Trump news at a glance: reports of IRS data deal spark fears for undocumented migrant workers
The US Internal Revenue Service is reportedly nearing a deal to allow immigration officials to use tax data to support Donald Trump's deportation agenda.
Under the proposed data-sharing agreement, said to have been in negotiations for weeks, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) could hand over the names and addresses of undocumented immigrants to the IRS, raising concerns about abuse of power from the Trump administration and the erosion of privacy rights.
If access to this confidential database is agreed on, it would mark a significant shift, likely becoming the first time immigration officials have relied on the tax system for enforcement assistance in such a sweeping way.
Under the agreement, the IRS would cross-reference names of undocumented immigrants with their confidential taxpayer databases, a move that would breach the long-standing trust in the confidentiality of tax information. Such data has historically been considered sensitive and thereby closely guarded, so the reported deal has raised alarm bells at the IRS, according to the Washington Post.
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The potential shift in taxpayer data use, from once being used to rarely build criminal cases to now reportedly becoming instrumental in enforcing criminal penalties, aligns with many of the more aggressive immigration policies Trump is pursuing.
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Usha Vance, the wife of US vice-president JD Vance, will travel to Greenland this week as President Donald Trump clings to the idea of the US annexing the strategic, semi-autonomous Danish territory.
Vance will visit Greenland on Thursday with a US delegation to tour historical sites, learn about the territory's heritage and attend the national dogsled race, the White House said in a statement.
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Chuck Schumer rejected calls to give up the top Democratic position in the Senate after he voted for Republicans' funding bill to avoid a government shutdown, saying on Sunday: 'I'm not stepping down.'
Schumer has faced a wave of backlash from Democrats over his decision to support the Republican-led bill, with many Democrats alleging that the party leader isn't doing enough to stand up to Donald Trump's agenda.
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Bernie Sanders is not running for president. But he is drawing larger crowds now than he did when he was campaigning for the White House.
The message has hardly changed. Nor has the messenger, with his shock of white hair and booming delivery. What's different now, the senator says, is that his fears – a government captured by billionaires who exploit working people – have become an undeniable reality and people are angry.
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Donald Trump's second administration has shown an 'unprecedented degree of resistance' to adverse court rulings, experts say, as part of a forceful attack on the American judiciary which threatens to undermine the rule of law, undercut a co-equal branch of government and weaken American democracy.
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Trump's breach of the justice department's traditional independence last week was neither shocking nor surprising. His speech quickly faded from the fast and furious news cycle. But future historians may regard it as a milestone on a road leading the world's oldest continuous democracy to a once unthinkable destination.
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Three major wildfires that broke out in one North Carolina county still recovering from Hurricane Helene have exploded to burn more than 3,000 acres combined as South Carolina's governor declared an emergency in response to a growing wildfire in the Blue Ridge mountains.
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