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In the news today: The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to use an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants, but they must get a court hearing first; China says it will ‘fight to the end’ after President Trump threatens more tariffs; and scientists genetically engineer wolves like the extinct dire wolf. Also, a close-up look at the hundreds of carnivorous plants on display in Colombia.

Art depicting Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. and transferred to a prison in El Salvador after the U.S. alleged they were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, Caracas, Venezuela, April 2. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

POLITICS

Supreme Court allows Trump to deport Venezuelans under wartime law, but only after judges’ review

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to use an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants, but said they must get a court hearing before they are taken from the United States. Read more.

Why this matters:

• In a bitterly divided decision, the court said the administration must give Venezuelans who it claims are gang members “reasonable time” to go to court. But the conservative majority said the legal challenges must take place in Texas, instead of a Washington courtroom.
  
  

• The court’s action appears to bar the administration from immediately resuming the flights that last month carried hundreds of migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The majority said nothing about those flights, which took off without providing the hearing the justices now say is necessary.
  
  

• In dissent, the three liberal justices said the administration has sought to avoid judicial review in this case and the court “now rewards the government for its behavior.” Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined portions of the dissent.

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• US ends life-saving food aid for millions. The World Food program calls it a ‘death sentence’

   

• Federal grants to fight child labor worldwide are axed in DOGE cuts

   

• Colleges around the US say some international students’ visas are being revoked

   

• Trump’s DHS revokes legal status for migrants who entered the US on Biden-era CBP One app

   

• National Weather Service no longer translating products for non-English speakers

   

• Army reenlists nearly two dozen soldiers ousted for refusing COVID-19 vaccine

   

• Trump appointment of junior official to oversee State Department personnel meets resistance

   

• Fired Justice Department pardon attorney accuses the agency of ‘ongoing corruption,’ abuse of power

   

• Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to New York’s ban on guns in ‘sensitive’ locations
  
  

• Weedkiller maker asks US Supreme Court to block lawsuits claiming it failed to warn about cancer
  
  

• Trump says the US will hold direct talks with Iran; Tehran says they’ll be indirect negotiations
  
  

• Contract for Hong Kong company to operate Panama Canal ports had irregularities, audit finds
  
  

• Brazil will require visas for US, Canadian and Australian citizens

   

• Former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who led 2020 election probe agrees to surrender law license

WORLD NEWS

China says it will ‘fight to the end’ after Trump threatens to impose still more tariffs

China said Tuesday it would “fight to the end” and take countermeasures against the United States to safeguard its own interests after President Donald Trump threatened an additional 50% tariff on Chinese imports. Read more.

Why this matters:

• Trump’s threat Monday of additional tariffs on China raised fresh concerns that his drive to rebalance the global economy could intensify a financially destructive trade war. Stock markets from Tokyo to New York have become more unstable as the tariff war worsens.
  
  

• China, the world’s second-largest economy, has announced retaliatory tariffs and the ministry hinted in its latest statement that more may be coming. China is one of the U.S.'s top trading partners, especially for consumer goods, and the tariffs — essentially a tax on imports paid by U.S. companies — will eventually be passed on to the consumer.

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• World shares advance, led by 6% jump in Tokyo as markets calm somewhat after Trump's tariff shocks
  
  
• Speaker Mike Johnson says the House will give Trump ‘space’ on tariffs
  
  
• Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different

SCIENCE

Scientists genetically engineer wolves with white hair and muscular jaws like the extinct dire wolf 

Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an undisclosed secure location in the U.S., according to the company that aims to bring back lost species. Read more.

Why this matters:

• The wolf pups have long white hair, muscular jaws and already weigh in at around 80 pounds — on track to reach 140 pounds at maturity, researchers at Colossal Biosciences reported Monday. Dire wolves, which went extinct more than 10,000 years ago, are much larger than gray wolves, their closest living relatives today.
  
  

• Though the pups may physically resemble young dire wolves, “what they will probably never learn is the finishing move of how to kill a giant elk or a big deer,” because they won’t have opportunities to watch and learn from wild dire wolf parents, said Colossal’s chief animal care expert, Matt James.
  
  

• Colossal has previously announced similar projects to genetically alter cells from living species to create animals resembling extinct woolly mammoths, dodos and others.

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A CHANGE OF PACE

Drosera spatulata sits on display at a carnivorous plants exhibit at the Botanical Garden in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Hundreds of carnivorous plants on display lure in visitors in Colombia
With bright colors, deceptive shapes and sweet aromas, carnivorous plants lure insects only to catch and devour them. Nothing about them is accidental. Their beauty is the prelude to a deadly trap. Hundreds of the carnivorous plants were on display over the weekend at Bogota’s botanical garden in an exhibit called “Let yourself be trapped.”

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