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Supreme Court lets deportations
to other countries resume for Trump
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court will let President Donald Trump's administration resume deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy is legal.
The high court said Tuesday it will hear arguments in the case. The order lifts for now an appeals court decision that found migrants must have a chance to object. Federal attorneys said the lower court's decision forced the cancellation of a deportation flight carrying about 70 people.
Under a series of often-secret agreements, Trump's Republican administration has deported some 25,000 people to more than two dozen countries. The case comes amid a sweeping immigration crackdown by the Trump administration.
Ex-Trump prosecutor Smith defends
investigations as GOP assails him
WASHINGTON -- Former special counsel Jack Smith has forcefully defended his prosecutions of President Donald Trump and his investigative tactics. He pushed back against repeated Republican efforts to paint him and his team as partisan political operators during a Senate hearing Tuesday that featured a senator's bungled attempt to accuse him of lying about a basketball game.
The hearing came as Republicans have pushed for Smith to be prosecuted and offered a forum for them to assail him for what they contend were politicized prosecutions that unfolded at the height of the 2024 presidential race.
Democrats rallied in defense of Smith, eliciting testimony on the legal and factual basis for the criminal cases against then-candidate Trump.
Lindsay Clancy's lawyer questions
proof she ever killed her 3 children
PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- Lindsay Clancy's lawyer is arguing that there wasn't enough evidence to prove she killed her three children.
It's a striking turn after a lengthy trial that focused more on her mental state than on whether she took their lives.
At a hearing Tuesday, attorney Kevin Reddington said the "entire case is based on speculation" and there isn't enough evidence that Clancy killed the children. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called his argument "laughable."
The hearing marked the first time Clancy was in court since her closely watched trial ended Sept. 4 with a deadlocked jury.
US ban on $1 billion worth
of Canadian imports takes effect
WASHINGTON -- U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles.
The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of a two-way annual trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks another escalation in President Donald Trump's second-term trade war with America's longtime ally and trading partner.
Federal prosecutors charge
Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent
AUSTIN, Texas -- Federal prosecutors in Texas announced assault charges against a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in the back by immigration enforcement agents Sept. 20.
A federal complaint alleges 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez tried to escape Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who pulled him over after a judge issued a final removal order, according to U.S. Attorney Justin R. Simmons for the Western District of Texas.
If convicted Garces Perez faces up to 20 years in prison.
The Associated Press