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Supreme Court allows Trump to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans who risk deportation

By MARK SHERMAN
Updated 2:12 PM CDT, May 19, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation.

The court’s order, with only one noted dissent, puts on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month. The justices provided no rationale, which is common in emergency appeals.

The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife.

The high court’s order appears to be the “single largest action in modern American history stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status,” said Ahilan Arulanantham, one of the attorneys for Venezuelan migrants.

“This decision will force families to be in an impossible position either choosing to survive or choosing stability,” said Cecilia Gonzalez Herrera, who sued to try and stop the Trump administration from revoking legal protections from her and others like her.

“Venezuelans are not criminals,” Gonzalez Herrera said.

“We all deserve the chance to thrive without being sent back to danger,” she said. ...

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US has deported Asian migrants to South Sudan, lawyers tell court

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Lawyers for a Burmese man said their client speaks limited English and had refused to sign a notice of removal.
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Italy's Meloni ready to help if Vatican agrees to Trump's war mediation plan

  • News source: BBC News - World
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For now the Holy See says the idea of even hosting talks is more a hope than a concrete plan.
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WATCH: Democrat lawmaker charged with assaulting federal agents laughs off fundraising questions

  • News source: FOX News
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Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., refused to answer Fox News' questions over whether her motivations for storming a federal immigration detention center earlier this month was to increase her public image, after it was uncovered McIver had been fundraising off the incident that has led to federal charges for the New Jersey Democrat.

The Department of Justice publicly outlined federal charges against McIver on Tuesday, accusing her of allegedly "assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement" earlier this month at a Newark-area immigrant...
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Trump makes rare Capitol Hill visit to push GOP on budget package

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump made a rare trip from the White House to Capitol Hill to pressure House Republicans to support his massive budget package. Nikole Killion has the latest.
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Rubio and Van Hollen get into heated exchange over Trump policies

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, engaged in a heated exchange Tuesday as the nation's top diplomat defended the Trump administration's foreign policy while testifying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

For seven minutes, Van Hollen criticized Rubio on his handling of issues ranging from the freezing of humanitarian assistance in Sudan during a genocide, deportations to El Salvador without due process and revoking student visas.

"You and I served together in Congress for 15 years,"...
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RFK Jr. tells farmers, GOP not to worry about his report targeting pesticides

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought Tuesday to reassure farmers and one Republican senator about his upcoming report on how pesticides are driving up rates of childhood chronic diseases, acknowledging that chemicals like glyphosate that he has long criticized are widely used for growing crops in the U.S.

"I have said repeatedly throughout this process, that we cannot take any step that will put a single farmer in this country out of business," Kennedy said at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee. "There's a...
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Crypto billionaire Justin Sun says he's the biggest owner of Trump's meme coin

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The largest holder of President Trump's cryptocurrency token is entrepreneur Justin Sun, the billionaire revealed Tuesday — earning him an invite to a controversial dinner this week hosted by Mr. Trump for his meme coin's biggest backers.

Sun announced he will attend Thursday evening's dinner at Mr. Trump's D.C.-area golf club — which is open to the 220 largest holders of the $TRUMP meme coin — in a post on X, describing himself as the president's "TOP fan."

"As the top holder of $TRUMP, I'm excited to connect with everyone, talk crypto, and...
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U.S. put Asian migrants on deportation flight to South Sudan, lawyers allege

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Immigration lawyers told a federal judge on Tuesday that they received information indicating the U.S. government may have put migrants from countries like Myanmar and Vietnam on a deportation flight to South Sudan, an eastern African nation plagued by conflict and political instability.

In an emergency filing to the federal district court in Massachusetts, the attorneys said the reported deportation flight to South Sudan would directly violate an ruling issued by U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy that barred the Trump administration from...
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India's Banu Mushtaq scripts history with International Booker win

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Mushtaq won the prize for the short story collection Heart Lamp, translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi.
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Cheers star George Wendt dies at 76

  • News source: BBC News - World
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He was best known for playing Norm Peterson in the popular comedy series Cheers from 1982 to 1993.
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Trump, Hegseth announce 'Golden Dome,' a ‘game changer’ to protect American homeland

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President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the U.S. will soon begin construction of a "Golden Dome" missile defense system they say will be a next-generation "game changer" protecting the American homeland from outside adversaries.

A similar system, the Iron Dome, has already been developed in Israel with U.S. assistance and has proven effective in repelling missile attacks. Now. Trump says a bigger, more technologically advanced, multi-layered dome system will soon be installed in America.

The president announced the...
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Senate GOP vows vote to end Biden EPA waiver granted to push drivers to EV cars

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Senate Republicans indicated that they intend to vote this week on whether to nix California's emissions waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has allowed the blue state to adopt stricter vehicle emissions standards than those imposed at the federal level, including a mandate that all vehicles sold in the state must be electric by 2035.

The planned vote sets up a battle between Republicans and Democrats over whether the waiver is a government "rule" subject to the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to get rid of...
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US awaits Putin ceasefire proposal after Trump phone call, Rubio says

  • News source: FOX News
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The U.S. is awaiting a proposal from Russian President Vladimir Putin that may lead to a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, Secretary Marco Rubio announced Tuesday.

"He says he's going, they're going to submit a proposal that would lead to a ceasefire, that would then lead to a broader negotiation," Rubio told lawmakers during a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing. "I think we will know from the context of that proposal where their mindset is and where they stand."

Asked if he believed Russia was ready to cut a deal, the secretary and...
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Biden's last prostate cancer blood test was in 2014, spokesperson says

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Former President Joe Biden received his last known blood test to check for prostate cancer in 2014, a spokesperson said Tuesday — two days after Biden revealed he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

"Prior to Friday, President Biden had never been diagnosed with prostate cancer," the spokesperson added.

Biden turned 72 in 2014, putting him toward the end of the typical age range for prostate cancer screenings. Doctors generally recommend halting routine testing after the age of 70 or 75 because prostate cancer is often slow-growing in older...
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Columbia University acting president booed during graduation speech

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Columbia University acting President Claire Shipman was greeted with boos and chants of "free Mahmoud" as she took the lectern to speak at the school's graduation ceremony on Tuesday.

Videos posted to social media showed Shipman pausing while students heckled her before she could begin speaking.

"I know that many of you feel some amount of frustration with me and I know you feel it with the administration. And I know that we have a strong, strong tradition of free speech at this university. And I am always open to feedback, which I am getting right...
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