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In the news today: The Trump administration will not tell a federal court whether it has any plans to repatriate a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month despite a Supreme Court decision; Ecuadorian voters weary of crime have reelected President Daniel Noboa; and Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party moves toward disbandment. Also, restoration work has begun at the 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul to prevent earthquake damage. |
Supporters hold up signs supporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia, in Hyattsville, Md., April 4. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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US still won't say whether it will return mistakenly deported man, despite Supreme Court decision
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The Trump administration is doubling down on its decision not to tell a federal court whether it has any plans to repatriate a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month and remains confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador, despite a Supreme Court ruling and lower court order that the man should be returned to the United States. Read more. |
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- The U.S. district court judge handling the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is now weighing whether to grant a request from the man's legal team to compel the government to explain why it should not be held in contempt. Any move toward a contempt finding would represent an extraordinary turn in the Trump administration's assertion of presidential authority, both generally and specifically over immigration policy.
The government's latest daily status update, filed Sunday as required by Judge Paula Xinis, states essentially that the Trump administration has nothing to add beyond its Saturday statement that, for the first time, confirmed that Abrego Garcia, 29, was alive and remained in an El Salvador prison under the control of that country's government. That means for the second consecutive day, the administration has not addressed Xinis' demands that the administration detail what steps it was taking to return Abrego Garcia to the United States.
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Daniel Noboa is reelected Ecuador's president by voters weary of crime
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Ecuadorian voters weary of crime reelected President Daniel Noboa, a conservative young millionaire with a divisive no-holds-barred crime fighting record, by a wide margin Sunday, but his opponent vowed to seek a recount over what she described as "grotesque" electoral fraud. Read more. |
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Noboa, heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, is expected to continue applying some of his no-holds-barred crime fighting strategies that part of the electorate finds appealing but which have tested the limits of laws and norms of governing. González's defeat marks the third consecutive time that the party of Rafael Correa, the country's most influential president this century, failed to return to the presidency.
Voters were primarily worried about the violence that transformed the country, starting in 2021 — a spike in crime tied to the trafficking of cocaine produced in neighboring Colombia and Peru.
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Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party gets mandate to move closer to disbandment
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Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party on Sunday received its members' mandate to proceed with steps toward a potential disbandment, part of the erosion of political freedoms as China cracks down on dissent in the southern city. Read more. |
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An old African elephant named Bully gets the sole of its foot scrubbed at the Barcelona Zoo in Spain in March. (AP Photo/Hernan Muñoz)
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