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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Lift Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops

A lower court had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like race or speaking Spanish.

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Protesters in Pasadena, Calif., in June. Aggressive enforcement operations in Los Angeles set off days of protests and clashes in the area.
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Derk Sauer, Champion of Free Press in a New Russia, Dies at 72

He earned a media fortune in the freewheeling but chaotic Russia of the 1990s and defended press freedoms after the industry became beleaguered and unprofitable.

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Derk Sauer in the Netherlands last year. After Russia invaded Ukraine, he became a champion of Russian journalists who had fled to escape repression.
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