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Supreme Court rules administration can end protected status for Venezuelans for now

6:39am May 20, 2025

by Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Trump administration, for now, can end the safeguard known as Temporary Protected Status for about 350,000 Venezuelans living in the U.S.

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Want A Plastic Bag? Canadian Grocery Will Try To Shame You

East West Market customers in Vancouver who forget to bring their own bags will have to carry home plastic bags with an embarrassing phrase printed on the outside. Like: "Wart Ointment Wholesale."

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Trump Hopes U.S.-Mexico Deal Will Stem The Flow Of Asylum-Seekers

by Eric Westervelt

The surge of Central American migrants is straining dozens of interior checkpoints along the U.S.-Mexico border — with temporary closures of some posts and the reassignment of agents at others.

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National

Federal Funds Help Homeless Veterans In LA Get Back On Their Feet

by Libby Denkmann

Los Angeles has one of the nation's most intractable homeless populations. But one demographic bucks the trend: veterans.

World News

In China, What 's The Attitude On The Street About The U.S.?

by Steve Inskeep

What do people in China think of America? And how do Americans describe China? For answers, we interview people on the street in China and in Baltimore, Md.

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News Brief: Hong Kong Protests, Trump V. Biden, Sudan Prisoners

Hong Kong protesters force a delay in a controversial extradition bill. Trump focuses on Biden, in crowded Democratic presidential field. Sudan's military junta agrees to release political prisoners.

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World News

Protests Force Hong Kong's Lawmakers To Delay Vote On Extradition Bill

by Rob Schmitz

Demonstrations block roads around Hong Kong's legislature as lawmakers prepared to debate a bill that would allow people accused of a crime in Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China for trial.

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Mediator Says Sudan's Power-Sharing Talks To Get Back On Track Soon

by Eyder Peralta

The Trump administration is sending its top diplomat for Africa to Sudan amid mounting global concern over the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy activists by the country's ruling military council.

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Railroad Workers' Descendants Notice Lack Of Credit For Chinese Immigrants

by Emily Feng

Chinese immigrants helped build America's first transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, but their contribution has been largely forgotten. A group of their descendants is trying to change that.

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World News

Protesters Worry Hong Kong's Freedoms Are Gradually Eroding

Rachel Martin talks to pro-democracy activist and former politician Emily Lau about mass protests in Hong Kong in opposition to proposed legislation to extradite criminal suspects to mainland China.

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Trump Will Try To Bolster Iowa Farmers Hurt By Trade, Weather

by Clay Masters

President Trump promised Midwestern corn farmers that he would lift some restrictions on blending corn-derived ethanol into gasoline. Iowa farmers say the policies are undermining them in other ways.

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Politics & Government

Justice Department To Give House Panel Some Russia Probe Evidence

Steve Inskeep talks to law professor Jonathan Turley about the Justice Department acquiescing to House Democrats' demands to turn over some documents related to the Russia inquiry.

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Politics & Government

House Panel To Begin Probe Into Powerful Tech Giants

Steve Inskeep talks to Diana Moss, president of the American Antitrust Institute, about the House Judiciary Committee launching an antitrust probe into the big tech industry.

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