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Supreme Court allows Trump administration to end humanitarian status for some migrants

The move to grant a stay in the case means that the Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who were granted temporary parole under the program known as CHNV would lose their temporary legal status to be in the U.S.

May 30, 2025
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The Nathan Deal Judicial Center, home of Georgia's Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, is seen on May, 1, 2024, in Atlanta.

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  • Law

Georgia Supreme Court upholds law restricting handgun carry for young Georgians

The Georgia Supreme Court is upholding a state law that bans most Georgians under 21 from carrying handguns in public

May 30, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
The Supreme Court narrowed the scope of environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects.

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  • Law

Supreme Court limits environmental reviews of infrastructure projects

The decision makes it easier to win approval for highways, bridges, pipelines, wind farms, and other infrastructure projects.

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
People walk past the U.S. Court of International Trade, Watson Courthouse, in lower Manhattan on Thursday. In a ruling that surprised many, the trade court ruled Wednesday in an opinion by a three-judge panel that a 1977 law called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not grant Trump "unbounded" authority to impose the worldwide and retaliatory tariffs he has issued by executive order. Then, on Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted the Trump administration's re…

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Federal court keeps Trump tariffs in place — for now

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted the Trump administration's request to temporarily put on hold the New York-based Court of International Trade judgment that struck down President Trump's tariffs.

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Danielle Kurtzleben ,
  • Scott Horsley,
  • and 1 more
President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order imposing tariffs on imported goods during a "Make America Wealthy Again" trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

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Federal court blocks Trump tariffs. And, why Hungary inspires American conservatives

The stakes are high in the case of a federal court blocking many of President Trump's tariffs this term. And, why Hungary and its leader are inspiring American conservatives.

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
Billionaire White House adviser Elon Musk listens during a May 21 press availability in the Oval Office with President Trump and South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa.

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  • Politics

Judge rules suit challenging DOGE and Elon Musk's power over government can continue

A judge has denied a request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging Elon Musk and DOGE are wielding unconstitutional power within the government. Separately, Musk also criticized a Trump-backed spending bill.

May 28, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
A rally for pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil in New York in March. He's been detained in an immigration detention center in Louisiana as the government tries to deport him.

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Judge says Rubio 'likely' violated Constitution in ordering Mahmoud Khalil deported

But in a mixed ruling, federal Judge Michael Farbiarz declined, for now, to order Khalil released from immigration detention.

May 28, 2025
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  • Adrian Florido
Gov. Brian Kemp (left) signs bills inside the Georgia Capitol on May 8, 2025 as first lady Marty Kemp (right), Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (center) and lawmakers watch.

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  • News

Lawmakers Huddle: A new law will make it easier to get a licensed job in Georgia

Changes are coming for Georgians frustrated by the state’s professional licensing system.

May 27, 2025
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  • Donna Lowry
The J. Edgar Hoover building's FBI seal pictured in March in Washington, D.C. Dan Bongino, deputy director of the FBI, announced the bureau's renewed efforts around three cases on Monday.

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  • Law

FBI reexamining Dobbs opinion leak, D.C. pipe bombs and White House cocaine cases

Dan Bongino, the deputy director of the FBI, says the bureau is refocusing on cases that pointed to "potential public corruption."

May 26, 2025
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
This undated photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Corrections Communications Department shows inmate Grant Hardin.

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  • National

Former police chief, serving murder and rape sentences, escapes from Arkansas prison

Grant Hardin was the police chief of Gateway, Ark. for about four months in 2016. Corrections officials did not provide any details about how he escaped.

May 26, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A military aircraft waits for migrants to board from a bus at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Tx., on Jan. 30, 2025, before deporting them to Guatemala.

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  • USPS

Judge orders the Trump administration to return a Guatemalan man to the U.S.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man it deported to Mexico in spite of his fears of being harmed there.

May 24, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Hundreds gathered  in New York in March to protest the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder who was arrested by federal immigration agents over his pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University

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  • USPS

Mahmoud Khalil told a judge his deportation could be a death sentence. Here's why

Khalil's lawyers are trying to convince an immigration judge that if he's deported, Israel could target him over his advocacy for Palestinian rights.

May 24, 2025
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By:
  • Adrian Florido
Relatives of victims hold a placard with photos of victims of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash in March 2019, prior to a hearing in Fort Worth, Texas, in January 2023.

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  • National

DOJ confirms it has a deal with Boeing to drop prosecution over deadly 737 Max crashes

The Justice Department says it has reached an agreement in principle with Boeing to drop a criminal case over two fatal crashes of 737 Max jets, despite objections from some victims' family members.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Joel Rose
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday granted for now the Trump administration's emergency request to let him fire the heads of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board.

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  • Law

Supreme Court allows Trump to fire members of independent agency boards — for now

At issue is President Trump's firing of NLRB member Gwen Wilcox, who still has three years left on her term, and Cathy Harris, who still has four years left on her term as a member of the MSPB.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
A temporary memorial outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.

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  • National

Suspect charged with murder in killing of 2 Israeli Embassy staffers

Federal authorities are also investigating the Washington, D.C. shootings as a hate crime and an act of terrorism.

May 22, 2025
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  • Kat Lonsdorf,
  • Becky Sullivan,
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