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Trump administration reverses course on terminating thousands of foreign student visa registrations

The Trump administration on Friday restored thousands of visa registrations for foreign students who had either a minor or dismissed legal infraction. The Justice Department announced the decision in federal court, according to the news outlet Politico. The administration last month abruptly decided to remove foreign students from a federal database used by universities to track foreign students.  Students were concerned they lost their immigration...

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Teens’ night of rock throwing leads to murder conviction for 1 of them

Three Denver-area teens cheered each other during a night of throwing rocks at cars — until one of the stones crashed through a windshield and killed a woman, leading to a murder conviction Friday after the trio turned on one another. Jurors found Joseph Koenig guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Alexa Bartell on April 19, 2023, after the other young men riding with him reached deals with prosecutors and testified against him. Koenig, now 20, was also convicted of attempted...

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Who is Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee judge arrested by the FBI?

Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee County judge arrested Friday by the FBI for allegedly obstructing federal authorities who were seeking to detain an undocumented immigrant, was a longtime social justice advocate before she took the bench. A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security suggested in a statement that Dugan is an “activist judge.” A statement issued on the judge’s behalf following her dramatic arrest said Dugan “has committed herself to the rule of law and...

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Hegseth trying to show Trump he's a fighter amid chaos in Pentagon

Pete Hegseth wants Donald Trump to see him as a fighter amid the negative stories swirling around the defense secretary, two U.S. officials told NBC News, and has been focusing more on public and television appearances — including on his old network, Fox News — in which he can speak directly to the president. Trump had told Hegseth during a recent phone call that he did not approve of his texting information about airstrikes in Yemen to a Signal group that...

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Education Department launches foreign funding probe into UC Berkeley

The Department of Education said Friday it would launch an investigation into the University of California (UC), Berkeley, over improper foreign funding disclosures. The department said the school may have violated Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, alleging that documents submitted to the department on the school’s behalf were “incomplete or inaccurate,” according to a Friday release...