POLITICS

Supreme Court temporarily blocks new deportations under Alien Enemies Act

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday temporarily blocked the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th-century wartime law. In a brief order, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center “until further order from this court.” Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.

2 Pentagon officials fired amid sweeping leak investigation

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Third Pentagon official put on leave Third top Pentagon official put on leave pending leak investigation 01:56 The week of turmoil affecting the Pentagon’s inner circle continued Friday, when two political appointees suspended earlier this week were terminated, multiple officials told CBS News.  Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, ordered an

Assessing Trump’s Diplomatic Juggling Act. Plus, How Anti-Semites Hijacked a Top Scholarly Journal.

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The art of the deal: Most presidents, the Hudson Institute’s Mike Watson writes, “implement only a handful of initiatives at a time that usually only become public knowledge once they have matured.” Not Trump. “I never get too attached to one deal or one approach,” he wrote in Art of the Deal. “I keep a