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Why is Trump demanding travellers' social media handles; how will it work?
- The United States is planning to require some visitors to provide their social media history from the past five years, according to US President Donald Trump's administration. This requirement will apply to visitors who do not need a visa to enter the US. Here is a closer look at this proposal: What is the US planning to do? The proposal was announced on the Federal Register by the US Customs and Border Protection ...

Source: aljazeera.com
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Zelensky says revised US plan still calls for Ukraine to leave disputed Donbas region
- KYIV -- President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that a compromise peace plan backed by the United States still called for Ukraine to withdraw from the eastern Donbas region, a concession that Zelensky said his country would not make. Speaking to reporters in Kyiv, Zelensky made clear that territorial questions remained a major unresolved issue, a day after Ukrainian and European leaders sent to the United States ...

Source: bostonglobe.com
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Trump administration claims that spending $140 million on jets for deportations will save money
- In its latest splurge, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will spend nearly $140 million on six Boeing 737 planes to deport immigrants. The new DHS planes are intended to cut costs "by allowing ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] to operate more effectively," Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told The Washington Post . The planes will be purchased with funding granted by the One ...

Source: reason.com