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WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman was arrested earlier this week by federal immigration authorities inside the family residential section of the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida, after she was flagged in a routine security check, officials said Saturday.“The spouse is not a member of the Coast Guard and was detained by Homeland Security Investigations pursuant to a lawful removal order,” said Coast Guard spokesperson Lt. Cmdr. Steve Roth in a statement confirming Thursday’s on-base arrest. “The Coast Guard works closely with HSI and others to enforce federal laws, including on immigration.”According to…

The decision comes after the DHS announced a comprehensive optimization of an immigrant database to verify non-citizen status nationwide.U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer warned states of losing federal funding if they fail to comply with President Donald Trump’s directives on rewarding illegal immigrants with tax dollars, according to an April 25 statement issued by the Department of Labor.“Our nation’s unemployment benefits exist solely for workers who are eligible to receive them,” Chavez-DeRemer wrote in a letter addressed to state governors. “To qualify for unemployment, one must be able and available to work, actively seeking work, and be legally authorized…

The DOJ says the child is in the lawful custody of the mother but the judge cites ’strong suspicion‘ the deportation was done without ’meaningful process.’A federal judge raised concerns on Friday that a 2-year-old U.S. citizen may have been deported alongside her illegal immigrant mother without receiving any meaningful legal review.In a memorandum order filed on April 25 at a court in Louisiana, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty said there was a “strong suspicion” that the child, identified in court records as V.M.L., had been removed to Honduras “with no meaningful process.” The judge scheduled a hearing for May…

LONDON (AP) — A lettercard penned by one of the Titanic’s most well-known survivors from onboard the ship, days before it sank, has sold for 300,000 pounds ($399,000) at auction.In the note, written to the seller’s great-uncle on April 10, 1912, first-class passenger Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship: “It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass judgment on her.”The letter was sold to a private collector from the United States on Saturday, according to auction house Henry Aldridge & Son in Wiltshire, England. The hammer price far exceeded the initial estimate…

Crystal Palace took one step closer to winning the FA Cup for the first time as they beat Aston Villa 3-0.Eberechi Eze lit up Wembley with a scorching opening goal on 31 minutes, bending home a beautiful strike from 22 yards following a turnover and pass from Ismalia Sarr. Villa always looked vulnerable to the direct and incisive Palace attacks, and Jean-Philippe Mateta really should have made it 2-0 on 53 minutes but blazed his penalty wide after Eze had been tripped. Player ratings: Crystal Palace: Henderson (9), Munoz (7), Richards (7), Guehi (7), Lacroix (7), Mitchell (7), Wharton (8),…

The third round of talks aimed at curbing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon included technical discussions about what such a plan would look like.Experts from the United States and Iran held their first technical discussions about the future of Iran’s nuclear program.The discussions in the Omani capital of Muscat follow two high-profile meetings between U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in the preceding weeks.Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, who mediated the two previous rounds of talks in Muscat and Rome, said that Iran and the United States “identified a shared aspiration to reach…

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CNN  —  Leaders from the United States and Iran painted a positive but cautious picture of talks between the nations over Iran’s nuclear program Saturday, after the third phase of the discussions wrapped up in Oman. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff led the delegations. Technical experts also held talks over Iran’s nuclear program and what a deal would look like. “Today’s third round of talks, in Muscat, were positive and productive. This latest round of direct and indirect discussions lasted over four hours. There is still much to do, but further progress was…

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN  —  Russia’s war on Ukraine may be entering a pivotal moment. President Donald Trump, who CNN reported Friday has been surprised and frustrated at the difficulty of achieving his promise of ending the war, wants Ukraine to give up territory in exchange for peace and essentially cede control of Crimea, the peninsula Russia first invaded in 2014. Russia controls nearly 20% of Ukraine, much of which could be lost under the current US proposal. The US is…

Leading analyst Craig Moffett suggests any plans to move U.S. iPhone assembly to India is unrealistic.Moffett, ranked as a top analyst multiple times by Institutional Investor, sent a memo to clients on Friday after the Financial Times reported Apple was aiming to shift production toward India from China by the end of next year.He’s questioning how a move could bring down costs tied to tariffs because the iPhone components would still be made in China.”You have a tremendous menu of problems created by tariffs, and moving to India doesn’t solve all the problems. Now granted, it helps to some degree,”…