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From deportation to court, key events in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's fight with the Trump administration
SUMMARY: Kilmar Abrego Garcia entered the news in March 2025 after he was deported to El Salvador despite a court ruling that should have prevented it. His complicated legal fight since then has galvanized both sides of the debate over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. There is a civil case in Maryland where he has been challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s attempts to deport him to a series of African countries. There is also a criminal case in Tennessee, where the government accuses him of human smuggling. He has pleaded not guilty and asked that the case be dismissed, claiming it was only brought to punish him.
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Federal judge rules Kilmar Abrego Garcia can’t be re-detained by immigration authorities
SUMMARY: A federal judge has ruled that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the U.S. government has no viable plan for deporting him. The Salvadoran national’s case has become a focal point in the immigration debate after he was mistakenly deported to his home country last year. Since his return, he has been fighting a second deportation to a series of African countries proposed by Department of Homeland Security officials. Abrego Garcia has an American wife and child and has lived in Maryland for years, but he immigrated to the U.S. illegally as a teenager.
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Trump is recruiting thousands of local officers to aid immigration effort. Some states are saying no
SUMMARY: New laws in some Democratic-led states are forcing local sheriffs to stop cooperating with President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement efforts. A law signed Tuesday by Maryland Gov. Wes Moore prohibits arrangements in which local law officers interrogate and detain people for U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement. New Mexico's governor signed a similar law earlier this month. And 10 Democratic-led states now have similar policies. The sheriff of Frederick County, Maryland, says it will force him to end a program that has turned over 1,884 inmates to ICE custody over the past 18 years.
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New Jersey Catholic diocese agrees to $180 million settlement of clergy sexual abuse allegations
SUMMARY: A New Jersey Catholic diocese this week agreed to a $180 million settlement to resolve allegations of clergy sexual abuse, a figure far exceeding agreements in some large dioceses though still dwarfed by other massive settlements. Bishop Joseph Williams of the Diocese of Camden, covering southern New Jersey and its Philadelphia suburbs, announced the settlement Tuesday in a letter. Greg Gianforcaro, one of the attorneys representing victims suing the diocese, credited survivors’ persistence in reaching the agreement. The New Jersey settlement agreement is more than the roughly $80 million settlements in Boston and Philadelphia. In 2024, the Los Angeles Archdiocese agreed to an $880 million payment.
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Trump administration is erasing history and science at national parks, lawsuit argues
SUMMARY: Conservation and historical organizations are suing the Trump administration over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and science from America’s national parks. A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Boston says orders by President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum have forced park service staff to remove or censor exhibits that share factually accurate and relevant U.S. history and scientific knowledge, including slavery and climate change. The suit after a federal judge ordered Monday that an exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington must be restored at his former home in Philadelphia. The Interior Department says it is appealing the ruling.
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Trump administration appeals order to restore George Washington slavery exhibit in Philadelphia
SUMMARY: The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge’s order to restore a Philadelphia exhibit on the nine people enslaved by George Washington at his former home on Independence Mall. The Justice Department insists the administration alone can decide what stories are told at National Park Service properties. The city and other supporters of the exhibit filed a lawsuit after Park Service workers last month abruptly removed exhibits from the site. U.S. Senior Judge Cynthia Rufe, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, on Monday ordered the materials to be restored while the lawsuit proceeds. She also compared President Donald Trump's administration to the totalitarian regime in George Orwell's dystopian novel “1984."
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Giancarlo Stanton thinks Yankees career incomplete without World Series title
SUMMARY: Giancarlo Stanton says his Yankees tenure feels unfinished because he has not won a championship. Now 36 and entering the final two guaranteed seasons of a $325 million, 13-year contract he signed with the Miami Marlins, Stanton has gone on the injured list in seven consecutive seasons but has been a force when healthy. After missing New York’s first 70 games because of inflammation in the tendons of both elbows last year, he hit .273 with 24 homers, 66 RBIs and a .944 OPS in 77 games.
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Japan’s Ami Nakai surges into Olympic lead after short program as US struggles at the Winter Games
SUMMARY: Japan has upstaged the United States in the short program of the women's figure skating competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics. Ami Nakai and teammate Kaori Sakamoto were 1-2 in the standings Tuesday night, while Alysa Liu of the U.S. was third. Nakai rode her opening triple axel to a career-best 78.71 points, while Sakamoto was right behind with 77.23 as she chases just about the only gold medal she has yet to win. Things didn’t go quite so well for the rest of the American team. Isabeau Levito was eighth, and U.S. champ Amber Glenn was 13th.
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Alysa Liu surges into medal range as US teammates stumble in Olympic short program
SUMMARY: Alysa Liu is left to carry the hopes of the United States into the women’s free skate at the Milan Cortina Olympics. The reigning world champion delivered a stellar short program that featured a triple lutz-triple loop. That was the hardest combination that any woman tried Tuesday night, and she sat two points back of Japan’s Ami Nakai and right behind Kaori Sakamoto on the leaderboard. Things didn’t go nearly as well for the rest of the American team in the individual event. Isabeau Levito was in eighth place, and U.S. champion Amber Glenn fell to 13th even after she landed a triple axel.
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Doug Moe, the rumpled, irreverent coach of the high-scoring Denver Nuggets, dies at 87
SUMMARY: The rumpled and irreverent basketball coach Doug Moe has died. Moe's son, David, informed friends of the coach's death after a long bout with cancer and one of those friends, longtime Denver sportscaster Ron Zappolo, confirmed Moe's death to The Associated Press. Moe was an All-American at North Carolina who played in the ABA. He went on to coach the high-scoring Denver Nuggets in the 1980s as well as San Antonio and Philadelphia. He was the coach of the year in 1988. Moe’s trademark was his motion offense. He could also excoriate players but later hang with them at the bar or coffee shop, wondering where that foul-mouthed man on the sideline had come from. Doug Moe was 87.
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Sidney Crosby leaves Canada's quarterfinal game vs. Czechia at the Olympics with injury
SUMMARY: Sidney Crosby has left Canada's Olympic quarterfinal game against Czechia because of injury with his return uncertain. Crosby got crunched against the boards by Martin Necas and Radko Gudas five minutes into the second. Crosby also took consecutive big hits from Ondrej Palat and Gudas earlier in the period. The 38-year-old two-time Olympic gold medalist took one stride after the play with Necas and Gudas before leaving the ice for the bench. Crosby was in noticeable pain and received medical attention there before limping off the bench and down the tunnel.
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