A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States.

A letter outlining “immediate next steps” arrived less than a week after the administration said it was canceling $400 million in grants and contracts.

<span class="field field-title">UN aid chief says shocked seeing dogs fattened from eating corpses in Gaza</span> <span class="field field-uid"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/bilge-kotan" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Bilge Kotan</a></span> <span class="field field-created"><time datetime="2025-03-13T07:33:51+00:00" title="13 March 2025 07:33 GMT">Thu, 03/13/2025 - 07:33</time> </span> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Tom Fletcher, head of the UN’s humanitarian affairs bureau, shared his observations from a recent visit to Gaza with reporters.</p> <p>“It was much, much worse than I’d anticipated, and I’d really prepared myself for the worst,” Al Jazeera reported him saying.</p> <p>Fletcher said the devastation, the desolation in northern Gaza is even greater there than it is in the south, , which has now been entirely reduced to rubble.</p> <p>"There were no landmarks to navigate by. You couldn’t see what was a school, what was hospital, what was a home,” he told reporters.</p> <p>“One of the first shocking things I saw driving in is the dogs going through the rubble. And I said to my colleague who was with me, why are the dogs so fat? And he said, well, because the dogs are looking for corpses. And you notice that the people are thin, and then you see that for miles and miles and miles.”</p> </div>

Trump administration lawyers asked the justices to limit the sweep of decisions by three lower courts that had issued nationwide pauses on the policy.

Tracking work permit applications can illuminate how changes in the pace of immigration are affecting labor supply.

Educators are embracing rather than restricting discussions of race in schools. Leaders have said they’ll do so whether the Trump administration approves or not.

The decision could apply more broadly to thousands of other government employees who were fired because they were on probationary status and relatively new in their positions.

Administration lawyers had said the government would miss the judge’s deadline to restart payments for past aid work and sought a late intervention from the Supreme Court.

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