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Congress is quiet as Trump, Musk take an ax to federal agencies

By Hannah Knowles, Colby Itkowitz and Liz Goodwin
Feb 05, 2025 6:36 pm - President Donald Trump’s administration launched one of its most brazen challenges yet to Congress’s authority this week when officials led by billionaire Elon Musk gutte...
Trump administration may allow local police to arrest immigrants

By Maria Sacchetti
Feb 05, 2025 4:16 pm - The Trump administration is considering deputizing state and local law enforcement to arrest suspected undocumented immigrants at traffic stops and other locations, resur...
The Oregon Zoo welcomes a new baby elephant

Feb 05, 2025 3:46 pm - PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Zoo in Portland has welcomed its newest addition, a baby elephant. Thirty-year-old Asian elephant Rose-Tu gave birth on Saturday after 20 mont...
U.S. won’t pay to rebuild Gaza or send troops, White House says

Michael Birnbaum
Feb 05, 2025 2:11 pm - The Trump administration does not intend to pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, nor has it made any commitment to send U.S. troops there, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday, offering clarifying details a day after President Donald Trump vowed to take over the territory and rebuild it.
Trump’s birthright citizenship order is put on hold by a second federal judge

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and MIKE CATALINI
Feb 05, 2025 1:19 pm - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second nationwide pause on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. to someone in the country illegally, calling citizenship a “most precious right.”
US officials now say Trump only wants to displace Palestinians from Gaza temporarily

By MATTHEW LEE
Feb 05, 2025 1:16 pm - President Donald Trump’s top diplomat and his main spokesperson on Wednesday walked back the idea that he wants the permanent relocation of Palestinians from Gaza, after American allies and even Republican lawmakers rebuffed his suggestion that the U.S. take “ownership” of the territory.
Rash of ICE impersonation follows Trump immigration crackdown, police say

Kyle Melnick
Feb 05, 2025 8:58 am - Police in South Carolina received a call last week reporting that a person was driving a vehicle without a license. But they later learned it was actually the caller who ...
Trump’s Gaza plan has stunned the region. Here’s a look at the serious obstacles it faces

By JOSEPH KRAUSS
Feb 05, 2025 8:53 am - President Donald Trump's stunning proposal to forcibly transfer hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip and develop it as a tourist destination faces major obstacles.
US Postal Service flip-flops on Hong Kong-China packages, lifting a ban imposed a day earlier

By ZEN SOO
Feb 05, 2025 8:48 am - The U.S. Postal Service is reversing course a day after placing a ban on all inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong.
Iran praises US for cutting foreign aid funding as it looks for a Trump message on nuclear talks

By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL
Feb 05, 2025 7:54 am - Iran's government seems to be welcoming some recent decisions by the United States — even though they happen to come from a man Iranian operatives have allegedly been plotting to assassinate.

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