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‘Carol,’ Whose Detention Rattled Her Small Missouri Town, Is Released

Ming Li Hui’s detention by the immigration authorities brought the reality of President Trump’s immigration crackdown to rural Missouri, where supporters rallied for her freedom.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Ming Li Hui, known to people in Kennett, Mo., as Carol, immigrated to the United States 20 years ago.
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U.S. Brings Back Guatemalan Wrongly Deported to Mexico

The Trump administration obeyed the instructions of the judge in the case, a significant departure from the defiant stance it has staked out in other immigration matters.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

A federal judge found that the Trump administration had violated an order barring officials from deporting immigrants to countries not their own without first giving them a “meaningful opportunity” to contest their removal.
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U.S. Is Trimming Back Its Collection of Consumer Price Data

The cutbacks would have “minimal impact,” the government said, but economists warned of reduced confidence in inflation data produced by a struggling statistical system.

© Graham Dickie/The New York Times

The Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Wednesday that it was reducing its collection of price data for goods and services, including grocery items.
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Marine heatwave found to have engulfed area of ocean five times the size of Australia

World Meteorological Organization report says record heat in 2024 was driven by climate crisis and intersected with extreme weather events

Almost 40 million sq kilometres of ocean around south-east Asia and the Pacific – an area five times the size of Australia – was engulfed in a marine heatwave in 2024, a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report has revealed.

WMO scientists said the record heat – on land and in the ocean – was mostly driven by the climate crisis and coincided with a string of extreme weather events, from deadly landslides in the Philippines to floods in Australia and rapid glacier loss in Indonesia.

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© Composite: Copernicus Climate Change Service and Mercator Ocean International

© Composite: Copernicus Climate Change Service and Mercator Ocean International

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Vermont Democrat slammed over ‘disturbing’ argument for more immigration: ‘We’re not going to have anyone around to wipe our a–es’

“If we don’t have avenues for people to come here legally to work or to build a home here, I’m going to be really crude right now — we’re not going to have anybody around to wipe our a–es because we don’t have enough people in our country now to fill the jobs that we...

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In Thailand, where mysticism thrives, AI fortune telling finds fertile ground

A growing number of young Thais are turning to AI tools such as ChatGPT for answers about their future

When Whan consulted her new fortune teller about the future of her relationship with her boyfriend, she was told that one half of the couple tended to be sulky, while the other would over-analyse things. The fortune teller recommended that they try to be more open with each other.

But the advice on the future of the relationship didn’t come from a human – it came from ChatGPT.

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© Composite: Ajarn Par

© Composite: Ajarn Par

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