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    WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 09: Mother (2nd R) of Kilmar Abrego Garcia holds a picture of her son and his family during a news conference to discuss his son's arrest and deportation at Cannon House Office Building on April 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus held a news conference to discuss the deportation of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the maximum security prison Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador, an incident the Trump administration claims as “an administrative error,” but refuses to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States.
    Maryland’s Salvadoran community roiled by Abrego Garcia deportation
    The Kilmar Abrego Garcia case has roiled Maryland’s Salvadoran population, which is one of the largest immigrant groups in the state.
    NEW YORK CITY - JANUARY 28: In this handout photo provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the New York City Fugitive Operations Team, joined by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, conducted targeted enforcement operations resulting in the arrest of an illegal Dominican national on January 28, 2025 in New York City.
    Trump administration says it’ll pay undocumented immigrants $1,000 to leave the country
    The Trump administration says it is going to pay immigrants in the United States illegally who’ve returned to their home country voluntarily $1,000 as it pushes forward with its mass deportation agenda.
    Alcatraz Island is pictured on Sunday, May 4, 2025, in the San Francisco Bay, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
    Trump says he’ll reopen Alcatraz for ‘most ruthless and violent offenders’
    President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years.
    The U.S. Department of Education building is seen in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024.
    Student debt collections resume on May 5. Here’s what you need to know.
    Starting next month, the Education Department says student loans that are in default will be referred for collections.
    Sovereignty, center, ridden by jockey Junior Alvarado, leads the field to the finish line to win the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby.
    Sovereignty outduels 3-1 favorite Journalism in stretch to win 151st Kentucky Derby in the slop
    The second leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes, will be May 17 at Pimlico Race Course.
    FILE - Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks during a news conference, March 11, 2025, at the Department of Transportation in Washington.
    Aborted landings due to Army helicopter near Reagan airport ‘unacceptable,’ top official says
    U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday that it is “unacceptable” that two commercial aircraft had to abort landings at a Washington airport this week because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was flying to the Pentagon.
    NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 21:    Luigi Mangione appears at a hearing for the murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 21, 2025 in New York City.  Mangione is accused of slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson late last year and is making his first appearance on state charges of murder as an act of terrorism. He is facing 11 counts for the Dec. 4 shooting of Thompson outside a midtown Manhattan hotel which set off a massive manhunt. He is also facing federal charges of murder and other charges in Pennsylvania, where he was arrested.
    Luigi Mangione wants state murder case dropped, arguing double jeopardy in UnitedHealthcare killing
    Luigi Mangione‘s lawyers urged a judge to throw out his state murder charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
    Vice President JD Vance speaks during a tour at Nucor Steel Berkeley in Huger, S.C., Thursday, May 1, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)
    Vice President JD Vance to deliver Naval Academy graduation keynote address
    Vice President JD Vance will deliver the keynote address at the U.S. Naval Academy’s graduation and commissioning ceremony on May 23.
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers gather for a briefing before an enforcement operation, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md.
    Fed says Oklahoma family who moved from Maryland was wrongly targeted during immigration raid
    The agents took their phones, computers, and life savings in cash, the mother in the family said.
    National Security Advisor Mike Waltz speaks during a television interview at the White House, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
    Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz is out after Signal chat blunder
    Waltz is leaving the administration just weeks after it was revealed he added a journalist to a Signal chat being used to discuss military plans, according to two people familiar with the matter Thursday.
    In a still from a video captured by her daughter, Elsy Noemi Berrios is detained by ICE agents after being forcibly removed from her car while on her way to work in March.
    Bond denied for Maryland mother whom ICE detained after shattering her car window
    The 52-year-old Westminster woman’s arrest by ICE agents while in her car drew national attention.
    Supporters of charter schools rally outside of the Supreme Court.
    Roberts might hold key Supreme Court vote over first publicly funded religious charter school
    Roberts was the only justice whose vote seemed in doubt after the court heard more than two hours of arguments Wednesday.
    Anthony Matesic works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, April 30, 2025.
    US stocks sink after weak report on the economy but then halve losses after inflation update
    Much of Wednesday’s economic data raised concerns about a weakening economy.
    An aerial view of shipping containers stacked at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, California.
    U.S. economy shrinks 0.3% in first quarter as Trump trade wars disrupt business
    The January-March drop in gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — reversed a 2.4% gain in the last three months of 2024.
    Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., speaks during a news conference upon his arrival from meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
    Van Hollen argues Trump has the ability to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia
    In a letter to the White House, the senator detailed conversation with the Salvadoran vice president.
    A yellow flag marks a field contaminated with dioxin near Danang airport in Vietnam.
    The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues
    Millions of Vietnamese are born with severe developmental challenges linked to Agent Orange.
    VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - APRIL 26: Guests including France's First Lady Brigitte Macron, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Finland'S President Alexander Stubb, US President Donald Trump, US First Lady Melania Trump, Estonian President Alar Karis, King Felipe VI of Spain, Queen Letizia of Spain, Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa and His Highness Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince and President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Khaled Bin Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan attend the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square on April 26, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. Pope Francis died on April 21st at the age of 88. Born in Argentina as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he was the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to become Pope when elected in 2013. Taking the name Francis after St Francis of Assisi, he promoted a more humble version of the papacy than many of his predecessors. He will be buried outside of the Vatican in a simple wooden coffin at the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
    From mightiest to humblest, hundreds of thousands gather for Pope Francis’ funeral
    From some of the world’s most powerful leaders to those on society’s margins whom Pope Francis always made a point to minister to, hundreds of thousands of people participated at the Vatican Saturday for the funeral rites for the late pontiff.
    WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 17: U.S. President Donald Trump looks at a theater in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' REACH extension on March 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. After shunning the annual Kennedy Center Honors during his first term in the White House, Trump staged a takeover of the storied music, theater and dance institution by purging the bipartisan board of Biden appointees, firing the center’s president and making himself the new chairman in February. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
    Kennedy Center events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration have been canceled, organizers say
    Organizers and the Kennedy Center have canceled a week’s worth of events celebrating LGBTQ+ rights for this summer’s World Pride festival in Washington, D.C.
    Luigi Mangione appears at a hearing for the murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 21, 2025 in New York City.
    Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to federal murder charge in killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO
    Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty Friday to a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as prosecutors formally declared their intent to seek the death penalty against him.
    Johns Hopkins University, where 37 international graduate students and recent graduates lost their visas.
    ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international students in Maryland and around US, lawyer says
    The federal government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students after many filed court challenges around the U.S., a government lawyer said Friday.
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