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December 13, 2025
Appeals court pauses contempt hearings over administration's AEA deportations
December 12, 2025, 7:58 PM A federal appeals court on Friday granted an emergency motion sought by the Justice Department to pause contempt hearings that were scheduled to begin next week over the Trump administration's deportation of Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg last Monday ordered top DOJ attorney Drew Ensign and former DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni to testify next week as part of an inquiry into why the administration continued to transpor ...
Go to discussionSenior US Democrats urge release of Venezuela boat strike video
December 12, 2025 4:06 PM EST Updated 11 hours ago WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Democratic members of the "Gang of Eight" of U.S. congressional and intelligence committee leaders called on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Friday to make public the full, unedited video of the September 2 strikes on a suspected drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean. "As some of the few members of Congress who have seen the complete, unedited video of the strikes on September 2 against a ma ...
Go to discussionThe TSA is providing airline passenger data to ICE to aid Trump's deportation efforts, report says
Friday 12 December 2025 19:43 EST The Trump administration’s Transportation Security Administration is reportedly giving immigration officials details of all air travelers as part of the president’s push to carry out an unprecedented mass deportation campaign. As part of the program, the TSA shares the data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement multiple times per week, according to The New York Times. Individuals in the TSA data who were later found in ICE databases had a high rate of eve ...
Go to discussionTrump says 'starting' land strikes over drugs in latest warning
11h (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said the US would be “starting” land strikes on drug operations in Latin America, though again declined to provide details on when and where the escalation of his military campaign would actually begin, or if countries could still do anything to avert the threatened action. “We knocked out 96% of the drugs coming in by water, and now we’re starting by land, and by land is a lot easier, and that’s going to start happening,” Trump told reporters Friday ...
Go to discussionTransportation Department threatens $73M for New York's highways over commercial driver's licenses
12/12/25 3:19 PM ET ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) -- The federal government ordered New York to stop granting trucking licenses to foreign drivers or lose millions of dollars in highway aid. Transportation officials said their review found that the state is likelier to break the law than to follow it when issuing "non-domiciled" commercial driver's licenses (CDLs). Non-domiciled CDLs are special permits for those who live in other countries or have temporary legal status in the U.S. and dr ...
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