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The US has a single rare earths mine. Chinese export limits are energizing a push for more

By JOSH FUNK
Apr 18, 2025 10:03 am - America’s only rare earths mine heard from anxious companies soon after China responded to President Donald Trump’s tariffs this month by limiting exports of those minerals used for military applications and in many high-tech devices.
Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return

By YOLANDA MAGAÑA and MARY CLARE JALONICK
Apr 17, 2025 9:05 pm - SAN SALVADOR — Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen met Thursday in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite...
Nearly 90% of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cut as Trump’s government downsizing continues

By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Apr 17, 2025 7:59 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is drastically shrinking the workforce and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, eviscerating an agency created after t...
US intelligence contradicts Trump’s justification for Alien Enemies Act deportations

By John Hudson and Warren P. Strobel
Apr 17, 2025 7:53 pm - The National Intelligence Council, drawing on the acumen of the United States’ 18 intelligence agencies, determined in a secret assessment early this month that the Venez...
Supreme Court will review Trump’s attempt to ban birthright citizenship

By MARK SHERMAN
Apr 17, 2025 7:09 pm - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday kept President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship on hold but agreed to hear arguments on the issue in May. ...
DHS demands records of Harvard’s foreign students, threatens enrollment

By Andrew Jeong
Apr 17, 2025 5:01 pm - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem on Wednesday demanded that Harvard University submit records before next month on foreign students alleged to have engaged in “...
Trump’s freeze on $2.2 billion to Harvard provided no proof of wrongdoing

By Ben Brasch and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
Apr 17, 2025 4:56 pm - Harvard University stands to lose billions in federal funding, but the government’s actions against one of the world’s top research institutions were applied with vague a...
GOP Sen. Murkowski on Trump’s sweeping changes: ‘We are all afraid’

By Theodoric Meyer Patrick Svitek
Apr 17, 2025 4:52 pm - Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) expressed serious concerns about the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce and other administration policies and said she is...
Trump officials’ defiance over Abrego Garcia’s deportation is ‘shocking,’ appeals court says

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Apr 17, 2025 4:25 pm - WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s claim that it can't do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. “should be shoc...
UN nuclear watchdog says US-Iran talks at a ‘very crucial’ stage

By JON GAMBRELL and AMIR VAHDAT
Apr 17, 2025 10:23 am - Talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program are “in a very crucial” stage, the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said Thursday while on a visit to the Islamic Republic.

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