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Why is Israel launching a crackdown in the West Bank after the Gaza ceasefire?

By JOSEPH KRAUSS
Jan 22, 2025 8:06 am - In the days since a fragile ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel has launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank and suspected Jewish settlers have rampaged through two Palestinian towns.
Davos 2025: Trade, tariffs, AI and UN chief Guterres dominate World Economic Forum agenda

By JAMEY KEATEN
Jan 22, 2025 8:03 am - The U.N. chief ratcheted up his warning about climate change and said the world's thirst for fossil fuels is a “Frankenstein monster" that spares no one, while calling for greater attention to risks posed by artificial intelligence if its ascent goes ungoverned.
Trump demands an apology from bishop who asked him to ‘have mercy’ on LGBTQ+ people and migrants

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, TIFFANY STANLEY and GARY FIELDS
Jan 22, 2025 8:00 am - President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she made a direct appeal to him during a prayer service marking his inauguration to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and migrant workers who are in the United States illegally.
Justice Department directs prosecutors to probe local efforts to obstruct immigration enforcement

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER
Jan 22, 2025 7:46 am - The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration, according to a memo to the entire workforce obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday.
‘Individual rights are under attack’: Pritzker, Illinois lawmakers assess Trump’s first two days

By Marni Pyke
Jan 21, 2025 5:51 pm - About 2,000 undocumented immigrants could be deported from Chicago, Gov. JB Pritzker says.
What’s next for EVs under President Trump?

By ALEXA ST. JOHN and MATTHEW DALY
Jan 21, 2025 3:49 pm - President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to eliminate what he labels “the electric vehicle mandate” imposed under former President Joe Biden.
Trump’s executive order gives TikTok a reprieve. What happens next?

By HALELUYA HADERO
Jan 21, 2025 3:37 pm - President Donald Trump has directed his Justice Department to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban until early April, but a host of questions remain — including whether Trump has the authority to issue such an order and if TikTok’s China-based parent would be amenable to selling the popular social media platform.
States sue to stop Trump’s order blocking birthright citizenship

By MIKE CATALINI
Jan 21, 2025 12:59 pm - Attorneys general from 18 states sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump's move to end a decades-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless of their parents’ status.
Trump White House celebrates release of two Americans freed in a swap with Taliban brokered by Biden

By ZEKE MILLER, JON GAMBRELL and AAMER MADHANI
Jan 21, 2025 11:17 am - A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges, officials said Tuesday.
Threat of immigration raids turns Chicago’s ‘Little Village’ into ghost town

By Miranda Davis, Alicia A. Caldwell and Daniela Sirtori
Jan 21, 2025 10:31 am - The second busiest retail corridor in Chicago is typically a bustling area dotted with taquerias and Mexican grocery stores in the southwestern part of the city. By Monday afternoon it had turned into a ghost town.

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