SCOOP: This ICE flight turned around midair after Pakistan abruptly declined to take the Iran-bound immigrants, according to a U.S. official and relative of a detainee.
This comes as the Trump admin. has planned two deportation operations via Pakistan to countries that America doesn’t have diplomatic relations with — Iran and Afghanistan — raising scrutiny on the country’s role.
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This comes as the Trump admin. has planned two deportation operations via Pakistan to countries that America doesn’t have diplomatic relations with — Iran and Afghanistan — raising scrutiny on the country’s role.
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RT @farnazfassihi: Immigrants Are Being Systematically Returned Home Despite Court Orders. Working with the Trump administration, foreign p…
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BREAKING: Deportation of Dozens of Afghans Blocked by Federal Court, for Now nytimes.com/2026/11/03/wor…
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Some Democrats are reacting to our Alaska Senate race investigation with "whataboutism" arguments and saying, "now investigate Trump." It's striking to see because a lot of what people know about Trump's actions came from Times investigative reporting. Here are some examples.
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NEW: By sending them to Pakistan — which would then send them to Afghanistan — the Trump administration has found a way around the hurdles that have so far prevented vulnerable Afghans from being sent back to face repression or retaliation by the Taliban.
With @Haleaziz @ElianPeltier
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With @Haleaziz @ElianPeltier
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Breaking News: The Trump administration has detained dozens of Afghan immigrants in Louisiana — including relatives of those who helped the U.S. military — and plans to deport them to Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials. nyti.ms/4jPVvrw
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The campaign to unmask Jane Doe started with a plea on X. Then came a bounty. It grew to nearly 25,000 posts purporting to name the woman alleging rape at Cornell, coming from trolls and attention-seekers @debra_kamin @amyjharris @RMac18 @HurubieMeko nytimes.com/2026/10/16/rea…
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SCOOP: The Trump administration is considering using ships, including a 500-foot training vessel and ferries, to deport migrants to Central and South America on journeys that could take days and cost millions of dollars, according to two U.S. officials.
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We spent weeks interviewing soldiers & officials to reconstruct how the Houthis won a perch on the Bab al-Mandab Strait — setting in motion a chain of events that has plunged Yemen back into war.
What we found imparts dark lessons for the battles to come:
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What we found imparts dark lessons for the battles to come:
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Since early August, Iran has launched about 30 drone attacks and 10 anti-ship missile attacks per week against commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz w/@pranavbask
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RT @farnazfassihi: News: Iran Proposes 7-Day Plan to End War
Under the offer, the Strait of Hormuz would reopen and nuclear talks would be…
Under the offer, the Strait of Hormuz would reopen and nuclear talks would be…
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Scoop: The Trump administration scrambled on Thursday to halt imminent deportations of a number of immigrants after an appeals court blocked authorities from expelling people to third countries without a chance to contest their cases, according to docs obtained by The Times.
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NEW — Two U.S. deportees were hooded, beaten and arrested in Equatorial Guinea, where a hotel has become a chaotic prison for people deported by the Trump admin, witnesses say.
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RT @farnazfassihi: Exclusive: Who in Iran was behind attacking the three ships in July that reignited the war? The inside story of how the…
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I went to Haiti to talk to the people who are arriving on the deportation flights. A common theme emerged: many people said their their iphones, jewelry and other valuables were not returned to them.
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NEW:
DOD thinks it's highly likely the strike that killed civilians at a wedding in Iran was an errant bomb, one of six launched at a comms tower about 440 feet away.
w/ @joyceslee washingtonpost.com/world/2026/09/…
DOD thinks it's highly likely the strike that killed civilians at a wedding in Iran was an errant bomb, one of six launched at a comms tower about 440 feet away.
w/ @joyceslee washingtonpost.com/world/2026/09/…
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