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Today's Political News Compilation - Thursday, April 17, 2025

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Trump officials’ defiance over Abrego Garcia’s deportation is ‘shocking,’ appeals court says

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Updated 8:43 PM CDT, April 17, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s claim that it can’t do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. “should be shocking,” a federal appeals court said Thursday in a blistering order that ratchets up the escalating conflict between the government’s executive and judicial branches.

A three-judge panel from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously refused to suspend a judge’s decision to order sworn testimony by Trump administration officials to determine if they complied with her instruction to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return.

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, who was nominated by Republican President Ronald Reagan, wrote that he and his two colleagues “cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos.”

“This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time,” Wilkinson wrote.

The seven-page order amounts to an extraordinary condemnation of the administration’s position in Abrego Garcia’s case and also an ominous warning of the dangers of an escalating conflict between the judiciary and executive branches the court said threatens to “diminish both.” It says the judiciary will be hurt by the “constant intimations of its illegitimacy” while the executive branch “will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness.” ...

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The Washington Hilton's decades-long history with D.C. politics

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Inside the kitchen at the Washington Hilton ahead of Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner are frenetic dinner preparations for about 2,600 people.

"So, if it's a three-course, you multiply that by three, we could walk away doing almost 10,000 plates in the kitchen as a whole," Daniel Bennett, the hotel's executive chef, tells CBS News.

The correspondents' dinner has been an annual tradition since 1921, bringing together presidential comedy and the press corps, and the Hilton has been its home for 57 years.

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Australia's universal healthcare is crumbling. Can it be saved?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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More and more Australians, regardless of where they live, are delaying or going without the care they need.
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Russia detains suspect in car bomb attack that killed general

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The FSB say they detained a "Ukrainian special services agent". Kyiv has not commented on the attack.
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What student loan forgiveness opportunities still remain under Trump

  • News source: Annie Nova, CNBC
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Under the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Education made regular announcements that it was forgiving student debt for thousands of people under various relief programs and repayment plans.

That's changed under President Donald Trump.

In his first few months in office, Trump — who has long been critical of education debt cancellation — signed an executive order aimed at limiting eligibility for the popular Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, and his Education Department revised some student loan repayment plans to no longer...
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USDA threatens to halt Mexican beef imports over flesh-eating fly crisis

  • News source: FOX News
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In a dramatic move to protect America’s cattle industry, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has
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Russia detains suspect in car bomb attack that killed general

  • News source: BBC News - World
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  • Views: 18
The FSB say they detained a "Ukrainian special services agent". Kyiv has not commented on the attack.
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'We have more in common with America than the rest of Canada'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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In Alberta, many voters feel alienated by the country’s elite - some are even tempted by Trump’s call to join the US.
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Trump blasts Putin, questioning if Russian leader wants peace or is just 'tapping me along'

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump has expressed doubts that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to end its war with Ukraine which has raged for more than three years.

Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday to express his growing frustration with the Russian leader in a week that saw Russia launch a deadly missile attack on Kyiv. The Thursday attack on Ukraine killed 12 people and injured at least 90, including children.

"There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days," Trump wrote...
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Trump expresses doubts Putin is willing to end the Ukraine war, a day after saying a deal was close

  • News source: Darlene Superville | The Associated Press and
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President Donald Trump said Saturday that he doubts Russia's Vladimir Putin wants to end his war in Ukraine, expressing new skepticism that a peace deal can be reached soon. Only a day earlier, Trump had said Ukraine and Russia were “ very close to a deal."

"There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,” Trump said in a social media post as he flew back to the United States after attending Pope Francis’ funeral at the Vatican, where he met briefly with Ukrainian President...
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Judge demands answers on whether 2-year-old U.S. citizen was deported to Honduras

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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A federal judge says a 2-year-old Louisiana girl and U.S. citizen may have been deported to Honduras this week with her mother and 11-year-old sister without due process, according to court documents obtained by CBS News.

In an order Friday, Judge Terry Doughty for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana wrote there was a "strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."

When Doughty sought Friday afternoon to arrange a phone call with the mother of the girl, identified in court...
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World bids farewell to Pope who told people to 'build bridges, not walls'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Pope Francis has been buried in Rome, with hundreds of thousands of people and dozens of world leaders attending his funeral at the Vatican.
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Russia claims it has regained full control of Kursk from Ukraine

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Ukraine denies Russian claims it has been forced out of the border region.
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Woman jailed for 14 years in Brazil after 'lipstick coup'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Bolsonaro supporter, who drew in lipstick on a statue during riots, has been jailed for taking part in an alleged coup
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UN agency runs out of food aid in Gaza after Israeli blockade

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The UN agency has delivered its last supplies to meals kitchens, which it warns will run out of food in the coming days.
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'No excuse': Bipartisan fury erupts over New Jersey's REAL ID backlog

  • News source: FOX News
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It's virtually illegal to make a left turn in many parts of New Jersey, and bipartisan lawmakers there are outraged at how equally difficult it is to make a REAL ID appointment as of late.

"We’ve known for years that this deadline was coming," state Assemblymember Nancy Muñoz, R-Union, told Fox News Digital on Friday.

"There’s no excuse for the Motor Vehicle Commission to be this unprepared. Constituents are waking up early, refreshing their screens, only to watch appointments vanish in seconds," Muñoz, the Budget Committee’s minority leader, said...
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