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Christopher Kinnison, who owns a one-man law firm in the central Louisiana, is "tired of losing.”. His clients are among the thousands of people who had been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after President Trump took office.
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Most of immigration lawyer Christopher Kinnison’s clients in rural Louisiana are detainees. Every week, more calls come in, and Kinnison hasn’t been able to process what his days at work are becoming.
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Missouri’s Sam Horn wants to play both football and baseball for as long as possible. The business of modern college sports is making that easier.
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Missouri’s Sam Horn wants to play both football and baseball for as long as possible. The business of modern college sports is making that easier.
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San Diego Bishop Michael Pham, the first U.S. bishop picked by Pope Leo, is part of a new wave of clerical leaders speaking out about migrants’ rights.
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San Diego Bishop Michael Pham, the first U.S. bishop picked by Pope Leo, is part of a new wave of clerical leaders speaking out about migrants’ rights.
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Analysis by Karen Tumulty: While President Trump has moved away from some of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s positions, there has been little tangible progress in ending the war in Ukraine.
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While Trump has moved away from some of Putin’s positions, there has been little tangible progress in ending the war in Ukraine.
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Elvira and Kyrylo lost parents during Russia’s war on Ukraine. While coping with their trauma, they learned how to be kids again.
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Elvira and Kyrylo lost parents during Russia’s war on Ukraine. While coping with their trauma, they learned how to be kids again.
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Faced with a prison overcrowding issue, Britain’s Justice Ministry said that judges in England and Wales will be able to hand down alternative punishments for some convicted criminals, such as bans from going to the pub and attending soccer matches.
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The British government wants to allow judges to hand out “community punishments” to certain offenders as part of an effort to reduce overcrowding in prisons.
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Vice President JD Vance said he still believes the administration can broker peace between Ukraine and Russia, despite the seeming lack of progress since President Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin this month in Alaska.
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Vice President JD Vance contends that the United States has “seen some significant concessions from both sides” in the war between Ukraine and Russia.
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President Trump’s new chief design officer Joe Gebbia, an Elon Musk ally who also worked for DOGE, says he wants to overhaul the interface of government websites to make them more beautiful and less complicated to use — like a visit to the Apple Store.
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Joe Gebbia, an Elon Musk ally who also worked for DOGE, said navigating dot-gov websites should be just as easy as visiting the Apple Store.
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Finger claps have quietly taken over a swath of pop culture in the past year. As more people embrace it, the queer ballroom scene is clapping back at those unaware of its origin and meaning.
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As more people embrace finger claps, the queer ballroom scene is clapping back at those unaware of its origin and meaning.
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Emma Maria Mazzenga, 92, is an elite sprinter. She holds four world records for women over 90. Scientists in Italy and the U.S. are now studying Mazzenga’s muscles, nerves and even her mitochondria to better understand how she’s able to keep running.
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Emma Maria Mazzenga, 92, holds four world records for women over 90. Now, researchers are trying to understand the secret to her success.
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President Trump threatened to send troops to Baltimore and called the city “out of control” in a Truth Social post responding to Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s (D) invitation to join city officials to walk the streets and discuss public safety in September.
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Trump and Gov. Wes Moore (D) have traded barbs over Maryland’s largest city in recent days as the president’s intervention in D.C. escalates.
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An analysis of U.S. weather data shared with The Post shows which places are experiencing notably longer summer seasons than they were three decades ago. Check here to see how much longer summer is in your town:
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The hottest stretch of the year is expanding beyond any calendar definition of summer. See what regions are experiencing the biggest change.
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The Trump administration’s decision to eliminate billions of dollars in research funding to Harvard and elsewhere, could disrupt the science pipeline and threaten experiments targeting cancer, autism, quantum physics, military robotics and more.
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More than 700 graduate students and nearly 800 postdoctoral researchers at Harvard get salaries, stipends or tuition support from federally funded research.
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Exclusive: The Pentagon has been planning a military deployment to Chicago as President Donald Trump says he wants to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, in a model that could later be used in other major cities.
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President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.
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Since President Trump declared a crime emergency in D.C., ordered a federal takeover of the police force and sent in the National Guard, videos coming from the White House and the public offer split-screen narratives about what is happening in the city.
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Videos coming from the White House and the public offer split-screen narratives in the weeks since President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in the city.
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Busy parents are turning to AI-powered apps to manage the logistics of family life. Using technology to manage the mental load can be tempting. But it’s not a cure-all, experts say.
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Some busy parents are adopting AI apps that help with meal-planning or parenting to reduce the mental load and arguments that come with running a household.
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President Trump is signaling that he would step back for now from efforts to reach a Ukraine peace deal. “I’m not happy about anything about that war. Nothing. Not happy at all,” Trump told reporters Friday.
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The president, who had said a deal to end the war could be reached soon, expressed frustration over lack of progress and signaled he would pause his efforts.
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As part of a $600 million slash to teacher-training grants, the Education Department took a $21 million award North Carolina had planned to use to provide bonuses and training officials hoped would lure and retain teachers.
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A cut to federal grants for teacher merit pay and training has left Montgomery County in North Carolina with fewer teachers and fewer resources to attract them.
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Republican state lawmakers early Saturday approved an unusual mid-decade redraw of the U.S. House districts in Texas, adding five red seats on a new map that President Trump advocated. Democrats have repeatedly promised to “fight fire with fire.”
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After Texas and California, the legislative action in a nationwide redistricting battle is set to move to Missouri and three other Republican-led states.
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Vertical streaming apps are beating Netflix, Hulu and Paramount+ in user growth by peddling series like “Secret Surrogate to the Mafia King” and “Pregnant by My Ex’s Professor Dad” to audiences in the hundreds of millions.
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Streaming apps that charge $20 a week for absurd, 60-second soap operas are winning audiences that rival Hulu and Paramount+.
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