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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at the start of a signing ceremony at the Palacio Nacional de la Cultura, in Guatemala City, Thursday, June 26, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool Photo via AP)

US completes deportation of 8 men to South Sudan after weeks of legal wrangling

Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenge played out in court have now reached the Trump administration’s intended destination, war-torn South Sudan.

Shiite faithful pilgrims light candles outside the holy shrine of Imam Hussein during a Muharram procession marking Ashoura, to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in Karbala, Iraq, Sunday, July 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Shiite pilgrims commemorate Ashoura in Karbala, Iraq, under tight security

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer listens during a briefing, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Judge briefly blocks immigrants’ deportation to South Sudan, but legal path eventually cleared

People displaced by the fighting with M23 rebels make their way to the center of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

UN experts say Rwanda supported rebels in Congo and smuggled minerals at ‘unprecedented levels’

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., right, of Mexico, talks with his father, legendary boxer Julio Cesar Chavez, left, at a news conference to promote his upcoming middleweight championship boxing match with Sergio Martinez, of Argentina, in Los Angeles, July 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Mexico President Sheinbaum hopes deported boxer Chávez Jr. will serve time in Mexico

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President Donald Trump says letters will be sent to countries around the world, starting Friday, notifying them about the U.S. tariff rates that they will face.

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Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought testifies during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the rescissions package on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Senators challenge Trump’s proposed cuts to foreign aid and public media in contentious hearing

The Treasury Department building is seen, March 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

US blocks money transfers by 3 Mexico-based financial institutions accused of aiding cartels

Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the President's Fiscal Year 2026 Budget on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Trump administration sues all 15 Maryland federal judges over order blocking removal of immigrants

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Flagpoles line in rows in front of a building of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

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Former Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts hosts a campaign event, Sept. 7, 2023, in Rye, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, file)

Former Republican US Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts seeks to succeed Shaheen in New Hampshire

President Donald Trump speaks during a media conference at the end of the NATO summit as Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio, right, and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth listen, in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says US would protect NATO allies, recognizing that ‘they love their countries’

Workers clear rubble of a damaged building, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, after an Israeli strike on early Tuesday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Trump says US and Iranian officials will talk next week as ceasefire holds

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Electric vehicle chargers sit outside a Ford dealership, Jan. 21, 2024, in Broomfield, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Federal judge orders Trump administration to release EV charger funding in 14 states

President Donald Trump arrives for a formal dinner at the Huis Ten Bosch Palace during the NATO Summit in The Hauge, Netherlands on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

This is what could happen next after an Israel-Iran ceasefire

Demonstrators hold signs during a protest against deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thursday, June 12, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Court orders Trump administration to facilitate another deported man’s return from El Salvador

Palestinians carry sacks and boxes of food and humanitarian aid unloaded from a World Food Program convoy that had been heading to Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Trump administration authorizes $30 million for Israeli-backed group distributing food in Gaza

President Donald Trump speaks to the media in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Washington, as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, look on. ( (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Lawsuit challenges billions of dollars in Trump administration funding cuts

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer listens during a briefing, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to clear the way for a South Sudan-bound deportation flight

Officials say a US citizen in the Dominican Republic awaiting deportation was found dead in her cell

Congressman Al Green seeks to impeach Trump over Iran strikes

Emil Bove, attorney for then former President Donald Trump, attends Manhattan criminal court during Trump's sentencing in the hush money case in New York, Jan. 10, 2025. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via AP, File)

Trump judicial nominee suggested ignoring court orders on deportations, whistleblower claims

This courtroom sketch depicts Kilmar Abrego Garcia sitting in court during his detention hearing on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (Diego Fishburn via AP)

What to know after judge keeps Kilmar Abrego Garcia in jail over deportation fears

Meteorologist explains heat dome that’s expected to bring record-breaking temperatures to Northeast

A woman looks at products in the aisle of a store as her daughter naps in the shopping cart in Waco, Texas, on Dec. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

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Front row from left, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, US President Donald Trump, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, poses for a family photo at the 2025 NATO summit in The Hague, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (Haiyun Jiang/Pool Photo via AP)

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Hamam Al-Farani sits next to his sister, in white, along with other family members as the body of their father Alaa, killed in an Israeli army strike that also injured the boy, is prepared for burial at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Gaza health authorities say Israel kills 44 waiting for aid as war’s death toll passes 56,000

A general view shows Tehran skyline, Iran Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Ceasefire between Israel and Iran appears to hold as Trump vents frustration with both sides

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Sunday, June 22, 2025, after the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel's effort to destroy the country's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump administration postpones classified briefings for lawmakers on Iran

President Donald Trump, center right, and Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, center left, attend a dinner for NATO heads of state and government at the Paleis Huis ten Bosch ahead of the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (Remko de Waal, Pool Photo via AP)

Trump says whether he’ll commit to NATO mutual defense guarantee ‘depends on your definition’

A bicyclist walks by Langdell Hall, the Harvard Law Library, on the Harvard Law School campus at Harvard University, Aug. 1, 2005, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Judge halts another Trump administration effort to block foreign students from attending Harvard

This undated photo provided by Alejandro Barranco, shows members of the Barranco family, from left to right; Emanuel Barranco, Alejandro Barranco, Narciso Barranco and Jose Luis Barranco. (Alejandro Barranco via AP)

Marine veteran says Border Patrol agents beat his dad, while agency says he swung trimmer at them

Wrangler Doug Washburn, of Crested Butte, Colo. overlooks aspen trees with their autumn colors, near Jacks Cabin in the Slate River Valley near Crested Butte, Colo. while gathering the Spann cattle from the U.S. National Forest lands, Oct. 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Nathan Bilow, File)

Trump administration plans to rescind rule blocking logging on national forest lands

Early-season heat dome brings highest temperatures in years to parts of Eastern US