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President Donald Trump invoked a 1798 law to expedite deportation of Venezuelan gang members Saturday, though a federal judge blocked the plan for two weeks to hear arguments in the case.
The 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act is the only remaining law of four passed as part of the Alien and Sedition Acts amid tensions with France. The law gives the president power to deport non-US citizens without due process if they are natives of a country with which the US is at formal war or during an “invasion or predatory incursion.” The statute has been invoked three times—during the War of 1812 and both World Wars—and was the basis for the 1940s internment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans.
In its invocation, the Trump administration described the recent migration of thousands of members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang—designated a foreign terrorist organization in January—as an invasion. The group is known for human and drug trafficking, and its alleged members are the target of at least 100 criminal investigations across the US. |
The 68-team field for the 2025 men's college basketball tournament was revealed
yesterday, with Auburn (28-5) grabbing the top overall seed. The Tigers were joined by the Duke Blue Devils (31-3), Houston Cougars (30-4), and Florida Gators (30-4). See the full bracket here.
The story coming into the tournament is the dominance of the Southeastern Conference, which saw a record 14 teams get bids. (The conference expanded to 16 teams this season, along with the Big Ten). Separately, Rick Pitino became the first person to lead six separate schools to NCAA tournament bids, with St. John's grabbing a No. 2 seed.
The women's field is coming off one of the most-watched tournaments last year, with an average of 18.7 million viewers tuning in to the finals—the first time the women's title game outpaced the men's final. This field this year is led by UCLA, along with defending champion South Carolina, USC, and Texas rounding out the No. 1 seeds (see full bracket).
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Hundreds of homes were destroyed and at least 36 people were killed over the weekend as intense early spring storms moved across the central and southern US. As of this writing, 12 people were killed following a tornado outbreak in Missouri, six people died in Mississippi, and three in Arkansas, among other states.
In Kansas, eight people were killed and dozens injured in a 55-vehicle pileup along I-70 after an intense dust storm impaired visibility. More than 200,000 people—largely through the mid-South—were left without power by late Saturday, with the system bringing widespread downpours across the mid-Atlantic by Sunday. To the north, some locations in Indiana and Kentucky reported 2-inch hail and winds nearing 70 mph.
In related news, more than 110 people were injured and one killed as of this writing as high winds and dry conditions spurred wildfires across Oklahoma. See footage from the blazes here. |
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