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In the news today: The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to use an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants, but they must get a court hearing first; China says it will 'fight to the end' after President Trump threatens more tariffs; and scientists genetically engineer wolves like the extinct dire wolf. Also, a close-up look at the hundreds of carnivorous plants on display in Colombia. |
Art depicting Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. and transferred to a prison in El Salvador after the U.S. alleged they were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, Caracas, Venezuela, April 2. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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Supreme Court allows Trump to deport Venezuelans under wartime law, but only after judges' review |
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to use an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants, but said they must get a court hearing before they are taken from the United States. Read more. |
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- In a bitterly divided decision, the court said the administration must give Venezuelans who it claims are gang members "reasonable time" to go to court. But the conservative majority said the legal challenges must take place in Texas, instead of a Washington courtroom.
The court's action appears to bar the administration from immediately resuming the flights that last month carried hundreds of migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The majority said nothing about those flights, which took off without providing the hearing the justices now say is necessary.
- In dissent, the three liberal justices said the administration has sought to avoid judicial review in this case and the court "now rewards the government for its behavior." Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined portions of the dissent.
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China says it will 'fight to the end' after Trump threatens to impose still more tariffs
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China said Tuesday it would "fight to the end" and take countermeasures against the United States to safeguard its own interests after President Donald Trump threatened an additional 50% tariff on Chinese imports. Read more. |
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Scientists genetically engineer wolves with white hair and muscular jaws like the extinct dire wolf |
Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an undisclosed secure location in the U.S., according to the company that aims to bring back lost species. Read more. |
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The wolf pups have long white hair, muscular jaws and already weigh in at around 80 pounds — on track to reach 140 pounds at maturity, researchers at Colossal Biosciences reported Monday. Dire wolves, which went extinct more than 10,000 years ago, are much larger than gray wolves, their closest living relatives today.
Though the pups may physically resemble young dire wolves, "what they will probably never learn is the finishing move of how to kill a giant elk or a big deer," because they won't have opportunities to watch and learn from wild dire wolf parents, said Colossal's chief animal care expert, Matt James.
- Colossal has previously announced similar projects to genetically alter cells from living species to create animals resembling extinct woolly mammoths, dodos and others.
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Drosera spatulata sits on display at a carnivorous plants exhibit at the Botanical Garden in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Hundreds of carnivorous plants on display lure in visitors in Colombia
With bright colors, deceptive shapes and sweet aromas, carnivorous plants lure insects only to catch and devour them. Nothing about them is accidental. Their beauty is the prelude to a deadly trap. Hundreds of the carnivorous plants were on display over the weekend at Bogota's botanical garden in an exhibit called "Let yourself be trapped." |
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