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Hostage's Family Reacts to His Release: 'You Look Unbelievable'

Video emerges of 21-year-old Israeli American reuniting with mom, others after 584 days in captivity

(Newser) - On Monday, Hamas released the last living American-Israeli hostage , 21-year-old Edan Alexander, and now there's video of his emotional reunion with his family after 584 days in captivity, reports Mediaite .
  • Footage: In the clip posted by Axios' Barak Ravid, the New Jersey native is seen smiling as he's
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Judge Lets IRS Share Immigrant Tax Data With ICE

Nonprofit groups argued for privacy rights of undocumented taxpayers

(Newser) - A federal judge on Monday declined to stop the Internal Revenue Service from sharing immigrants' tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a move that allows the Trump administration to continue using the data to identify and deport undocumented immigrants, the AP reports. The ruling came from US District...

Kids Left Alone in Car After ICE Takes Dad at Gas Station

Witness says child and older sibling were left after father was arrested

(Newser) - Amid reports of increasing Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in cities along California's coast comes a story out of Oxnard, where a witness says a child and their older sibling were left alone at a gas station when ICE agents descended upon their car and arrested their father as...

First Group of White South African Refugees Heads to US

Afrikaner families prioritized as refugee groups question US policy shift

(Newser) - The first group of white South Africans taking part in the Trump administration's controversial relocation program left South Africa Sunday en route for the US, where they'll have refugee status. The 49 people, members of the country's minority Afrikaner group, departed Johannesburg on a private charter...

US Negotiators Report Progress in China Talks

White House says there's a deal, vice premier suggests it's more of a framework for talks

(Newser) - "I'm happy to report that we made substantial progress between the United States and China in the very important trade talks," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters on Sunday in Switzerland. He didn't go so far as to say an agreement was reached, though the White...

Trump Fires Copyright Chief Who Questioned AI Goals
Trump Fires Copyright Chief
May 11, 2025 2:55 PM CDT

Trump Fires Copyright Chief

Democrat calls dismissal after report questioned AI goals no coincidence

(Newser) - Two days after firing the Librarian of Congress , the White House fired the government's top copyright official. The US Copyright Office said Sunday that Shira Perlmutter received an email the day before saying her position "is terminated effective immediately," the AP reports. Perlmutter was appointed in 2020...

Trump Intends to Accept Gift From Qatar's Royals: Luxury 747

Government lawyers say plane can be used as Air Force One, then transferred to presidential library

(Newser) - The Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet as a gift from Qatar's royal family—a plane that President Trump would use as Air Force One while in office and as his personal airliner afterward. Valued at roughly $400 million before it's outfitted with...

Duffy Lists Plans for Newark, Controller Shortage
Duffy to Cut Back
Newark Flights
May 11, 2025 10:01 AM CDT

Duffy to Cut Back Newark Flights

Transportation secretary details plan to increase number of air traffic controllers

(Newser) - Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy plans to reduce the number of flights in and out of the Newark for the "next several weeks," as New Jersey's largest airport struggles with radar outages and numerous flight delays and cancellations due to a shortage of air traffic controllers. Speaking Sunday...

Trump Orders DHS to Add 20K Officers for Deportations

Force would include state and local law enforcement employees

(Newser) - President Trump has told the Department of Homeland Security to add 20,000 officers to its deportation force, a move that would include using state and local employees. The order was part of a presidential proclamation issued Friday about pressing immigrants without documentation to leave the US voluntarily, the New ...

Quakers March to Capitol With Message on Immigration

Protesters to deliver founding document on tolerance

(Newser) - A group of Quakers is marching more than 300 miles from New York City to Washington, DC, to demonstrate against the Trump administration's actions against immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the federal...

WH Adviser: Trump 'Actively Looking' to Halt Habeas Corpus

Stephen Miller: Move against migrants 'depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not'

(Newser) - Habeas corpus in the United States is used to tap into the federal court system to determine if the state's detention of a prisoner is legal. On Friday, a top White House adviser announced that the Trump administration is looking into suspending that writ for migrants, after a...

Judge: Trump Needs Congress' OK to Slash Federal Agencies

Temporary restraining order mandates much of the downsizing going on must stop for the moment

(Newser) - The Trump administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday. San Francisco Judge Susan Illston issued the emergency order in a lawsuit filed last week by labor unions and cities, one of multiple legal challenges to President Trump's efforts to...

White South Africans Take Trump Up on His Offer

Administration to fly in about 60 refugees on Monday after blocking other groups

(Newser) - The Trump administration plans to fly about 60 white South Africans to Washington on Monday, reviving only for them a program to admit people escaping war and political persecution that has been otherwise shut down. President Trump signed an executive order in February suggesting that "Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored...

NOAA Unplugs Its Climate Change Tracker

Agency says decades-old database to be archived, is no longer 'in alignment with evolving priorities'

(Newser) - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is retiring its public database that tracks the cost of losses from climate change-fueled weather disasters—including floods, heat waves, and wildfires—in the latest example of the Trump administration limiting federal government resources on climate change. NOAA falls under the US Department of...

2 Arrested After Woman's Neighbors Surround ICE Agents

One of those detained is the woman's 16-year-old daughter

(Newser) - Immigration and Customs Enforcement "targeted" an immigrant family in Worcester, Massachusetts, this week, an immigrant advocacy group says, and two people ended up arrested after attempting to intervene—including the family's 16-year-old daughter. Her father had already been detained by ICE on Wednesday, and agents returned to the...

Trump&#39;s FBI Budget Isn&#39;t Enough, Patel Testifies
Patel Reconsiders
Criticism of Trump Budget
updated
May 8, 2025 6:45 PM CDT

Patel Reconsiders Criticism of Trump Budget

A day later, director says FBI will carry on whatever the funding

(Newser) - On second thought, President Trump's proposed budget for the FBI might not be so bad, Kash Patel suggested on Thursday. The FBI director had made clear to a House panel the day before that the proposal cutting agency funding was Trump's, not his. Patel addressed the issue in...

Acting Chief Is Out After Defending FEMA's Existence

Trump, Noem have expressed differing views

(Newser) - The day after he broke with the Trump administration line on eliminating FEMA, the agency's acting boss was fired. Cameron Hamilton, who was appointed by President Trump, was called to Department of Homeland Security headquarters on Thursday and dismissed, Politico reports. He was then driven back to his Federal...

Administration Takes Deportation of 500K Migrants to Supreme Court

2-year program granted humanitarian parole to people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela

(Newser) - The Trump administration took its effort to remove more than 500,000 immigrants with temporary legal status to work and live in the US to the Supreme Court on Thursday. A judge had ruled that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem couldn't deport the group's humanitarian parole in one...

After Fed Move, Trump Slams 'Fool' Powell

President rails against decision not to cut interest rates

(Newser) - The Federal Reserve did not cut interest rates on Wednesday as President Trump wished, and Trump vented on Truth Social early Thursday about the head of the central bank:
  • "'Too Late'" Jerome Powell is a FOOL, who doesn't have a clue," Trump wrote . "Other
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US Strikes First Trade Deal, and Markets Are Happy

Trump says White House reached a trade agreement with the UK

(Newser) - The US and the UK have struck a deal on trade after President Trump's imposition of tariffs, the first of what could be dozens to follow, reports the Washington Post . Details are scant at the moment, but President Trump plans to address it at a 10am Eastern news conference....

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