

Legal analysts are celebrating after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration's request over a judge's definition of "facilitate."

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the government must "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Ábrego García, a Maryland apprentice who came to the United States as a teenager 15 years ago. A judge ruled that García could be deported, but not to El Salvador. García was sent to the prison there anyway, due to what the Justice Department lawyers called a "clerical error."

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'Illegal': Trump Media demands probe as hedge fund makes massive bet against it

A London-based hedge fund has drawn the ire of Donald Trump’s growing media company after a big bet against the president’s stock was disclosed to federal regulators this week.

Now, Trump Media & Technology Group is raising questions over trades conducted by Qube Research & Technologies, and insisting that market regulators investigate the firm’s “suspicious activity,” the Guardian reported Thursday.

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'Hearts are broken': FSU school shooting leaves 2 dead as suspect ID'd as deputy's son

Two people have died in a shooting on Thursday at Florida State University, and officials identified the gunman as the son of a sheriff's deputy.

The shooting took place around noon Eastern Time at the FSU Student Union, a central and busy part of campus, especially during lunch hours. Two people who are not students were killed. Five were hospitalized.

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'Taste for revenge': Columnist thinks little-known 1970s feud fueled Trump's Harvard hate

A special correspondent with The Daily Beast connected President Donald Trump's first New York real-estate deal in the 1970s to his desire to punish Harvard University today for defying his authority.

According to writer Michael Daly, the common link between the two episodes is the billionaire Pritzker family; Jay Pritzker ran afoul of Trump when the two entered into an ill-fated partnership to manage New York's Hyatt Hotel in 1975, while niece Penny Pritzker currently serves as Harvard's most senior member on its board of governors.

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'Murdered': Investigative journalist shares grim prediction for mistakenly deported dad

Investigative journalist and author Kurt Eichenwald, a former New York Times reporter, revealed suspicions that a wrongly deported Maryland man "has already been murdered."

Eichenwald wrote about his theory on the Blue Sky social media platform on Thursday.

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US-born citizen being held for ICE under Florida’s new anti-immigration law

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his U.S. birth certificate in court.

The man, who was arrested Wednesday after a traffic stop in which he was a passenger on his way to his job in Tallahassee, is set to remain in jail for the next 48 hours, waiting for federal immigration officials to pick him up, even though Leon County authorities dropped his first-degree misdemeanor charge.

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Cops deploy undercover AI bots to infiltrate college protests: report

An artificial intelligence program that's sold to police departments is being used to infiltrate and spy on college protest groups with "undercover" bots, reported Wired on Thursday.

"Massive Blue, the New York–based company that is selling police departments the technology, calls its product Overwatch and markets it as an 'AI-powered force multiplier for public safety' that 'deploys lifelike virtual agents, which infiltrate and engage criminal networks across various channels,'" reported Emanuel Maiberg and Jason Koebler.

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'This should be shocking': Judge levels Trump DOJ in scathing ruling

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected the Trump Department of Justice's request to block orders that the Trump administration facilitate the release of wrongly deported immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The decision, which was written by Reagan-appointed Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, informed the administration that it would not "micromanage" the orders of Judge Paula Xinis, who has demanded that the administration provide daily updates its efforts to return Garcia to the United States.

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