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Immigration Officials Used Shadowy Pro-Israel Group to Target Student Activists

A senior Homeland Security official testified in court on Wednesday that his department had relied in part on an anonymously compiled list to identify foreign academics for investigation.

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Peter Hatch, the assistant director of the Homeland Security Investigations department within ICE, testified that a team he oversaw had been directed to pore over the thousands of individuals profiled by the Canary Mission, an anonymous group that has been accused of doxxing individuals engaged in anti-Israeli activism.

Rubio Visits Asia as Trump Raises Trade-War Tensions

Secretary of State Marco Rubio talks about countering China as it expands its global influence. But President Trump’s tariff threats have created friction with U.S. partners.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio arriving at Subang Air Base outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Thursday.

Lawmakers in Liberal States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces

Elected officials in New York and California are trying to upend President Trump’s deportation campaign by banning law enforcement officers from wearing masks in public.

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Masked federal agents wait in hallways outside immigration courtrooms in Lower Manhattan and detain immigrants after court hearings.

Yemen’s Houthi Militia Took Sailors Hostage After Red Sea Attack, U.S. Says

The Yemeni militia, backed by Iran, said it had sunk a Liberian-flagged cargo ship in the Red Sea. Liberia said the attack killed two crew members.

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An image released by Diaplous, a maritime security organization, shows crew members being rescued after an attack in the Red Sea. Eunavfor Aspides, a European Union military operation, said on Wednesday that it had rescued six castaway crew members of the cargo ship Eternity C.

James Comey Tracked by Secret Service After Post Critical of Trump

After the former F.B.I. director put a picture on Instagram of seashells arranged to say “86 47,” law enforcement tailed his car and tracked his cellphone, steps usually reserved for serious threats.

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James B. Comey in 2019. President Trump fired him as F.B.I. director in May 2017, amid the agency’s investigation into possible collusion between Mr. Trump’s campaign and the Russian government.

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea Is Arrested on New Charges

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol, already ​accused of insurrection, faced additional ​criminal charges after a special counsel expanded the investigation into his ill-fated declaration of martial law.

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Yoon Suk Yeol, former president of South Korea, arrived in court in Seoul on Wednesday for a hearing to address a new arrest warrant requested by a special prosecutor.

Supreme Court Won’t Revive Aggressive Florida Immigration Law

The law, enacted this year, made it a crime for unauthorized migrants to enter the state. Challengers say immigration is a federal matter.

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At least six other states have similar laws. Every court to consider them has blocked them, relying on a 2012 Supreme Court decision endorsing broad federal power over immigration.

A British Surgeon Shares What She Saw in Gaza’s Hospitals

A British surgeon described what she saw in the territory, treating people who’d been shot trying to get food and children with life-changing injuries from Israeli bombs.

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Dr. Victoria Rose at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza in May, in a picture distributed by Anadolu Agency, a Turkish state news outlet. “I’ve not seen this volume and this intensity before,” she said of the traumatic injuries she treated.
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