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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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Trump heads to Capitol Hill to push 'big, beautiful bill'

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President Donald Trump is headed to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to push Republicans toward passing his "big, beautiful bill."

Trump's visit comes as House Republicans are split between spending hawks who want to cut more of the deficit and moderates who are seeking expanded tax deductions for Americans. Trump himself pushed tax cuts in a statement on Monday.

"If we don't get it, that means the Democrats will have stopped us. And that means people will get a 68% tax increase, the largest in history. And if we do get it, we're going to have the largest...
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Schumer fields bill in bid to scuttle Trump's Qatar plane plans

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wants to put the kibosh on President Donald Trump's plan for the U.S. military to accept a Boeing airplane from Qatar to be used as Air Force One.

The Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill that would prohibit utilizing Defense Department funding to procure, modify, restore, or maintain an aircraft for presidential flight if that aircraft was previously owned by a foreign government, foreign government-controlled entity, or foreign government representative.

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Vietnamese beauty queen arrested for fraud over fibre gummies

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The former Miss Grand International winner had heavily touted the gummies on social media.
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Brussels hails UK deal as 'new chapter' - but much is yet to be written

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The two sides have struck a new post-Brexit deal but this so-called 'reset' of the relationship is just the beginning.
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Gazan babies will die without aid - UN humanitarian chief

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About 14,000 babies will die in 48 hours if aid does not reach them, a UN humanitarian chief warns.
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Fiery RFK flogs WHO for caving to China on COVID, celebrating pandemic ‘failures’ in stunning video to org

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FIRST ON FOX: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sent a fiery prerecorded video to be broadcast before the World Health Assembly, which gathers member states of the World Health Organization, on Tuesday outlining why President
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Soros-backed Philly DA could face uphill battle for re-election if GOP write-in scheme succeeds

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In the six-to-one Democrat stronghold of Philadelphia, winning a seat as a Republican is tough to say the least. There hasn’t been a Republican mayor since Bernard Samuel in the 1950s, for example.

So it may not be that surprising that the local GOP has a plan it hopes will give a Democrat primary challenger to incumbent District Attorney Lawrence Krasner a crucial second round against the Soros-backed prosecutor should he get knocked out in Tuesday's primary election.

Krasner is facing fellow Democrat and former judge Pat Dugan, who also has the...
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Flashback: Remember when Nikki Haley called for mental competency tests for all politicians 75 or older?

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As she ran for the White House in the 2024 election cycle, Nikki Haley made her calls for "new generational leadership" a key component of her Republican presidential campaign.

And front and center from day 1 of her campaign as the former South Carolina governor and former United Nations ambassador declared her candidacy in February 2023 was her call for "mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old."

As Haley challenged then-76-year-old former President Donald Trump for the 2024 GOP nomination in hopes of eventually facing...
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Pittsburgh's progressive mayor faces stiff challenge from 'old guard' in primary

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Pittsburgh’s mayoral race has not been competitive on a partisan level since the 1930s, but all eyes are on which way the Steel City goes in Tuesday’s primary election as the Democratic Party faces a crossroads.

Incumbent Mayor Ed Gainey, seen as the more progressive choice in the race, is facing stiff competition from Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor, himself the son of a Democratic mayor of Pennsylvania’s second-largest city.

Gainey, the city’s first Black mayor, has at times cast himself on the national stage as a critic of President...
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DOJ opens investigation into City of Chicago hiring practices

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The U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's office Monday to inform him they've opened an investigation into the city's hiring practices.

The letter, dated Monday, accuses the City of Chicago of violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in its hiring practices for state and local government employees.

The letter says Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the investigation be opened based on information "suggesting that you have made hiring decisions solely on the basis of race."

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Trump won't force Medicaid to cover GLP-1s for obesity. A few states are.

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — When Page Campbell's doctor recommended that she try an injectable prescription drug called Wegovy to lose weight before scheduling bariatric surgery, she readily agreed.

"I've struggled with my weight for so long," said Campbell, 40, a single mother of two. "I'm not opposed to trying anything."

In early April, about four weeks after she'd started taking Wegovy, Campbell said she hadn't experienced any side effects, such as nausea or bowel irritation. But she doesn't use a scale at home, so she said she didn't know whether she'd...
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At least 38 killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza in half-hour period, medics say

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Fighter jets hit sites including a school in Gaza City, the Hamas-run civil defence agency says.
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Titan of Russian ballet Yuri Grigorovich dies at 98

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Acclaimed Russian ballet choreographer, Yuri Grigorovich, received top Soviet and Russian honours.
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India's 'Silicon Valley' flooded after heavy rains

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Three people have been killed in Bengaluru after the city received heavy rainfall from Sunday night.
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Diddy smashed on Cassie Ventura's door with hammer, trial told

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Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial heard more allegations of violence against his former girlfriend.
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