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The State Department, in a move that could affect as many as 200,000 visa holders and asylum applicants, has begun its review. Cancellations could occur in waves.
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Pennsylvania Republicans now view John Fetterman, the state's Democratic senator, more favorably than its sitting G.O.P. senator, a New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena poll found.
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The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump's order that creates "state citizenship lists" and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot.
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Progressive state Representative Angie Nixon pulled off a stunning victory in Florida last week, defeating the establishment-backed centrist candidate Alexander Vindman to win the state's Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Vindman, a former Army intelligence officer who testified during Trump's first impeachment trial, raised more than 16 times as much campaign money as Nixon. In November, Nixon will face incumbent Republican Senator Ashley Moody, who was appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to fill the seat of Marco Rubio when he resigned to serve as secretary of state. If elected, Nixon, who joined the Democratic Socialists of America in June, would become the only member of the DSA in the Senate.
"I know what it's like to struggle. I don't want anyone to have to struggle the way in which I did," says Nixon, whose campaign has focused on expanding healthcare, childcare and education, as well as tackling the affordability crisis.
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From South Dakota to Alaska, independents are challenging incumbent Republicans and eschewing a Democratic label that Western voters find toxic.
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A prominent Colombian activist left the United States after he was arrested by immigration agents and detained for over a month in an ICE jail. Franklin Humberto Coral Garrido, known as Beto Coral, was a frequent online critic of far-right President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, a Trump ally, in the run-up to Colombia's election.
In a memo obtained by The New York Times in June, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed for Coral's deportation and accused the activist of undermining U.S. foreign policy and interfering in Colombia's democratic process by supporting current Colombian leftist President Gustavo Petro and attacking de la Espriella.
Coral arrived in the United States in 2015 on a tourist visa and had a pending asylum application.
"The treatment I received was inhumane," says Coral of his time in ICE custody. He says that while in detention, he was beaten, denied food and water, and kept in solitary confinement.
"The problem that Marco Rubio and the Trump administration has," explains Elizabeth Shaw, one of Coral's attorneys, is that Coral's opinion "is against what they are in support of."
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