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Judge Orders Trump Administration to Return Maryland Man Deported to El Salvador

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Aishvarya Kavi and Alan Feuer
A federal judge said officials had acted without “legal basis” last month when they arrested the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, and put him on a plane to a notorious Salvadoran prison.

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Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura, who is married to Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, celebrated the judge’s decision on Friday with a cheering crowd of supporters.

Trump Rejects Proposal for Medicare to Cover Wegovy and Other Obesity Drugs

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Margot Sanger-Katz and Rebecca Robbins
Administration officials reversed a decision made during the Biden presidency that would have given millions of people access to weight-loss drugs paid for Medicare and Medicaid.

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A Biden proposal to expand coverage of the popular weight-loss drugs would have cost billions of dollars under Medicare and Medicaid.

How Guantánamo Bay Figures in the Trump Immigration Crackdown

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Carol Rosenberg
In two months, around 400 migrants have been held there, mostly Venezuelan and Nicaraguan citizens designated for deportation.

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The U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay has been staffed with 1,000 government workers, 900 of them members of the U.S. military and the rest immigration service agents or contractors. About 400 migrants have been held there over two months.

Supreme Court Lets Trump Suspend Grants to Teachers

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Adam Liptak and Abbie VanSickle
The justices allowed the Trump administration to temporarily suspend $65 million in teacher-training grants, which helped place teachers in poor and rural areas.

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The Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 ruling, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. voting with the liberal justices in dissent, amounted to an early victory for the Trump administration before the court.

Supreme Court Asked to Keep Pause on Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

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Abbie VanSickle
Immigrant groups and Democratic states pushed back on a Trump administration request for the Supreme Court to allow curbs on birthright citizenship to go into effect in some places.

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Rather than address the legality of curbing birthright citizenship, government lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on a long-simmering debate about a tool used by federal judges, the nationwide injunction.

Tracy Chapman Wants to Speak for Herself

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Lindsay Zoladz
For years, the singer and songwriter has avoided the spotlight. But she is breaking her silence to look back on her self-titled debut and its powerful hit “Fast Car.”

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“I think there’s some assumption with me that I’m coming out of the ’60s folk tradition,” Chapman said. “You can slot me in there, but it wasn’t my foundation. I wasn’t aware of that music in Cleveland in the ’70s, as a young Black girl.”

Theodore McCarrick, Cardinal Defrocked Over Sex Abuse, Dies at 94

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Robert D. McFadden
He rose in the Roman Catholic Church before allegations of abusing minors and seminarians and an investigation led Pope Francis to strip him of his priesthood.

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Theodore E. McCarrick in Rome in 2013. An investigation in 2018 concluded that he had molested a teenage altar server in 1971 and 1972, while he was a monsignor in New York City.

Appeals Court Orders Thousands of Voters to Verify Information in Contested N.C. Election

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Eduardo Medina and Nick Corasaniti
The ruling was a win for the Republican who narrowly lost a State Supreme Court race in November. The case has tested the boundaries of post-election litigation.

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Judge Jefferson Griffin’s legal argument centers on a claim that some 65,000 people who voted early or by mail in the State Supreme Court race did not provide required proof of identity.
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