Jacob Fischler
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Trump says US has captured Venezuelan President Maduro in 'large scale strike,' trial planned in NY. @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social has the @statesnewsroom.com story:
Trump says US has captured Venezuelan President Maduro in 'large scale strike,' trial planned in NY
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced early Saturday that the United States has captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a “large scale strike” against the South American nation, a stun...
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January 3, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Trump says US has captured Venezuelan President Maduro in 'large scale strike,' trial planned in NY. @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social has the @statesnewsroom.com story:
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Happy New Year! As we reach year 1 of Trump 2.0, there have already been major changes to U.S. immigration policy. As an immigration reporter, I’m always looking to talk to folks to make sense of it all.
If you work with immigration data/DHS/State/EOIR/or as an attorney, feel free to get in touch.
If you work with immigration data/DHS/State/EOIR/or as an attorney, feel free to get in touch.
January 2, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Happy New Year! As we reach year 1 of Trump 2.0, there have already been major changes to U.S. immigration policy. As an immigration reporter, I’m always looking to talk to folks to make sense of it all.
If you work with immigration data/DHS/State/EOIR/or as an attorney, feel free to get in touch.
If you work with immigration data/DHS/State/EOIR/or as an attorney, feel free to get in touch.
Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants
The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.
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December 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
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I was able to pursue several follow up stories on my beat, such as looking into the payments from the State Department to detain 250 men at CECOT & the human rights law it likely violated. Lawmakers made inquiries into the State Dept. about the funds. (5/8)
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U.S. human rights law likely violated in $6M payment for El Salvador prison, experts say
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department is paying El Salvador $6 million to house hundreds of immigrants deported from the United States in an immense and brutal prison there, Centro de Confinamiento d...
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December 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I was able to pursue several follow up stories on my beat, such as looking into the payments from the State Department to detain 250 men at CECOT & the human rights law it likely violated. Lawmakers made inquiries into the State Dept. about the funds. (5/8)
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-h...
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Alaska, Montana, Oklahoma crack top five in first rural hospital funding allocation. Story by Shauneen Miranda for @statesnewsroom.com
Alaska, Montana, Oklahoma crack top five in first rural hospital funding allocation
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled Monday hundreds of millions of dollars each state will receive this fiscal year as part of a massive $50 billion rural health fund baked i...
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December 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Alaska, Montana, Oklahoma crack top five in first rural hospital funding allocation. Story by Shauneen Miranda for @statesnewsroom.com
ICYMI: Here's a very digestible recap of the major news events in Washington this year.
Deportations, tariffs, court clashes, record shutdown mark a historic year in Washington, D.C.
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Deportations, tariffs, court clashes, record shutdown mark a historic year in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON — This year produced a seemingly endless array of history-making events and nearly constant change to immigration policy, tariffs, the Education Department and federal health care programs....
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December 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
ICYMI: Here's a very digestible recap of the major news events in Washington this year.
Reposted by Jacob Fischler
Deportations, tariffs, court clashes, record shutdown mark a historic year in Washington, D.C.
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/depo...
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/depo...
Deportations, tariffs, court clashes, record shutdown mark a historic year in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON — This year produced a seemingly endless array of history-making events and nearly constant change to immigration policy, tariffs, the Education Department and federal health care programs....
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Deportations, tariffs, court clashes, record shutdown mark a historic year in Washington, D.C.
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/depo...
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Deportations, tariffs, court clashes and a record shutdown: @jennifershutt.bsky.social looks back at a busy year in Washington for @statesnewsroom.com:
Deportations, tariffs, court clashes, record shutdown mark a historic year in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON — This year produced a seemingly endless array of history-making events and nearly constant change to immigration policy, tariffs, the Education Department and federal health care programs....
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Deportations, tariffs, court clashes and a record shutdown: @jennifershutt.bsky.social looks back at a busy year in Washington for @statesnewsroom.com:
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NY federal officials submit 1 million more pages of Epstein files
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NY federal officials submit 1 million more pages of Epstein files
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have sent a million more pages related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the Department of Justice, which plans to release them in the coming weeks, official...
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December 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
NY federal officials submit 1 million more pages of Epstein files
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NY federal officials submit 1 million more pages of Epstein files. @jennifershutt.bsky.social writes for @statesnewsroom.com:
NY federal officials submit 1 million more pages of Epstein files
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have sent a million more pages related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the Department of Justice, which plans to release them in the coming weeks, official...
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December 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
NY federal officials submit 1 million more pages of Epstein files. @jennifershutt.bsky.social writes for @statesnewsroom.com:
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National Guard shooting case moved to federal court as prosecutors weigh death penalty
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National Guard shooting case moved to federal court as prosecutors weigh death penalty
WASHINGTON — The man accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House last month, killing one, was charged in federal court Wednesday, moving the case out of the local court system....
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December 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
National Guard shooting case moved to federal court as prosecutors weigh death penalty
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National Guard shooting case moved to federal court as prosecutors weigh death penalty. Story by @jennifershutt.bsky.social for @statesnewsroom.com:
National Guard shooting case moved to federal court as prosecutors weigh death penalty
WASHINGTON — The man accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House last month, killing one, was charged in federal court Wednesday, moving the case out of the local court system....
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December 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
National Guard shooting case moved to federal court as prosecutors weigh death penalty. Story by @jennifershutt.bsky.social for @statesnewsroom.com:
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Thanks to everyone for reading our small but dogged DC bureau's nonprofit news coverage in 2025, with stories like this.
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Thanks to everyone for reading our small but dogged DC bureau's nonprofit news coverage in 2025, with stories like this.
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As the story about Bari Weiss and "60 Minutes" blew up, the subject--the brutal prison in El Salvador, CECOT--was very familiar to the @statesnewsroom.com DC Bureau. @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social has covered deportations to CECOT since March. A sampling:
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Venezuelans deported to brutal El Salvador prison weren’t gang members, lawyers say
WASHINGTON — In new court briefings Thursday, attorneys for several Venezuelan immigrants say their clients either had no criminal record or had cases before an immigration judge when they were deport...
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December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
As the story about Bari Weiss and "60 Minutes" blew up, the subject--the brutal prison in El Salvador, CECOT--was very familiar to the @statesnewsroom.com DC Bureau. @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social has covered deportations to CECOT since March. A sampling:
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/vene...
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/vene...
US Supreme Court in defeat for Trump blocks deployment of National Guard in Chicago. Story for @statesnewsroom.com:
US Supreme Court in defeat for Trump blocks deployment of National Guard in Chicago
President Donald Trump for now has not met the requirements to send National Guard troops to Chicago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday afternoon in a major setback for the president.The court’s ma...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
US Supreme Court in defeat for Trump blocks deployment of National Guard in Chicago. Story for @statesnewsroom.com:
Trump administration to garnish wages for defaulted student loans. Shauneen Miranda reports for @statesnewsroom.com:
Trump administration to garnish wages for defaulted student loans
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default beginning early next year, the U.S. Education Department said Tuesday. In an e...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Trump administration to garnish wages for defaulted student loans. Shauneen Miranda reports for @statesnewsroom.com:
Trump appears in several files of latest Epstein release. Shauneen Miranda reports for @statesnewsroom.com:
Trump appears in several files of latest Epstein release
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice early Tuesday released thousands more files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with several referencing President Donald Trump.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Trump appears in several files of latest Epstein release. Shauneen Miranda reports for @statesnewsroom.com:
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ICYMI: “I don't think we've ever, as a country, seen such a huge number of people losing their immigration status all at once,” said Julia Gelatt, the associate director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
Trump canceled temporary legal status for more than 1.5 million immigrants in 2025
WASHINGTON — Since Inauguration Day, more than 1.5 million immigrants have either lost or will lose their temporary legal status, including their work authorizations and deportation protections, due t...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
ICYMI: “I don't think we've ever, as a country, seen such a huge number of people losing their immigration status all at once,” said Julia Gelatt, the associate director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia to remain free from immigration custody for now. Story from Greenbelt by @ashleymurray.bsky.social and me for @statesnewsroom.com:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia to remain free from immigration custody for now
GREENBELT, Md. — U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis will retain an order keeping the wrongly deported El Salvador national Kilmar Abrego Garcia out of federal custody for the rest of the year, the judge ...
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December 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia to remain free from immigration custody for now. Story from Greenbelt by @ashleymurray.bsky.social and me for @statesnewsroom.com:
An in-depth look at how the Trump administration curtailed legal immigration by terminating Temporary Protected Status for more than 1 million immigrants and ending Humanitarian Parole protections for half a million more. @statesnewsroom.com story by @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social:
Trump canceled temporary legal status for more than 1.5 million immigrants in 2025
WASHINGTON — Since Inauguration Day, more than 1.5 million immigrants have either lost or will lose their temporary legal status, including their work authorizations and deportation protections, due t...
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
An in-depth look at how the Trump administration curtailed legal immigration by terminating Temporary Protected Status for more than 1 million immigrants and ending Humanitarian Parole protections for half a million more. @statesnewsroom.com story by @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social:
Trump administration pauses major East Coast offshore wind projects, Shauneen Miranda reports for @statesnewsroom.com:
Trump administration pauses major East Coast offshore wind projects
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday it’s halting leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction along the East Coast due to national security risks....
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December 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Trump administration pauses major East Coast offshore wind projects, Shauneen Miranda reports for @statesnewsroom.com:
Department of Justice releases new documents, photos as part of Epstein files. @ashleymurray.bsky.social leads team @statesnewsroom.com DC coverage with me, @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social and Shauneen Miranda www.newsfromthestates.com/article/depa...
Department of Justice releases new documents, photos as part of Epstein files
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice began releasing thousands of records Friday related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but questions remained over whether officials will meet the require...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Department of Justice releases new documents, photos as part of Epstein files. @ashleymurray.bsky.social leads team @statesnewsroom.com DC coverage with me, @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social and Shauneen Miranda www.newsfromthestates.com/article/depa...
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Criticism erupts after DOJ official says some Epstein files will emerge after deadline
My latest for @statesnewsroom.com:
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My latest for @statesnewsroom.com:
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Criticism erupts after DOJ official says some Epstein files will emerge after deadline
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice is expected to release records Friday related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but questions remained over whether officials will meet the requirements ...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Criticism erupts after DOJ official says some Epstein files will emerge after deadline
My latest for @statesnewsroom.com:
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My latest for @statesnewsroom.com:
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Trump administration moves to pause diversity visa program after Brown, MIT shootings www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
Trump administration moves to pause diversity visa program after Brown, MIT shootings
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said late Thursday she was suspending applications for a diversity visa program because the man suspected of killing two Brown University students ...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Trump administration moves to pause diversity visa program after Brown, MIT shootings www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...