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Trump Officials Are Sending 1,000 More Immigration Officers to Minnesota

The Customs and Border Protection officers are joining 2,000 other officers and agents at the Department of Homeland Security who have recently been deployed to the Minneapolis region.

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Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis last week. Local officials have urged federal forces to leave the city, saying their efforts to arrest immigrants were sowing chaos and danger.
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Top Fed Official Conveys Little Urgency for Immediate Rate Cuts

The Federal Reserve is likely to hold interest rates steady when it meets at the end of the month, keeping tensions high with President Trump.

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John Williams, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in October.
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Former Congressional Employee Accused of Stealing 240 Phones

A Maryland man used his government job to order new cellphones worth over $150,000 and then sell them to a pawnshop, federal prosecutors said.

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The man accused in the theft, Christopher Southerland, was a system administrator for the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure from April 2020 to July 2023.
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Lawyer Whom Maduro Didn’t Hire Is Booted From His Case

Last week, a lawyer came forward claiming to represent the unseated president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. The judge overseeing the case settled the matter on Monday.

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Last week, Bruce Fein told the court that he was Nicolás Maduro’s lawyer, but on Monday a judge removed him from the case.
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Trump Explores Diplomacy With Iran While Weighing Strikes, Officials Say

Abbas Araghchi, the foreign minister of Iran, said his government was ready to negotiate with the United States. Iranian security forces are cracking down on protests.

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An image taken from a social media post released on Friday showing demonstrators gathered in Tehran. President Trump has said that he would come to the aid of protesters if the Iranian government used lethal force against them.
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Kelly Sues Pentagon Over Threats of Punishment From Hegseth

Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona, asked a federal judge to block the Trump administration from disciplining him for a video warning about illegal military orders.

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Senator Mark Kelly on Thursday at the Capitol.
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What to Know About the Criminal Investigation of Fed Chair Jerome Powell

The Justice Department’s probe into whether Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, lied about renovations to the central bank’s headquarters has raised alarms.

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The Federal Reserve building in Washington under construction in July.
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World Court Hears Groundbreaking Genocide Case Against Myanmar

The case was brought to the World Court by a country not directly affected by the alleged genocide of the Rohingya, a precedent for similar claims against other countries, including Israel.

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The International Court of Justice began hearing the genocide case against Myanmar, in The Hague, on Monday.
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Apple Teams Up With Google for A.I. in Its Products

Apple was facing increasing questions about its plans for artificial intelligence as other big tech companies invested tens of billions in the technology.

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New versions of Apple’s Apple Intelligence models will be based on Google’s Gemini A.I. models and its cloud computing services.
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With Democrats at a Crossroads, Elizabeth Warren Urges a Left Turn

The Massachusetts senator signaled alarm about her party’s movement toward the center, warning in a speech that Democrats should not cozy up to the wealthy and the powerful.

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“There are two versions for what a big tent means,” Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said in a speech on Monday in Washington. “The Democratic Party cannot pursue both visions at the same time.”
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DOJ Charges Luis Nino-Moncada, Who Was Shot by Border Patrol in Portland

Last week’s shooting of two Venezuelan immigrants put the city on edge. Federal officials said the man who was shot had repeatedly backed into a Border Patrol car.

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Law enforcement blocked off an area near where U.S. Border Patrol agents shot two people during a “targeted vehicle stop” in Portland, Ore.
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Federal Prosecutor Is Fired Amid Further Turmoil in Comey Case

Robert K. McBride had been serving as the top deputy to Lindsey Halligan, who has continued to act as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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A courthouse in the Eastern District of Virginia. Robert K. McBride had been working in the U.S. attorney’s office for the district for only a couple of months.
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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution

In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

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The change could make it easier to repeal limits on pollutants from coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities.
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