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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a blow against the Trump administration’s attempt to send Venezuelans it says are gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador, saying the detainees must have a proper chance to raise legal objections.The 7-2 decision, which grants a request from a group of Venezuelans, clarified an unusual order issued by the justices in the early hours of April 19 that hit pause on any government plans to deport people held in northern Texas.The justices in the latest unsigned decision faulted the administration for giving the detainees only 24 hours to launch…

A judge on Friday sentenced an Alabama man to 14 months in prison for his role in the January 2024 hack of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account, which was used to send out a tweet that briefly spiked the price of bitcoin by more than $1,000, the Justice Department said.The man, Eric Council Jr., pleaded guilty three months ago in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft and access device fraud in connection with helping others who took control of the SEC’s account.The X account was used to falsely claim that the…

(The Center Square) – Reversing from job losses in March, the Texas oil and natural gas industry posted job gains in April, according to the latest employment data.The industry contributed to the state’s job gains, which again led the U.S. in job creation and broke multiple employment records last month, The Center Square reported.Upstream oil and natural gas employment climbed by 1,700 in April over the month, representing an increase in 900 jobs in the services sector and 800 jobs in oil and natural gas extraction. In March, the industry reported job losses of 800 after reporting gains in January…

The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.The plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libya’s leadership, two people with direct knowledge of the plans and a former U.S. official said. In exchange for the resettling of Palestinians, the administration would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago, those three people said.No final agreement has been reached, and Israel has been kept informed of…

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on January 31, 2025 shows (L) Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2025, and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on January 31, 2025. Jensen Huang, CEO of AI chip giant Nvidia, met January 31, 2025 with President Donald Trump as the company suffered a rough week on Wall Street over competition with China and the threat of tariffs on semiconductors.Getty ImagesIt’s been a stellar week for technology stocks thanks to thawing global tensions and President Donald Trump’s Middle East…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends an event, “Investing in America,” held by President Donald Trump in Washington, April 30, 2025.Leah Millis | ReutersU.S. tech giants Nvidia, Cisco, Oracle and OpenAI are supporting the “UAE Stargate” artificial intelligence data center announced this week, multiple people familiar with the deal confirmed Friday.AI chip leader Nvidia will supply hardware with the latest Blackwell GB300 systems, one person, who asked not to be named in order to speak freely, confirmed.The data center will collaborate with the AI infrastructure project of the same name in the U.S. announced by President Donald Trump shortly after his inauguration…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are issuing contracts so quickly to carry out President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants that the speed appears to be causing some of those contracts to be revoked, experts and contractors tell NBC News. At least one of the contracts was no-bid and went to a firm run by people who served in Trump’s first administration. ICE recently terminated a $73 million no-bid contract to provide staffing support for its offices days after a competitor filed an objection accusing the company that won the contract of exerting “improper influence” in securing it and accusing the agency…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Denisse Parra Vargas’ three children — two of them American citizens and one born in Mexico — in Texas last week and, because authorities deported their mother, sent them out of the United States too.The administration has responded to blowback from the children’s expulsions and those of other U.S. citizen minors, including a child with cancer and one recovering from a rare brain tumor, by saying the mothers were in the U.S. illegally and chose to take their children with them. The families and their attorneys vehemently disagree that the mothers had a choice.Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested…

Yoni Assia, co-founder and chief executive officer of EToro Group Ltd., center, and Ronen Assia, co-founder of EToro Group Ltd., center left, ring the opening bell during the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe IPO market has repeatedly tricked investors into believing it’s reopening after an extended drought dating back to early 2022. There are, once again, signs of hope.Shares of stock brokerage platform eToro jumped nearly 29% in their Nasdaq debut on Wednesday after the Israel-based company priced its IPO above…

Once, while shuttling between meetings in steamy Beijing during the summer of 2010, I asked Zbigniew Brzezinski who his single biggest foreign policy influence was. I was the great man’s research assistant back then and was awkwardly looking to fill the time. He paused for a moment, looking almost puzzled. “Nobody, really,” he answered. On first impression I thought Brzezinski’s non-answer was boastful. But in retrospect, Zbig (as he was known) was just being honest. The Polish-born strategist, most famous as Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor, evaded easy categorization. He was the Democrats’ Cold War sage who found admirers on…