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Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., speaks during a rally at the U.S. Treasury Department in February 2025 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Law

DOJ charges New Jersey congresswoman with assault over immigration facility tussle

Democrats have denounced the charges as politically motivated and an effort by the Trump administration to intimidate members of Congress and chill oversight.

May 20, 2025
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  • Ryan Lucas
Protesters in Miami support a resolution in favor of reinstating temporary protected status for Venezuelans on Feb. 13, 2025. In early February,  the Trump administration revoked temporary protected status for around 350,000 Venezuelans who fled the country and immigrated to the United States.

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  • Law

Supreme Court says Trump can strip protected status for Venezuelans for now

The move could potentially lead to the deportations of some 350,000 Venezuelans while litigation continues in the lower courts.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
A view of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) building headquarters on March 18 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Law

Federal judge blocks Trump's takeover of U.S. Institute of Peace

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled the USIP president and board members were unlawfully fired by President Trump and should be reinstated.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
Cassie Ventura (left) and Sean Combs at the Met Gala in New York City in 2017. Ventura testified for the prosecution in the criminal trial of Combs, who is charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transporting to engage in prostitution. Combs has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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  • Music

Sean Combs trial: Cassie concludes four days of testimony

On Friday, Sean Combs' defense lawyers questioned Cassie Ventura about how much of the former couple's activities she willingly participated in. "I had to fight my way out," she said.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom presents his revised 2025-2026 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

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  • National

These Democratic governors are trying to curb health care for unauthorized immigrants

After expanding state Medicaid programs to cover people in the country without legal status, Democrats are considering changes that would reduce immigrant access.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Dana Ferguson and
  • Laura Fitzgerald
Harmeet Dhillon, far right, is sworn in during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2025 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Law

70% of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division lawyers are leaving because of Trump's reshaping

Current and former officials say the current effort amounts to the dismantling of the civil rights division and its traditional mission.

May 19, 2025
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  • Ryan Lucas
A sign is displayed outside the Internal Revenue Service building on May 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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  • Politics

IRS sued by watchdog group for records on Trump's attacks on Harvard

Watchdog group American Oversight takes Trump administration to court over the alleged withholding of information related to Harvard University's tax-exempt status

May 19, 2025
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  • Luke Garrett
District Court Judge Shelley Joseph leaves Boston federal court in April 2019 for allegedly helping a man in the country illegally evade immigration officials as he left her Newton, Mass., courthouse.

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Wisconsin judge's case is rare but not unprecedented. There's another near Boston

Massachusetts Judge Shelley Joseph was accused of helping an undocumented immigrant evade authorities more than seven years ago. Her case is still unresolved.

May 17, 2025
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  • Tovia Smith
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is seen during a press conference on May 7 in Washington, D.C. Bondi's Department of Justice recently charged a few noncitizens for alleged illegal voting, citing assistance from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

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  • Elections

Trump's DOJ focuses in on voter fraud, with a murky assist from DOGE

President Trump and his allies have long made false claims of widespread noncitizen voting. Now, as the GOP pursues new restrictions, experts worry isolated arrests will be used to push the new rules.

May 17, 2025
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  • Miles Parks and
  • Jude Joffe-Block
In an aerial view, inmates are seen in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Center on May 12 in Anson, Texas. ICE has begun transferring illegal immigrant detainees to the Bluebonnet Detention Center after U.S. District Judge Wesley Hendrix readily offered the facility to the Trump administration under the Alien Enemies Act.

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  • Law

Supreme Court extends pause on deportations under Alien Enemies Act in Texas

The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of immigrants in northern Texas under the Alien Enemies Act. It said it's not directly addressing whether the invocation of the act was legal.

May 16, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Diddy performs onstage at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards.

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  • Arts & Life

Diddy's lawyers plan to argue "mutual violence." Will that strategy work?

"Mutual abuse" is a term you may have heard in celebrity abuse trials - here's how to make sense of it.

May 16, 2025
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By:
  • Liam McBain and
  • Corey Bridges
Novelist Salman Rushdie promotes the German-language edition of his book <em>Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder</em> in Berlin on May 16, 2024. In the book, Rushdie confronts the 2022 attack that left him blind in one eye.

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  • National

Man who attacked author Salman Rushdie is sentenced to 25 years in prison

Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture and wounding another person on stage.

May 16, 2025
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Music mogul and entrepreneur Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives at the Billboard Music Awards, May 15, 2022, in Las Vegas.

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  • Law

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' attorney cross-examines Cassie Ventura for the first time

An attorney asked Ventura a series of questions about Ventura admittedly feeling jealous during her relationship with Combs and Ventura begrudgingly planning parts of their sex life.

May 16, 2025
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Smokey Robinson is shown attending the screening for <em>The Apollo</em> during the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival on April 24, 2019, in New York.

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  • Law

Smokey Robinson under criminal investigation after sexual assault allegations

Motown legend Smokey Robinson is being criminally investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department following allegations accusing him of a series of sexual assaults.

May 16, 2025
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By:
  • Steve Futterman
Activists demonstrate during a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court on May 14 in Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether the Trump administration has the power to end birthright citizenship.

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  • News

SCOTUS divided over birthright citizenship. And, a recap of Diddy's trial

The U.S. Supreme Court justices heard arguments over birthright citizenship yesterday. And, week one of Sean "Diddy" Combs' criminal trial featured testimony from witnesses and alleged victims.

May 16, 2025
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  • Brittney Melton
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