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The Department of Homeland Security says its immigrant detention centers are at capacity, housing about 47,600 individuals.Speaking to reporters Wednesday on background, DHS officials said they are working with the Marshals Service, Department of Defense and Federal Bureau of Prisons to increase bed space as they ask Congress for more funding.Arrested individuals are also being released from detention on a case-by-case basis using ICE’s Alternatives to Detention program based on medical or humanitarian concerns, they said.The senior DHS and ICE officials also provided new arrest data cataloging Trump’s first 50 days back in office. According to DHS data, from Jan.…

Then, two things happened. The wonkish central banker Mark Carney announced his candidacy for leadership of the liberals, to succeed Trudeau. And Trump started talking so incessantly about taking over Canada as a 51st state that his minions like Kristi Noem have used trips to the Canadian border to mock-insult our gentle neighbors to the north.Failing a war of conquest, it was clear, there would be a protracted trade war, absurdly premised on the number of drug overdose deaths in the United States, which has been falling for a year; Peter Navarro, a Trump adviser on trade, recently argued that…

Ucrania dijo que apoyaría la propuesta del gobierno de Donald Trump de un alto al fuego de 30 días con Rusia tras las conversaciones mantenidas en Arabia Saudita, al tiempo que Estados Unidos acordaba levantar de inmediato su pausa en el intercambio de inteligencia y la asistencia militar a Ucrania.El anuncio del martes dio un nuevo impulso a los esfuerzos para detener los combates. Estados Unidos y sus aliados dijeron que ahora correspondía a Rusia poner fin a la guerra.¿Qué ocurrió en Arabia Saudita?El secretario de Estado Marco Rubio y Michael Waltz, asesor de seguridad nacional estadounidense, se reunieron en…

(The Center Square) – The demand from schools for solar project funding across Pennsylvania is outpacing available resources, state data reveals. In its pilot round, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, or DCED, reported receiving 88 grant applications from schools across 25 counties for the Solar for Schools program. Schools requested $88 million in funding — more than three times the available $25 million. The bill establishing the program, introduced by Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler, D-Philadelphia, was passed last session with bipartisan support and backing from environmental and labor groups. In a press release provided to The Center Square, Fiedler called it…

Many of Trump’s efforts to reshape the federal government have been challenged in court, often by employee unions or Democrat-led states that argue such decisions fall to Congress. Some have faced temporary restraining orders or legal setbacks, while others have won short-term victories. Nearly all the cases are still navigating their way through the federal court system. In addition, some federal employees have filed complaints directly with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), a panel that enforces worker rights within the government. Last week, a judge blocked Trump’s efforts to fire the chair of the MSPB. On Wednesday, one of…

En un lapso de solo 50 días, el presidente Donald Trump ha hecho más que cualquiera de sus predecesores modernos para socavar los cimientos de un sistema internacional que Estados Unidos erigió laboriosamente en los 80 años transcurridos desde que salió victorioso de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.Sin declarar formalmente un cambio de rumbo ni ofrecer una justificación estratégica, ha empujado a Estados Unidos a cambiar de bando en la guerra de Ucrania, abandonando todo discurso sobre ayudar a una democracia naciente e imperfecta a defender sus fronteras contra un invasor más grande. No dudó cuando ordenó a Estados Unidos que…

Montreal, Canada – In his first speech as Canada’s prime minister-designate, Mark Carney delivered what observers have described as a stunning statement. “I know that these are dark days,” Carney told a room full of supporters on Sunday after he won the race to lead the governing Liberal Party. “Dark days brought on by a country we can no longer trust.” The country in question? An ally with which Canada shares the world’s longest undefended land border and, until recently, seemingly unshakeable ties: the United States. “That is jaw-dropping in the broader context,” Jon Parmenter, a history professor at Cornell University…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that he hoped a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine could take place within “days” if Russian leaders agreed, and that he planned to get diplomats from the Group of 7 allied nations to focus on ending the war in a meeting this week in Canada.“Here’s what we’d like the world to look like in a few days: Neither side is shooting at each other — not rockets, not missiles, not bullets, nothing, not artillery,” he told reporters during a refueling stop in Ireland as he flew from Saudi Arabia to Canada. “The…

To the Editor:“These Words Are Vanishing in a ‘Free Speech’ Administration” (news article, March 11) sends a fearsome message and shows an assault on a very basic right of expression. How can democracy flourish in an atmosphere in which the very use of a word is threatening our peace of mind?Are we heading to a new form of Newspeak?Jackie LavalleQueensTo the Editor:It’s outrageous that the federal government is banning or limiting so many essential words from documents, including the word “women,” along with “gender,” “sex,” “underserved” and “pregnant people.” The word “men” is — of course — fine, as long…

(The Center Square) – A bill aimed at removing a 2007 tax break from wind energy producers has legislators at odds over the supremacy of coal in West Virginia’s economy.Senate Bill 439 would clarify that “wind power projects are not pollution control facilities,” which are taxed at salvage value. The clarification would subject them to real property taxes.Supporters of the bill say the change would add millions in tax revenue to the state and take away an unfair advantage over the coal industry. Those who oppose it say the wind industry, which employs West Virginians and is an essential component…