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Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers say threat to deport him to Uganda is coercion

By Maria Sacchetti and Jeremy Roebuck
Aug 23, 2025 4:16 pm - The night before Kilmar Abrego García was set to be released from a Tennessee jail, federal prosecutors urged him to strike a deal: Plead guilty to two counts of human smuggling, serve his sentence, and be deported to Costa Rica, a tropical, Spanish-speaking refuge regarded as the safest country in Central America.When he declined the offer in favor of awaiting trial with his family in Maryland, officials threatened to deport him within days to Uganda, an African nation to which the State Department has discouraged travel because of the ongoing risk of terror attacks, his lawyers wrote in a filing Saturday detailing their account of those exchanges.
Fed Chair Powell faces fresh challenges to Fed independence amid potential rate cuts

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Aug 23, 2025 4:13 pm - Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he faces a new challenge: how to do it without seeming to cave to the White House's demands.For months, Powell has largely ignored President Donald Trump's constant hectoring that he reduce borrowing costs. Yet on Friday, in a highly-anticipated speech, Powell suggested that the Fed could take such a step as soon as its next meeting in September
Israeli strikes and gunfire kill 33 as Gaza City becomes focus of famine and a military offensive

By MARIAM DAGGA and SAMY MAGDY
Aug 23, 2025 2:59 pm - Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including people sheltering in tents or seeking scarce food, local hospitals said as a famine in Gaza’s largest city puts new pressure on Israel over its 22-month offensive.
Texas redistricting fight shakes up battle lines for both parties in key US Senate race

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, LEKAN OYEKANMI and THOMAS BEAUMONT
Aug 23, 2025 2:50 pm - Just as Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred was holding a town hall near the Mexican border as part of an “unrig Texas” campaign tour, the state’s Democratic fundraising powerhouse Beto O’Rourke rallied support in Austin for lawmakers who left the state to delay a redistricting plan led by President Donald Trump. The next morning, one of those wayward lawmakers, James Talarico, stood in the pulpit at former President Barack Obama’s old church in Chicago to say he and his fellow legislators had simply taken a leap of faith.
Kilauea’s eruption is back as the Hawaii volcano shoots lava for the 31st time since December

By AUDREY McAVOY
Aug 23, 2025 1:45 pm - Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display of molten rock since December, an appropriately high frequency for one of the world's most active volcanoes.
European postal services suspend shipment of packages to US over import tariffs

By DEMETRIS NELLAS and MAE ANDERSON
Aug 23, 2025 1:40 pm - The end of an exemption on tariff duties for low-value packages coming into the United States is causing multiple international postal services to pause shipping as they await more clarity on the rule.The exemption, known as the “de minimis” exemption, allows packages worth less than $800 to come into the U.S. duty free. A total of 1.36 billion packages were sent in 2024 under this exemption, for goods worth $64.6 billion, according to data from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Agency.
Lyle and Erik Menendez have been denied parole. What to know about their case

Aug 22, 2025 10:47 pm - LOS ANGELES — Lyle Menendez was denied parole Friday, a day after his younger brother Erik received the same recommendation by a California state board. Their separate he...
Judge blocks Trump from cutting funding to Chicago, other cities and counties over ‘sanctuary’ policies

By SUDHIN THANAWALA
Aug 22, 2025 10:43 pm - A judge ruled late Friday the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that l...
National Guard troops on DC streets for Trump's crackdown will start carrying guns

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, MATT BROWN and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Aug 22, 2025 8:10 pm - WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops to start carrying firearms while patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald T...
‘Stay out of our city’: Chicago officials slam Trump’s threat to target city in next crime crackdown

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO, JOHN O'CONNOR and MICHELLE L. PRICE
Aug 22, 2025 5:21 pm - CHICAGO — President Donald Trump on Friday said Chicago will likely be the next target of his efforts to crack down on crime, homelessness and illegal immigration. Trump ...

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