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U.S. federal agents look on as they stand guard while blocking a road leading to an agricultural facility where U.S. federal agents and immigration officers carried out an operation, in Camarillo, California, July 10. (Reuters/Daniel Cole)

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US Judge Rejects California Law That Banned Masks for Federal Officers

Rumeysa Ozturk speaks during a news conference with her legal team at Boston Logan Airport in Boston, May 10, 2025. An immigration judge has found there were no grounds to deport a Turkish graduate student whose arrest by masked agents last year was an early salvo in the Trump Administration’s crackdown on migrants. (Sophie Park/The New York Times)

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Immigration Judge Says Trump Administration Cannot Deport Tufts Student

The seal of the U.S. Justice Department is seen on the podium in the Department's headquarters briefing room in Washington, January 24, 2023. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo)

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Former Atwater Correctional Officer Pleads Guilty to Obstructing Justice

The Stonewall Inn and Stonewall National Monument in New York, Feb. 13, 2025. A large Pride flag was quietly removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan after a directive from the federal government, the latest step in the Trump administration’s nationwide assault on diversity initiatives and the second time in less than a year it has targeted the Greenwich Village site, which commemorates the birth of the LGTBQ rights movement. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)

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Pride Flag Is Removed From Stonewall Monument After Trump Directive

Vice President JD Vance speaks to the media before boarding Air Force Two upon departure for Azerbaijan, at Zvartnots International Airport in Yerevan, Armenia, February 10, 2026. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Pool)

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Vice President Vance’s Office Backtracks After Statement on Armenian Genocide

Angel Sandoval Valdez is Valley Crime Stoppers' Most Wanted Person of the Day for Feb. 10, 2026. (Valley Crimes Stoppers)

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Valley Crime Stoppers’ Most Wanted Person of the Day: Angel Sandoval Valdez

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