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In the news today: The Supreme Court says the Trump administration must work to bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador; China again raises tariffs on US goods; and RFK Jr. says the nation’s top health agency will determine the cause of autism by September. Also, scientists say an ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to a mysterious group of early human ancestors called Denisovans.
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Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, during a news conference in Hyattsville, Md., April 4. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Supreme Court says Trump administration must work to bring back mistakenly deported Maryland man |
The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration must work to bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal. Read more. |
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The court acted in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who had an immigration court order preventing his deportation to his native country over fears he would face persecution from local gangs. “The order properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador,” the court said in an unsigned order with no noted dissents.
The administration claims Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang, though he has never been charged with or convicted of a crime. His attorneys said there is no evidence he was in MS-13. The administration has conceded that it made a mistake in sending him to El Salvador, but argued it no longer could do anything about it.
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“The Government’s argument, moreover, implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, joined by her two colleagues.
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Trade war escalates as China raises retaliatory tariffs on US goods to 125%
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China announced countermeasures in the growing trade war with the United States, raising tariffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125% starting Saturday, even as U.S. President Donald Trump hit a pause on tariffs for other countries. Read more.
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President Donald Trump’s universal tariffs on China total 145%. When Trump announced Wednesday that China faced 125% tariffs, he did not include a 20% tariff on China tied to its role in fentanyl production.
Trump’s actions led business executives to warn of a potential recession, and some of the top U.S. trading partners to retaliate with their own import taxes, before the pause. But Trump and China continued raising the tariffs in a tit for tat.
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RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September
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The nation’s top health agency will undertake a “massive testing and research effort” to determine the cause of autism, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday. Read more. |
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Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic who has pushed a discredited theory that routine childhood shots cause the developmental disability, said the effort will be completed by September and involve hundreds of scientists. He shared the plans with President Donald Trump during a televised Cabinet meeting. Trump suggested that vaccines could be to blame for autism rates, although decades of research have concluded there is no link between the two.
Autism is a developmental disability caused by differences in the brain. It presents with a wide range of symptoms that can include delays in language, learning, and social or emotional skills.
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Autism Society of America spokeswoman Kristyn Roth said many agree that more research is needed to determine what causes autism, but Kennedy’s approach has raised alarms
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Illustration provided by researchers in April 2025 depicts a Denisovan male in Taiwan in the Pleistocene era about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago. (Cheng-Han Sun via AP)
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Ancient jawbone discovery belongs to a mysterious group of human ancestors, scientists say
An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens. |
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