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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, center, leaves the Putnam County Jail, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Cookeville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brett Carlsen)

Abrego Garcia, free again, faces new Monday arrest deadline

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, released from jail Friday, now faces a new Monday deadline to check in with ICE, where the government has told him he could face a quick deportation to Uganda -- a country to which his lawyers say he has no ties.

August 24, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, center, leaves the Putnam County Jail, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Cookeville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brett Carlsen)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is freed from custody

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal immigrant the government says is a dangerous MS-13 migrant smuggler and whom Democrats say is a wronged "Maryland man," has been released from custody under orders from two federal judges.

August 23, 2025
This photo provided by the National Institutes of Health shows the James H. Shannon Building on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md., in 2015. (Lydia Polimeni/NIH via AP)

Supreme Court clears way for Trump to cancel DEI grants at NIH

The Supreme Court issued a mixed ruling Thursday for President Trump, finding that the administration went too far in its new rules barring NIH from approving research grants with diversity, equity and inclusion principles -- but allowing the agency to plow ahead with the grants it already terminated.

August 21, 2025
A military aircraft waits for migrants to board from a bus at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, before deporting them to Guatemala. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

Crackdown on border cuts court backlog: Trump eliminates de facto amnesty

President Trump took the adage about finding yourself in a hole and stopping digging to heart -- at least when it comes to illegal immigration, where his almost miraculous improvements at the southern border have resulted in the first sustained decrease in the immigration court backlog in nearly two decades.

August 17, 2025
Brian Schwalb, attorney general for the District of Columbia, center, speaks outside the federal courthouse, Sept. 3, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Lindsay Whitehurst, File)

D.C. attorney general sues to stop Trump’s police takeover

Brian L. Schwalb, the attorney general for the District of Columbia, asked a federal judge Friday to issue a restraining order against President Trump to block his takeover of the police department, saying it violates the home rule charter Congress granted to the city.

August 15, 2025
Agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection as well as Metropolitan Police wait in a parking lot before driving along Kennedy Street NW in a caravan, in the early morning of Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in northwest Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

D.C. police to start limited cooperation with ICE

The Metropolitan Police Department will now be allowed to report illegal immigrants they encounter to federal deportation authorities under a new order issued Thursday by Chief Pamela A. Smith that breaks with the District's longstanding status as a migrant sanctuary.

August 14, 2025