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Rumeysa Ozturk, a  graduate student at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was taken into custody by federal agents near her home Tuesday, March 25, 2025, according to her lawyer.

What we know about the Tufts University PhD student detained by federal agents

Gloria Pazmino and Andy Rose March 27, 2025

(CNN) — As the sun began to set Tuesday over Somerville, Massachusetts, Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk was on her way to meet friends at an Iftar dinner where they would break their Ramadan fast. But...

National security adviser Michael Waltz, Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, listen to a question from a reporter during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, in Washington, DC.

‘Nobody is above the law’: Trump officials who criticized Clinton’s emails now under scrutiny for leaked war plans

Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN March 25, 2025

(CNN) — Several top Trump administration officials are facing scrutiny for sending detailed operational plans and other likely highly classified information about US military strikes on Yemen to...

President of World Athletics Sebastian Coe looks on during the Paris Grand Slam judo tournament in February.

World Athletics plans pre-clearance testing of female category track and field athletes

Thomas Schlachter, CNN March 25, 2025

(CNN) — World Athletics plans to introduce biological pre-clearance tests for track and field athletes before they can compete in the female category, the sport’s governing body announced Tuesday. These...

President Donald Trump listens to a reporter's question in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 25 in Washington, DC.

Trump stands by Waltz as the president and his allies deploy a familiar playbook

Washington (CNN) —President Donald Trump not only stood by his embattled national security adviser on Tuesday, amid fever-pitch conversations about Mike Waltz’s fate in the wake of an extraordinary...

Palestinians leave Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip with their belongings, heading towards Gaza City following Israeli evacuation orders on March 19.

Israel approves controversial proposal to facilitate emigration of Palestinians from Gaza

(CNN) — Israel’s security cabinet has approved a controversial proposal to facilitate Palestinian emigration from Gaza, a move critics warn could amount to ethnic cleansing. Israeli Finance Minister...

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Stocks rally as Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ is looking like yet another tariff retreat

David Goldman, CNN March 24, 2025

New York (CNN) — For more than a month, President Donald Trump and his administration have been promoting April 2 as a kind of tariffs Super Bowl, during which all of his many promised import taxes...

FEMA rescue workers search a flood-damaged area along the Swannanoa River in Asheville, North Carolina, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene last October.

As Trump works to cut FEMA, data shows there was a major disaster declaration every four days in 2024

Lauren Kent and Ella Nilsen, CNN March 24, 2025

(CNN) — Deanne Criswell has spent years sounding the alarm about busier disaster seasons. Just days before the former chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency stepped down at the end of the...

Israeli soldiers operate tanks near the southern border with Gaza on Wednesday, March 19.

Hamas fires rockets at Israel for first time since truce collapses as toll mounts in Gaza

Dana Karni and Kareem Khadder March 20, 2025

(CNN) — Hamas fired rockets at Israel from Gaza Thursday, the militant group’s first response to Israel’s renewed offensive in the Strip that shattered the two-month-old ceasefire. Three projectiles...

Community members rally in front of the Department of Education with school desks to protest budget cuts on March 13 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump is poised to sign an executive order on Thursday to start the process of dismantling the Department of Education.

Trump to sign order Thursday to begin dismantling of Education Department

Jeff Zeleny and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN March 20, 2025

(CNN) —President Donald Trump is poised to sign an executive order on Thursday to start the process of dismantling the Department of Education, two administration officials told CNN, a move that will...

People protest outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility after reports circulated that migrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra had been taken into custody by federal agents, in Aurora, Colorado, on Tuesday.

ICE defends arrest of high-profile undocumented mother of 4 as outraged supporters rally for her release

(CNN) — An undocumented mother of four who became a symbol of resistance as she fought for immigrant rights during the first Trump administration is now in federal custody, stoking fear and turmoil...

A Palestinian woman sits on the rubble of her house, destroyed in an Israeli strike, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on March 18.

Israel has resumed the war in Gaza. Why now?

Mick Krever, CNN March 19, 2025

(CNN) — The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, just two months old, has been shaky for some time. But that was thoroughly shattered by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza starting in the early hours...

A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent walks down a street during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, US, on January, 26.

Trump administration deports hundreds of alleged gang members to El Salvador despite court ruling

(CNN) — Hundreds of mostly Venezuelan alleged gang members were deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador on Sunday, with the Trump administration invoking wartime powers to speed up...

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