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  • Foul should have gone against Knicks toward end of playoff win vs. Pistons, NBA says

    Foul should have gone against Knicks toward end of playoff win vs. Pistons, NBA says



    Detroit’s Tim Hardaway Jr. said he got fouled on the game’s final play. The NBA agreed with him.

    It didn’t matter.

    Referees missed Hardaway getting fouled while shooting a 3-pointer on the final play of Detroit’s 94-93 loss to the Knicks in Game 4 of their Eastern Conference first-round series on Sunday. The NBA acknowledged the mistake shortly after the game, saying a foul should have been called on the Knicks’ Josh Hart.

    Had the foul been called, Hardaway would have been awarded three free throws with about 0.3 seconds left. Instead, the game ended on that play and Detroit left fuming.

    “You guys saw it,” Hardaway said after the game, speaking to reporters. “Blatant.”

    The Knicks took a 3-1 lead in the series, with Game 5 in New York on Tuesday.

    “During live play, it was judged that Josh Hart made a legal defensive play,” crew chief David Guthrie told a pool reporter after the game. “After postgame review, we observed that Hart makes body contact that is more than marginal to Hardaway Jr. and a foul should have been called.”

    Hart didn’t dispute that he made contact with Hardaway.

    “Did I make contact with him? Yeah, I made contact with him,” Hart said. “Was it legal? I don’t know. We’ll let the two-minute report say that.”

    The NBA puts out a review of all calls in the final two minutes of games decided by three points or fewer, with those reports released the day after the game. But in this case, with a pool report requested, the NBA had Guthrie speak to a reporter and explain what happened.

    Detroit argued to no avail after time expired. Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff was clearly angered and approached the officiating crew on the floor shortly after the final shot, but he had no mechanism to challenge the call. One, the Pistons had used their challenge earlier in the game and two, even if Bickerstaff still had the challenge, it wouldn’t have mattered — technically, no call was made, so he couldn’t have challenged anyway.

    “There’s contact on Tim Hardaway’s jump shot,” Bickerstaff said. “I don’t know any other way around it. There’s contact on his jump shot. The guy leaves his feet, he’s at Timmy’s mercy. I repeat, there’s contact on his jump shot.”

    The Pistons had the ball with 11.1 seconds left, down by one. Cade Cunningham missed a jump shot with 7.4 seconds remaining and, after a scramble, the ball ended up in Hardaway’s hands in the left corner.

    Hardaway ball-faked to get Hart into the air, and Hart clearly made contact with the right side of Hardaway’s body as he was in the act of shooting.

    Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns was asked for his view of the play after the game.

    “What do you want me to say? View of what?” Towns said, smiling. “Going back to Madison Square Garden. Happy we got a win. You like that answer? Is that good?”



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  • 1 dead, 6 wounded in shooting at Elizabeth City State University

    1 dead, 6 wounded in shooting at Elizabeth City State University


    ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — A shooting at a small college in eastern North Carolina left one person dead and six others wounded and prompted a campus lockdown early Sunday, the university said.

    The shooting occurred in the center of Elizabeth City State University’s campus following Yard Fest, the final event of the historically Black university’s weeklong Viking Fest celebration, the school said in a statement.

    A 24-year-old man who was not a student was pronounced dead. His identity wasn’t immediately released pending notification of his family, the statement said.

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    Two young men console each other outside the Bedell Hall campus cafeteria early Sunday on the Elizabeth City State University campus. Chris Day / The Daily Advance / AP

    Four people sustained gunshot wounds, including three students, while two other students were injured during the commotion. None of the injuries were considered life-threatening. All the injured were taken to a hospital for treatment, the statement says.

    A call to campus police was referred to a university spokesperson, who didn’t immediately return a telephone message.

    “The university is deeply saddened by this senseless act,” the university said in an earlier statement.

    The lockdown was later lifted, and the university increased patrols across campus as a precaution. Access to the center of campus remained restricted later Sunday.

    The university has 2,300 students and is about 50 miles south of Norfolk, Virginia.



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  • Gen Z’s Trump gender gap and Pope Francis’ simple tomb: Weekend Rundown

    Gen Z’s Trump gender gap and Pope Francis’ simple tomb: Weekend Rundown


    The split between men and women is one of the starkest divisions in American politics right now — and that divide is deepest in Gen Z, which is taking the traditional gender gap in American politics and stretching it even further.

    While 45% of men ages 18-29 approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance, only 24% of young women do — a 21-point difference, according to a new NBC News Stay Tuned Poll, powered by SurveyMonkey.

    There’s a similar, extra-wide gap between Gen Z men and women on on Trump’s handling of immigration, as well as on billionaire White House adviser Elon Musk.

    Overall, Americans are delivering a negative verdict on the president’s performance as he nears the 100-day mark of his second term. A majority of American adults — 55% — disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job, while 45% approve.

    The tariffs at the center of Trump’s economic agenda earned his lowest issue ratings, with 39% approving of his handling of the issue and 61% disapproving.

    On immigration, a strength of his throughout the 2024 campaign and still his best issue among those polled, adults were split, with 49% approving of his handling of border security and immigration and 51% disapproving.

    Follow Trump’s approval rating in NBC News polls and see how it compares to past presidents.

    ‘Meet the Press’

    Secretary of State Marco Rubio told “Meet the Press” that “yes, of course” all people in the U.S., both citizens and noncitizens, are entitled to due process.

    His comments come as the Trump administration presses courts to allow the immediate deportations of some immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act without giving them a chance to plead their case before a judge.

    Rubio defended the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, which have included deporting three children who are U.S. citizens — ages 2, 4 and 7 — alongside their mothers, according to The Washington Post.

    “If those children are U.S. citizens, they can come back into the United States if there’s their father or someone here who wants to assume them. But ultimately, who was deported was their mother, their mothers who were here illegally. The children just went with their mothers,” Rubio told moderator Kristen Welker.

    Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., responded to criticism from a fellow Democratic caucus member for using the term “oligarchy” to describe allies of the Trump administration, saying the “American people are not quite as dumb” as to not understand the term.

    Politics in brief

    • Divided Dems: Democrats are increasingly acknowledging their path forward can’t simply be a promise to unwind Trump’s policies. They just don’t agree on exactly what the future looks like.
    • Campaigns on ice: Republican would-be presidential hopefuls are holding off on laying the groundwork for 2028 campaigns as Trump continues to flirt with the prospect of seeking re-election despite a constitutional two-term limit.
    • Out: Several LGBTQ+ events that were due to take place at the Kennedy Center as part of Washington, D.C.’s World Pride celebrations have been relocated, after Trump fired several board members at the center and named himself chairman.

    Pope Francis’ final resting place: A humble tomb

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    A nun prays in front of the tomb of Pope Francis on the first day of its opening to the public.Antonio Masiello / Getty Images

    A simple tomb bearing no adornment and inscribed only with the Latin name “Franciscus” opened to the public on Sunday, one day after Pope Francis’ funeral.

    There were lengthy queues at Rome’s St. Mary Major Basilica, where his tomb lies, the first time a pope had been laid to rest outside the Vatican in more than a century.

    His casket was received there on Saturday, in accordance with his wishes, by dozens of Rome’s impoverished and needy, including prisoners, migrants, homeless and transgender people.

    Francis chose his place of burial because it reflects his “humble, simple and essential” life, the archbishop who administers the basilica said.

    Even in death, the pomp-shunning pontiff’s moral voice rang out at his funeral, as the large crowds and world leaders in attendance, including Trump, were reminded of Francis’ central messages.

    “‘Build bridges, not walls’ was an exhortation he repeated many times,” Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re said during the homily. “His gestures and exhortations in favor of refugees and displaced persons are countless. His insistence on working on behalf of the poor was constant.”

    Liverpool wins the English Premier League title

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    Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah celebrates after scoring his side’s third goal against Southampton at Anfield in Liverpool on March 8.Jon Super / AP file

    With its 5-1 win against Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, Liverpool bulldozed its way to a record-tying 20 English league titles. It draws Liverpool level with Manchester United as the winningest club in English soccer history.

    It was supposed to be a season of transition for the Reds under new manager Arne Slot, who replaced Jurgen Klopp in the offseason. It turned out it was a transition straight to Premier League glory.

    Notable quote

    Thank you GOD.

    Shedeur Sanders, new Cleveland Browns quarterback

    It was a torturous wait for star Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders, who was the 144th pick in the fifth round of the NFL draft on Saturday — a stunning slide for a prospect considered by many to be a first-round certainty.

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    • At least 11 people were killed and multiple injured when a driver plowed into a crowd at a Filipino street festival in Vancouver, Canada. Police say the driver is in custody and they are “confident that this incident was not an act of terrorism.”
    • A massive explosion and fire at a port in southern Iran, purportedly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant, killed at least 25 people and injured more than 800 others.
    • Harvard University, America’s oldest and wealthiest institute of higher learning, is at a crossroads as it weathers the Trump administration’s attacks.
    • For some cancer patients, immunotherapy may be a way to skip surgery and chemo.
    • The Al-Zurai family showed NBC News what life is like for thousands of people in Gaza after the ceasefire broke and Israel began a blockade that has barred the entry of food, water, medicine and other supplies into the enclave.
    • Russia acknowledged for the first time that North Korean troops were on the front lines of its war with Ukraine, with a senior military official crediting their role in helping Russian forces reclaim control of the Kursk region.
    • The suspect who was arrested in the theft of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse is in the country illegally, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia told NBC News.



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  • U.S. citizen children, including 4-year-old with cancer, deported to Honduras, legal advocates say

    U.S. citizen children, including 4-year-old with cancer, deported to Honduras, legal advocates say



    Two U.S. citizen children were sent on their mother’s deportation flight to Honduras without the opportunity to speak with attorneys, leaving a 4-year-old boy with Stage 4 cancer without access to his medication, according to the National Immigration Project.

    Gracie Willis, an attorney with the organization, told NBC News that the boy and and his 7-year-old sister were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday. They were taken to El Paso, Texas, and flown to Honduras first thing Friday morning, Willis said.

    The 4-year-old boy, who was actively receiving treatment for a rare form of cancer, was flown to Honduras without his medication, according to Willis and the National Immigration Project.

    Attorneys were preparing a habeas corpus petition when the children were deported on an ICE charter flight before it could be filed, Willis said.

    Attorney Erin Hebert, who Willis said is representing the family, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. In a press release by the National Immigration Project, Hebert called the deportation of U.S. children “illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral.”

    “The speed, brutality, and clandestine manner in which these children were deported is beyond unconscionable, and every official responsible for it should be held accountable,” Hebert said.

    Willis is representing a similar case involving the mother of a 2-year-old U.S. citizen who was deported with her child on Friday.

    U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty ordered a hearing in the case, saying it appeared that the government deported a U.S. citizen with “no meaningful due process.”

    These incidents are the latest in a string of cases that have raised alarm among immigration advocates. Recent headlines have highlighted U.S. citizens being mistakenly detained by ICE and, in some instances, receiving official paperwork incorrectly telling them to leave the country.

    Other cases have underscored fears of procedural errors, including those of Mahmoud Khalil, a U.S. permanent resident who was detained by federal agents without a warrant, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to El Salvador despite a court order barring his removal.

    In the cases of the young children, both families had fathers residing in the U.S. and were unable to make decisions about their children before they were flown to Honduras, Willis added. The National Immigration Project said the women were in incommunicado detention by ICE, making them unreachable by lawyers or family members.

    Legal teams that were able to reach the mothers after their deportations said the women both expressed being given no choice and that they were told their children would come with them, according to Willis.

    “Their families are having to make hard choices. … Those are decisions they should have been able to communicate with each other about before all of this happened,” Willis said.

    The National Immigration Project has accused ICE of violating its own mandates on the “coordination for the care of minor children with willing caretakers — regardless of immigration status — when deportations are being carried out.”

    Both families are taking time to process what has happened, Willis said. The children are U.S. citizens who should be able to return, but their mothers were deported before they were able to pursue their legal options.

    Representatives for ICE did not immediately respond to a NBC News request for comment. In the case of the 2-year-old, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said the parent made the decision to take the child with them to Honduras.

    Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged the children’s citizenship status on Sunday in an interview with MSNBC’s “Meet the Press,” saying that while everyone on U.S. soil is entitled to due process, individuals in the country illegally “have no right to be here.”

    He also described the headlines regarding the children as “misleading,” stating that parents have the choice to decide whether their children are deported with them.

    “Three U.S. citizens — ages 4, 7 and 2 — were not deported. Their mothers, who are illegally in this country, were deported,” Rubio said. “The children went with their mothers. Those children are U.S. citizens. They can come back into the United States … but ultimately, who was deported was their mother, their mothers who were here illegally.”

    Willis accused the government of “purposefully manipulating facts,” calling it an “absurdity” that ICE was the sole conduit for expressing the mothers’ wishes.

    “The public has a right to know about what happened with these children, and we want to make sure this never happens again,” Willis said. “How do we make sure this never happens again when you have Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeating the party line that the mothers wanted this? It’s a lie. It’s untrue.”



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  • At least one dead in Oklahoma flooding as millions in region face severe weather risks

    At least one dead in Oklahoma flooding as millions in region face severe weather risks



    At least one person has died in southwest Oklahoma after flash flooding hit the region, with authorities warning people to stay off the roads as severe weather warnings continue.

    “Emergency responders reported witnessing a vehicle drive into standing water earlier today,” Lawton Police Department said in a statement on Saturday. “Responders were not able to safely get to the submerged vehicle.”

    The investigation into the death is ongoing, officials said on Saturday. The dive team assisted in recovery of the victim and the family has been notified, authorities said. The identity of the victim has not been released.

    Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt expressed his gratitude for the first responders who helped perform water rescues on Saturday, but urged Oklahomans to stay safe.

    “Thank you to our wonderful first responders who’ve been executing water rescues all day due to flooding from heavy rain,” he wrote in a post on X Saturday. “Oklahomans, be extra careful when driving and don’t try to drive through flooded roads. Stay weather aware!”

    Lawton city officials said water began to recede in some areas on Sunday afternoon.

    Further south in Walters, Oklahoma, Cotton County Emergency Management issued a public notice urging all residents to evacuate flood zone areas.

    Floodwaters are expected to rise through mid-afternoon Sunday, authorities said. Emergency management is working to secure more sand and sandbags for residents.

    Across the Southwest and Rockies, extremely critical fire weather conditions continue Sunday afternoon due to 60 mph wind gusts, single digit relative humidity and dry vegetation. Around 7 million people will be under alert throughout Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and west Texas.

    Additional severe weather risks span from Montana to Texas, with storms capable of producing winds up to 70 mph, large hail and potentially tornadoes overnight Sunday.

    On Monday, 36 million people from Texas to Michigan will be in the severe weather region, including major cities of Minneapolis, Chicago and Oklahoma City.

    The strongest storms will be late afternoon and continue overnight, with the potential for intense tornadoes, very large hail and powerful wind gusts. Localized flash flooding may occur in the central region of the country.

    The risk will decrease by Tuesday as it moves north to New York, when 37 million will be under a slight risk for severe weather in metropolitan areas like Indianapolis, Oklahoma City and Cleveland. As the front travels east, scattered strong to severe thunderstorms may occur with strong wind gusts, hail and an isolated tornado.

    As the week continues, there will be a moderate risk in parts of the upper midwest.



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  • As Real ID deadline for U.S. air travel approaches, there are ‘workarounds,’ experts say

    As Real ID deadline for U.S. air travel approaches, there are ‘workarounds,’ experts say



    The deadline for U.S. travelers to get a Real ID is fast approaching — and those who don’t have one may not be able to board flights within the U.S.

    The Real ID card is an optional, upgraded driver’s license or state identification card that is issued by a state driver’s licensing agency and marked with a star.

    The good news: There are other forms of identification U.S. travelers can use — such as a valid U.S. passport, passport card, permanent resident card, or certain Department of Homeland Security trusted traveler cards — if they can’t get a Real ID by the deadline, May 7.

    “There are workarounds people can use,” said John Breyault, a travel expert at the National Consumers League, a consumer advocacy group. “Most people already have the ability to travel, whether they have a Real ID or not.”

    About 19% of travelers don’t yet have a Real ID-compliant type of identification, according to Transportation Security Administration data as of Thursday.

    Passengers who arrive at the airport without an acceptable form of ID “can expect to face delays, additional screening and the possibility of not being permitted into the security checkpoint,” according to the TSA.

    Even passengers who have a Real ID card or other acceptable ID should aim to be at the airport at least 1½ hours ahead of their flight, due to likely delays in airport security lines as enforcement gets underway, Breyault said.

    What is the Real ID law?

    Congress passed the Real ID Act in 2005. The law set minimum security standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and ID cards.

    The federal government will require Americans who access federal facilities to have a Real ID starting May 7. That includes travelers who go through TSA airport security checkpoints and board commercial airplanes, even for domestic flights.

    The rule applies to all airline passengers 18 years and older, including TSA PreCheck members.

    How to get around the Real ID rule

    Travelers can skirt the requirement to present a Real ID card if they have other types of approved identification.

    Experts said the most common among them are: a passport or passport card; a Global Entry card; an enhanced driver’s license issued by Washington state, Michigan, Minnesota, New York or Vermont; or a permanent resident card, also known as a green card.

    Here’s a list of all acceptable alternatives, according to the TSA:

    State-issued enhanced driver’s license

    U.S. passport

    U.S. passport card

    Department of Homeland Security-issued trusted traveler cards (Global Entry, NEXUS, SENTRI, FAST)

    U.S. Department of Defense ID, including IDs issued to dependents

    Permanent resident card

    Border crossing card

    An acceptable photo ID issued by a federally recognized Tribal Nation/Indian Tribe, including Enhanced Tribal Cards (ETCs).

    HSPD-12 PIV card

    Foreign government-issued passport

    Canadian provincial driver’s license or Indian and Northern Affairs Canada card

    Transportation worker identification credential

    U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Employment Authorization Card (I-766)

    U.S. Merchant Mariner Credential

    Veteran Health Identification Card (VHIC)

    ‘Get that Real ID’

    It may be somewhat riskier to travel with an alternative document such as a passport for domestic flights, said Sally French, a travel expert at NerdWallet.

    “A passport is much more complicated to replace than a driver’s license, and it’s more expensive,” French said. “Get that Real ID.”

    A traditional passport book costs $130 to renew. Real ID fees vary by state but are generally less costly, experts said. They typically aren’t more expensive than a standard driver’s license.

    For example, in California it costs $45 to renew a standard driver’s license or $39 to renew a regular ID card; in Virginia, there’s a $10 one-time Real ID fee, plus a driver’s license fee, usually $32.

    Desperate travelers can also gamble by showing up at the airport without a Real ID-compliant form of identification on May 7 and beyond, and hope airport agents show some mercy, French said.

    It’s a “much longer screening” process and isn’t guaranteed, French said. It’s a “Hail Mary,” she said.



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  • Bernie Sanders responds to ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour criticism

    Bernie Sanders responds to ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour criticism



    Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Sunday responded to criticism from a fellow Democratic caucus member for using the term “oligarchy” to describe allies of the Trump administration, saying the “American people are not quite as dumb” as to not understand the term.

    Sanders’ remarks come days after Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., a first-term senator who won a competitive Senate race in Michigan the same year that President Donald Trump won the presidential election there, told Politico that she thinks her party should stop using the term “oligarchy.”

    Slotkin added that the term doesn’t resonate beyond coastal institutions.

    While she didn’t mention Sanders in her remarks, her comment comes as Sanders and fellow progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., have been traveling across the country and speaking before crowds of tens of thousands as part of their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.

    On Sunday, Sanders referenced those crowds, telling NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” “Well, Jesus, we had 36,000 people out in Los Angeles, 34,000 people in Colorado. We had 30,000 people in Folsom, California, which is kind of a rural area.”

    “I think the American people are not quite as dumb as Ms. Slotkin thinks they are,” Sanders added.

    A spokesperson for Slotkin declined to comment on Sanders’ remarks.

    The Vermont senator went on to explain the core message of the “Fighting Oligarchy,” rallies, telling moderator Kristen Welker, “When the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 90%, when big-money interests are able to control both political parties, [Americans] are living in an oligarchy.”

    The spat between Slotkin and Sanders comes as Democrats are still trying to assess how to move forward in a second Trump administration, months after they faced a devastating loss in the presidential election and in multiple Senate races.

    Many Democrats in recent weeks have agreed that the party must focus on the future and what their post-Trump vision for America could look like but can’t agree on what that vision should look like.

    It’s a point that Sanders made on Sunday, telling Welker, “We’re on the same page, but what Democrats lack right now is a vision for the future.”

    Sanders has long been the standard bearer for progressive Democrats, ever since he launched his long-shot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.

    But Slotkin is a new rising star. In 2018, she flipped a competitive Michigan House seat in favor of the Democrats. And months after defending an open Senate seat in her home state for the Democratic Party, she was selected by party leaders to give the official Democratic response to Trump’s joint address to Congress earlier this year.



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  • Gaza Health Ministry reports 51 deaths from Israeli strikes, bringing overall toll to over 52,000

    Gaza Health Ministry reports 51 deaths from Israeli strikes, bringing overall toll to over 52,000



    DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the remains of 51 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes in the past 24 hours, the local Health Ministry said Sunday, bringing the Palestinian death toll from the 18-month-old Israel-Hamas war to 52,243.

    Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas by launching a surprise bombardment on March 18, and has been carrying out daily waves of strikes since then. Ground forces have expanded a buffer zone and encircled the southern city of Rafah, and now control around 50% of the territory.

    Israel has also sealed off the territory’s 2 million Palestinians from all imports, including food and medicine, for nearly 60 days. Aid groups say supplies will soon run out and that thousands of children are malnourished.

    The overall death toll includes nearly 700 bodies for which the documentation process was recently completed, the ministry said in its latest update. The daily toll includes bodies retrieved from the rubble after earlier strikes.

    Israeli strikes killed another 12 people after the ministry’s update. Eight of them, including three children and two women, were killed in a strike on a tent in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to Nasser Hospital. A strike in the central city of Deir al-Balah killed four people, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

    Israeli authorities say the renewed offensive and tightened blockade are aimed at pressuring Hamas to release hostages abducted in its Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue the war until Hamas is destroyed or disarmed, and all the hostages are returned.

    Hamas has said it will only release the remaining 59 hostages — 24 of whom are believed to be alive — in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as called for in the now-defunct ceasefire reached in January.

    Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the Oct. 7 attack and took 251 people hostage. Most have since been released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.

    Gaza’s Health Ministry says women and children make up most of the Palestinian deaths, but does not say how many were militants or civilians. It says another 117,600 people have been wounded in the war.

    The overall tally includes 2,151 dead and 5,598 wounded since Israel resumed the war last month.

    Israel says it has killed around 20,000 militants, without providing evidence. The military says it tries to avoid harming civilians and it blames Hamas for their deaths because the militants operate in densely populated areas.

    Israel’s offensive has destroyed vast parts of Gaza and displaced around 90% of its population, leaving hundreds of thousands of people sheltering in squalid tent camps or bombed-out buildings.



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  • ‘Of course’ all people in the U.S. are entitled to due process

    ‘Of course’ all people in the U.S. are entitled to due process



    Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday defended the Trump administration’s agenda of deporting undocumented immigrants but said that “of course” all people in the U.S. are entitled to due process.

    “Yes, of course,” Rubio told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” when asked whether citizens and noncitizens in the U.S. are entitled to due process.

    His comments come as the Trump administration has pressed the courts to allow the immediate deportations of immigrants it accuses of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang under the Alien Enemies Act without giving them a chance to plead their case before a judge.

    Last week, the Supreme Court asked the administration to pause deportations of some Venezuelan men based in Texas who the Trump administration said were members of Tren de Aragua, with attorneys for the immigrants asking for them not to be deported “before the American judicial system can afford them due process.”

    That decision came after the Supreme Court in early April allowed the Trump administration to move forward with some deportations under the AEA as long as detainees “receive notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act.”

    “The notice must be afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs,” the Supreme Court justices added.

    On Sunday, the secretary of state defended the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, which have included deporting three children who are U.S. citizens — ages 2, 4 and 7 — alongside their mothers, according to The Washington Post.

    “Their mothers, who were illegally in this country, were deported. The children went with their mothers,” Rubio told moderator Kristen Welker.

    “If those children are U.S. citizens, they can come back into the United States if there’s their father or someone here who wants to assume them. But ultimately, who was deported was their mother, their mothers who were here illegally. The children just went with their mothers,” the secretary of state added.

    Rubio called the story “misleading,” saying that “you guys make it sound like ICE agents kicked down the door and grabbed the 2-year-old and threw him on an airplane.”

    In a December interview with “Meet the Press,” then-President-elect Donald Trump previewed his approach to deportations involving mixed-status families, or those where some family members are in the U.S. legally and others aren’t.

    “I don’t want to be breaking up families, so the only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back,” Trump told Welker at the time.

    Rubio also defended the Trump administration’s broader approach to deporting undocumented immigrants, calling the strategy a departure from decadeslong norms in the U.S. that allowed undocumented migrants to remain in the country while pursuing asylum claims.

    “Once you come into our country illegally, it triggers all kinds of rights that can keep you here indefinitely. That’s why we were being flooded at the border, and we’ve ended that,” Rubio said.

    He also spoke about the ongoing negotiations to reach a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, just one day after Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of Pope Francis’ funeral in Rome.

    Rubio said the deal was “closer in general than they’ve been any time in the last three years, but it’s still not there.”

    Speaking about the state of negotiations, the secretary of state told Welker, “There are reasons to be optimistic and there are also reasons to be concerned.”

    “If this was an easy war to end, it would have been ended by someone else a long time ago,” Rubio added.



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