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'We have to be good or ICE will get us': Takeaways from Chicago children caught in immigration raids

CHICAGO (AP) — Just before noon on a sunny Friday early last month, federal immigration agents threw tear gas canisters onto a busy Chicago street, just outside of an elementary school and a children's play cafe.
Parents, teachers and caretakers rushed to shield children from the chaos, and have been grappling ever since w ... (full story)

Backing Israel was considered mandatory for New York politicians. Then came Zohran Mamdani

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NEW YORK (AP) — A few weeks before his stunning loss to Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic mayoral primary, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo put forth a political calculus long accepted as fact in New York: "Being a Democrat," he said, "it's synonymous that you support Israel."
Mamdani, who would be the city's fi ... (full story)

Some DC residents, wary of Trump's motives, uneasily back parts of the National Guard deployment

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The soldiers and airmen stood at the back of the black minivan, arming themselves — with black garbage bags and red-handled trash pickers — and headed for the park around the recreation center.
For the Washington, D.C., contingent of the National Guard deployed to the nation's capital, it mark ... (full story)

A Florida teenager is in an Israeli prison. Why his family and advocates say he should be released

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida family already grieving the beating death of a 20-year-old relative is now pleading with U.S. leaders to help free the dead man's cousin, a 16-year-old Palestinian-American from Florida who has been held in an Israeli prison for eight months.
Relatives, advocacy groups and some Congres ... (full story)

Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds

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WASHINGTON (AP) — After decades of gradual growth, the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions, leaving some campuses with Black populations as small as 2% of their freshman class, according to an Associated Press ana ... (full story)