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ICE Must Allow Lawmakers to Inspect Detention Centers, Judge Rules

Judge Jia M. Cobb wrote that two policies announced in June appeared to unlawfully bar members of Congress from making unannounced visits at immigration detention facilities.

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Federal agents outside Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark in June. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has curbed access to its detention centers and required seven days’ notice for lawmakers seeking entry.
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House Rejects Measure to Bar Strikes Inside Venezuela

The Democratic measure was defeated mostly along party lines, along with another resolution that would have halted the military’s escalating campaign of boat attacks.

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U.S. military aircraft in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on Tuesday. For months, the U.S. military has been building up a large naval force there as President Trump continues to threaten to attack Venezuela.
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Jack Smith Defends Trump Prosecutions in House Deposition

Even adversaries of Jack Smith, the former special counsel, conceded that his tight-lipped, painstaking approach made tripping him up particularly difficult.

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Jack Smith, the former special counsel, during a break in a closed-door deposition with the House Judiciary Committee.
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Fani Willis Calls Trump and Allies ‘Criminals’ in Hearing Before Georgia Senate Committee

The district attorney in Atlanta addressed a Republican-led committee created to investigate her conduct during her prosecution of President Trump last year.

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District Attorney Fani T. Willis assailed Republican adversaries and stumped for political allies at the hearing on Wednesday.
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Trump attacks Democratic foes in White House presidential portraits

New plaques on ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ scorn ‘divisive’ Obama and ‘by far the worst’ Biden – but Reagan is praised

White House officials on Wednesday revised what they call the “Presidential Walk of Fame,” installing plaques beneath portraits of former presidents that reflect Donald Trump’s own views, including branding former president Joe Biden as “the worst president in American history”.

The changes are part of Trump’s broader effort to reshape the White House environment to match his preferences. Along the colonnade, portraits of past presidents now feature expanded text that permanently records Trump’s assessments of their records.

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© Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

© Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

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MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’

Exclusive: UK government’s ‘naive belief’ that Trump is a good faith actor ‘could cost UK taxpayer billions’, says health select committee chair

Ministers and senior MPs have warned that the UK’s agreements with Donald Trump are “built on sand” after the Guardian established that the deal to avoid drug tariffs has no underlying text beyond limited headline terms.

The “milestone” US-UK deal announced this month on pharmaceuticals, which will mean the NHS pays more for medicines in exchange for a promise of zero tariffs on the industry, still lacks a legal footing beyond top lines contained in two government press releases.

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© Photograph: Leon Neal/Reuters

© Photograph: Leon Neal/Reuters

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Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship

An official with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it would prioritize “those who’ve unlawfully obtained U.S. citizenship.”

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A naturalization ceremony in Boston in August. The Trump administration has been closing loopholes in the immigration system and throwing up roadblocks for people seeking to enter and stay in the country.
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Nearly $900 Million Flowed in Secret to Help Harris and Trump in 2024

The main dark-money group backing Kamala Harris and Joe Biden raised a staggering $613 million last year, while its pro-Trump counterpart brought in $275 million, new filings show.

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Both Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris benefited heavily from so-called dark money in 2024, but Democrats leaned more on the practice of funneling money through nonprofit groups that do not have to disclose their donors.
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