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Today's Top News Compilation - Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2020

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DOGE staff arrives at Peace Corps headquarters, signaling possible cuts

  • News source: Tara Prindiville and Nnamdi Egwuonwu | NBC News
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Representatives from the Department of Government Efficiency initiative have arrived at the Peace Corps' headquarters, the agency confirmed Saturday, signaling possible cuts to a volunteer mission that has long enjoyed bipartisan support, NBC News reported.

“Staff from the Department of Government Efficiency are currently working at Peace Corps headquarters and the agency is supporting their requests," the Peace Corps' press office said, without specifying what work DOGE is undertaking or how the agency is accommodating its requests.

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"Hands Off!": Americans across country protest Trump, Musk

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Hundreds of thousands took to the streets, in Washington, D.C. and other cities across the United States, in opposition to the policies of Donald Trump, in the largest protests since he returned to the presidency.
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Trump admin suspends lawyer in case of Maryland man mistakenly deported for failing to 'zealously advocate'

  • News source: FOX News
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The Trump administration has placed a Justice Department (DOJ) lawyer on leave for not "zealously advocating" its position in the case involving a Salvadoran man living in Maryland who was mistakenly deported last month.

Attorney General Pam Bondi's office placed Erez Reuveni, who argued for the government, in Friday’s hearing in which a judge ruled Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be returned to the U.S. by Monday, on indefinite paid leave, Fox News has learned.

"At my direction, every Department of Justice attorney is required to...
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US cancels visas for South Sudanese over deportation dispute

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The African nation is "taking advantage" of the US by not accepting its citizens, says the top US diplomat.
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No wigs please - the new rules shaking up beauty pageants

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Wigs and beauty contests are big business in Ivory Coast, but the industry is facing change.
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Flooding sweeps away 9-year-old as storms slam central US

  • News source: BBC News - World
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High winds and heavy rain were expected to continue into Sunday, delaying clean-up efforts.
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India's rivers are home to 6,000 dolphins - but they are in trouble

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Gangetic and Indus river dolphins are found in over two-dozen rivers in India.
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Justice Department places attorney who struggled to explain Maryland man's deportation on leave

  • News source: Ken Dilanian, Gary Grumbach and Raquel Coronell
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A Justice Department attorney who struggled in court on Friday to explain the Trump administration's deportation of a Maryland man to El Salvador has been placed on administrative leave, a department official said.

At the hearing, the government attorney, Erez Reuveni, expressed frustration over not having information the judge was seeking in the case of the deported man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and made clear he had was not getting much help from his superiors.

Abrego Garcia “should not have been removed,” he said, adding that he didn't know why...
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Trump admin argues judge can't order return of mistakenly deported man

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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A federal judge did not have the authority to order the Trump administration to broker the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported from the U.S. to a notorious El Salvador prison, government attorneys argued Saturday as they urged an appeals court to suspend the ruling.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday ordered the administration to "facilitate and effectuate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S. by late Monday night. Justice Department lawyers asked the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to immediately pause the judge's...
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US revokes all South Sudan visas, bars future issuance until deportees accepted

  • News source: FOX News
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday announced the U.S. will revoke visas held by South Sudanese passport holders will be revoked, and no others will be issued, effective immediately.

Rubio attributed the change to "the failure of
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Israel admits mistakes over medic killings in Gaza

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Israeli forces shot dead 15 emergency workers in a convoy of ambulances near Rafah on 23 March.
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Anti-Trump protests in cities across US declare 'hands off'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Thousands of protesters have gathered for the most visible opposition movement of Trump's second term.
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Trump urges US to 'hang tough' as 10% tariffs come into effect

  • News source: BBC News - World
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It comes on the largest day of protests against Trump's administration since he returned to office.
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Trump's agenda grapples with political and economic reality

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Trump says it’s all going to plan but stock market turmoil plus struggles at home and abroad show how hard it is to deliver as president.
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Flooding sweeps away 9-year-old as storms slam central US

  • News source: BBC News - World
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  • Views: 18
High winds and heavy rain were expected to continue into Sunday, delaying clean-up efforts.
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