US news | The Guardian ([syndicated profile] guardian_usa_feed) wrote2025-08-22 02:00 pm

Thousands face deportation to danger as Trump targets temporary protections

Posted by Justo Robles , and Etienne Côté-Paluck in Port-au-Prince

People with temporary protected status face possible deportation even though their home countries – including Afghanistan and Haiti – remain unsafe

Many thousands of immigrants living in the US who came from certain countries regarded as risky or dangerous are at the mercy of US judges and the Trump administration’s agenda to slash their work authorization and protection from deportation.

Since taking office, the Trump administration has announced the termination of temporary protected status (TPS) for citizens of seven of the 15 countries previously designated for shelter under this legal umbrella – with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) controversially citing improved conditions in some of those places.

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US news | The Guardian ([syndicated profile] guardian_usa_feed) wrote2025-08-22 02:00 pm

Seven Wyoming newspapers were about to be shut. They were given a second life

Posted by Cy Neff

A group of news execs stepped in to buy them, but across the US, 3,200 local news outlets have shuttered since 2005

Wyoming saw a resurrection last week.

Eight small towns across the vast rural state were reeling from the gut punch of the abrupt closures of their newspapers just a week earlier. Staff had woken up to an email from News Media Corporation (NMC) announcing the immediate closures of the printing presses.

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US news | The Guardian ([syndicated profile] guardian_usa_feed) wrote2025-08-22 01:37 pm

Court case challenging Eswatini-US immigrant deportation deal postponed

Posted by Rachel Savage and Savior Ngcebo Kakama

Five men who the US said were dangerous criminals were flown to the small southern African country in July

A court case challenging Eswatini’s acceptance of five people deported by the US has been postponed until September, after the attorney general failed to show up in court on Friday, according to one of the NGOs that brought the case.

The men from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba, who the US said were dangerous criminals, were flown to the small southern African country in July, as the administration of Donald Trump bids to deport millions of immigrants and asylum seekers.

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LWN.net ([syndicated profile] lwn_headlines_feed) wrote2025-08-22 01:03 pm

Security updates for Friday

Posted by daroc

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (tomcat), Debian (squid), Fedora (matrix-synapse, rust-slab, socat, and webkitgtk), SUSE (firefox-esr, gdk-pixbuf, gdk-pixbuf-devel, govulncheck-vulndb, rust-keylime, and wicked2nm), and Ubuntu (linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8, php7.0, php7.2, php7.4, python3.13, python3.12, python3.11, python3.10, python3.9, python3.8, python3.7, python3.6, python3.5, python3.4, and ruby-webrick).
NYT > Top Stories ([syndicated profile] nytimes_homepage_feed) wrote2025-08-22 01:26 pm

A Critic of Universities Is Rallying to Defend Them in the Trump Era

Posted by Jennifer Schuessler and Vimal Patel

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has long been a critic of progressive campus culture. Now it’s taking on new, and surprising, targets.
NYT > Top Stories ([syndicated profile] nytimes_homepage_feed) wrote2025-08-22 09:00 am

Trump’s Cuts May Spell the End for America’s Only Antarctic Research Ship

Posted by Raymond Zhong

The decommissioning would leave the United States with no icebreaker to study the southern seas and cede scientific leadership to rival countries like China.
US news | The Guardian ([syndicated profile] guardian_usa_feed) wrote2025-08-22 01:12 pm

Florida removes rainbow crosswalk honoring victims of Pulse nightclub shooting

Posted by Adam Gabbatt

Removal of crosswalk honoring 49 people killed in 2016 is latest anti-LGBTQ+ move by DeSantis administration

A rainbow crosswalk designed to honor victims of a mass shooting at a LGBTQ+ nightclub in Orlando was painted over by the Florida state government on Wednesday night.

The abrupt erasure of the memorial street crossing, which honored the 49 people killed at the Pulse nightclub in 2016, was described as a “scandalous act of betrayal” by one Florida state senator.

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US news | The Guardian ([syndicated profile] guardian_usa_feed) wrote2025-08-22 01:00 pm

Protests at Glacier as national parks reel from Trump cuts: ‘They’ve gutted staff, gutted funding’

Posted by Cassidy Randall

As Republicans tout their stewardship of public lands, Montana protesters say their park is suffering – and help is urgently needed

Dozens of former rangers, park volunteers, and local residents protested at the gateway to Montana’s Glacier national park on Wednesday against the staff cuts and hiring freezes that have thrown many national parks into crisis, including Glacier.

Current and former staffers and watchdog groups say the cuts have meant staff are not able to keep up the facilities and infrastructure. Some say the park has been left with inadequate infrastructure and too little staff to be able to respond to emergencies.

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