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6 days ago | 
theweek.com | Rafi Schwartz
As the battle over President Donald Trump's extrajudicial deportation agenda intensifies, lawmakers have begun descending on El Salvador's CECOT prison to stake their political claims on the White House's international outsourcing of its migrant detention program. Visits to CECOT have afforded Republicans another avenue for showcasing their fealty to the Trump administration and its anti-immigrant agenda.
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6 days ago | 
theweek.com | Rafi Schwartz
The Supreme Court yesterday said it will consider President Donald Trump's emergency request to lift or limit nationwide injunctions blocking his order to deny citizenship to the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants and temporary residents. Three federal judges have halted Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship, enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, and appellate courts have declined to intercede.
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1 week ago | 
theweek.com | Rafi Schwartz
What happenedU.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled Wednesday that "probable cause exists" to charge Trump administration officials with criminal contempt for their "willful disregard" of his March 15 order to halt the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador's infamous CECOT prison without due process, under claimed wartime powers.
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1 week ago | 
theweek.com | Rafi Schwartz
What happenedChina Tuesday claimed the U.S. National Security Agency carried out "advanced" cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and athletes during the Asian Winter Games in February. Police in Harbin, which hosted the games, accused three Americans allegedly affiliated with the NSA of carrying out the hacks, as well as cyberattacks on Huawei Technologies.
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1 week ago | 
discourseblog.com | Rafi Schwartz
By most accounts, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is the sort of fairly decent elected official whose “fairly decent-ness” and lack of any overarching scandals places her towards the front of the Democratic pack as the party examines a depressingly shallow bench for the 2028 presidential elections.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Rafi Schwartz
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Rafi Schwartz
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1 week ago | 
theweek.com | Rafi Schwartz
It's been months since the Syrian rebels toppled the government of longtime strongman leader Bashar al-Assad, forcing him to flee the country he'd ruled for decades. While the new Syrian government led by rebel coalition leader-turned-President Ahmed al-Shara works to establish order, the political power vacuum left by the volatile regime change has left some of the country's neighbors anxious to ensure their own foreign policy aims.
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1 week ago | 
theweek.com | Rafi Schwartz
Contrary to what cinematic super-spy James Bond would have you believe, most international espionage is less "whizzing bullets" and more "convincing people to tell you things they shouldn't." By that metric, many of the United States' foreign adversaries are salivating over the Trump administration's mass layoffs, which have created a fertile ground of disgruntled government workers, former and current.
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1 week ago | 
theweek.com | Rafi Schwartz
What happenedThe Trump administration is seeking to lock Columbia University into a legally binding consent decree, giving the White House oversight of the university for years to come, The Wall Street Journal said Thursday. The proposal is a significant escalation of President Donald Trump's expanding effort to exert power over top-tier U.S. universities by withholding federal research funds.
