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Protestors march in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on April 19, 2025.

'Our rule of law means nothing': Protestors in DC demand return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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Seattle officers who attended Jan. 6 rally ask US Supreme Court to keep their identities anonymous

Deportation Error El Salvador

'Margarita-gate': Sen. Chris Van Hollen slams efforts to stage optics of meeting with Abrego Garcia

Pope Francis visits Regina Coeli prison in Rome on April 17, 2025.

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People who appeared at five Northern Virginia locations might have been exposed to the measles, the state's health department said.

Virginia Department of Health warns of potential measles exposure in Woodbridge, Fredericksburg

Police lights on first responder vehicles at crime scene.

Woman kidnapped at gunpoint in Bethesda, suspect surrenders after barricading inside car

A prince and knight fall in love and the Supreme Court is asked to intervene

Washington Spirit's Trinity Rodman will take indefinite leave of absence to treat back injury

6 people arrested after large group of teens descend on DC's Wharf

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Anti-Trump protesters rally in New York, Washington and elsewhere across the country

HUD headquarters up for sale, as Trump administration downsizes federal office space

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Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th- century wartime law

A group of Florida International University students protest against cuts in federal funding and an agreement by campus police to partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on the FIU campus on a day of protests around the country in support of higher education, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Miami.

'Unfair and uncalled for': International students react as over 1,000 visas revoked by Trump administration

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., speaks during a news conference upon his arrival from meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, as Abrego Garcia's mother Cecilia Garcia, left, and wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura, right, listen at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Md. Sen. Chris Van Hollen returns from El Salvador, says Abrego Garcia case is about far more than one person

Rina Gandhi, one of Abrego Garcia’s attorneys,

How the meaning of one word landed at the center of the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case

Maryland Deportation Error

'Prayers have been answered': Abrego Garcia's wife responds to meeting with Md. senator

Maryland Deportation Error

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Maryland Deportation Error

Lawyer: Document labeling Abrego Garcia as a gang member written by fired Prince George's Co. officer

Maryland Deportation Error

Trump officials' defiance over Abrego Garcia's deportation is 'shocking,' appeals court says

Maryland Deportation Error

Testing a court's authority: What judges can do if court orders are not followed by the Trump administration

El Salvador Deportation Error

The Abrego Garcia case pulls Democrats into the immigration debate Trump wants to have

Supreme Court keeps hold on Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship but sets May arguments

Maryland Deportation Error

Wife of mistakenly deported Maryland man responds to release of protective order filing

Patty Morin, mother of Rachel Morin, embraces White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt during a briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Mother of Maryland woman killed by Salvadoran fugitive is ‘special guest’ at White House briefing

Deportation Battle

Judge finds cause to hold Trump administration in criminal contempt for violating deportation order

Prince George's Co. draws White House ire after ICE arrests Guatemalan man charged in brother's death

Justice Department Gang Leader

Judge grants Justice Department's request to drop criminal case against alleged top MS-13 leader

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US judge presses Trump administration on its refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Trump US El Salvador Protest

Trump says he wants to imprison US citizens in El Salvador. That's likely illegal

Protestors in DC demand return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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Sen. Chris Van Hollen returns to US after visiting Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

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Fairfax Co. supervisors propose cutting middle school after-school programs

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Virginia Valley Vipers look to put pro basketball on the map in Loudoun Co.

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Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with El Salvador’s vice president

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2025 Inaugural FIFA Club World Cup

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345 names added to DC’s National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial

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FILE - Protestors march on April 29, 2015, in Baltimore. Hundreds of protesters, many of them students wearing backpacks, marched through downtown, calling for swift justice in the case of Freddie Gray, a Black man who died after suffering a severe spinal cord injury inside a police van. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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Vernon Davis takes a knee before a game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in November 2018.

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Va. youth soccer association Virginia Revolution merges with Loudoun United

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‘Margarita-gate’: Sen. Chris Van Hollen slams efforts to stage optics of meeting with Abrego Garcia

‘Our rule of law means nothing’: Protestors in DC demand return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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Virginia Department of Health warns of potential measles exposure in Woodbridge, Fredericksburg

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