US judge blocks Trump from ending protections for 2,800 Yemeni nationals

2026-05-01 17:55:36 UTC / Reuters

By Nate Raymond

May 1, 2026 5:55 PM UTC Updated 5 mins ago

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Judge cites failure to follow legal process in ending Yemeni temporary protection
TPS protects Yemenis from deportation for humanitarian reasons
Trump administration has sought to end TPS for 13 countries

May 1 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from moving ahead next ‌week with plans to end temporary legal protections that have allowed more than 2,800 people from Yemen to live and work in the United States.

U.S. District Judge Dale Ho in Manhattan issued the order at the behest of a group of Yemeni nationals who ​had sued over the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s decision to strip them effective Monday of the ​Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, they were previously granted.

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TPS under federal law is available ⁠to people whose home countries have experienced natural disasters, armed conflicts or other extraordinary events. It provides eligible ​migrants with work authorization and temporary protection from deportation.

Ho issued the ruling just two days after the conservative-majority U.S. ​Supreme Court took up the administration’s appeal of similar rulings that have prevented it from ending the same type of humanitarian protections to more than 350,000 people from Haiti and 6,100 from Syria.

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Ho, who was appointed by former Democratic President Joe ​Biden, said he ordinarily would wait for the Supreme Court to provide him guidance, but said “the exigencies of ​the moment” require him to rule now.

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Ho called TPS holders from Yemen law-abiding people who have been allowed to avoid returning ‌to a ⁠nation that, for most of a decade, “has been ravaged by civil war.”

The determination to extend TPS to them is subject to periodic review, he acknowledged. But he said now-former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem failed, as required by law, to consult with relevant government agencies before ending TPS for Yemen.

“Congress has, by statute, established a process ​for such review, which the ​Secretary failed to adhere ⁠to here,” he wrote.

A DHS spokesperson, in a statement, said allowing the Yemeni nationals to remain in the United States was not in the national interest. “Temporary means temporary ​and the final word will not be from activist judges legislating from the bench,” ​the spokesperson ⁠said.

The administration has sought, as part of Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement agenda, to terminate the TPS designations for 13 countries, only to be stymied by repeated rulings by judges who have largely blocked its efforts.

About 2,810 Yemeni nationals hold TPS, ⁠and ​another 425 have pending TPS applications.

Democratic President Barack Obama’s administration first extended ​TPS to Yemeni nationals already in the United States in 2015. DHS has repeatedly since then redesignated Yemen for TPS.

But in February, DHS ​said it was terminating TPS for Yemen.

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Book excerpt: “The New Tourist” by Paige McClanahan

2026-05-01T13:08:00-0400 / CBS News

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In “The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel” (available from Scribner), journalist Paige McClanahan writes about how tourism shapes societies and individuals, and about the need to redefine the meaning of “tourist” in today’s shrinking world.

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Introduction

About nine hundred years ago, a group of monks built a stone abbey along the banks of a cold, clear river in a steep-sided valley high in the Alps. The religious men took up residence among the locals—people who spent their days tending cows and sheep, churning butter, weeding onions and turnips, scouring the forests for mushrooms, and chiseling sculptures from the local limestone. Centuries passed, and the abbey went through the typical cycles of decline and renewal, fire and renovation, until 1792, when an invading army (the French) claimed the monks’ worldly possessions as their own—and kicked them out. Stripped of its holy residents, the abbey took on a new life as the headquarters of a company that mined the local iron ore, which was destined for the infrastructure of a rapidly industrializing Europe. Later, as wealthy Europeans began to seek out the restorative powers of alpine air, the abbey went through another reinvention: it became a hotel.

In the summer of 2018, my family and I moved to a house that sits a few miles from that abbey, whose tidy lawn now hosts a popular outdoor concert series every summer. The abbey’s hotel closed in the nineties—a casualty of the rise in the popularity of chalet rentals over hotel rooms—but tourism in the valley is going strong. So much so that the people who live along the banks of the valley’s cold, clear river now spend their days driving tourists to and from the airport; serving them espressos and blueberry tarts; cleaning their bathrooms and changing their sheets; and leading them along hiking trails, up rock-climbing routes, and down wide slopes of fresh, untracked snow. For the past fifty years, tourism has been the cornerstone of the local economy. It’s also the main reason why the local village hasn’t gone the way of so many villages across Western Europe since the end of the Second World War—and disappeared entirely.

My boyfriend and I first visited the valley as tourists, back in 2007. We were weekenders coming up with friends from Geneva, where we lived and worked. We fell in love with that cold, clear river and the high, jagged peaks, spliced with waterfalls, that soared above it. We returned to the valley eleven years later— now married and with two small children and having lived in three other countries in Africa and Europe. We moved into our house, applied for our residence permits and driver’s licenses, and enrolled our children in the local school. We had spent most of our lives as visitors to tourist destinations. Now we were residents.

As we settled into life in the valley, we learned to adapt to the comings and goings of the tourists, a seasonal migration as predictable as the public holidays and school vacation schedules that dictate their movements. I came to love how tourists brought energy and life—as well as jobs and income—into our beautiful, sleepy corner of the world. I happily shared the local hiking trails and ski slopes with tourists, and enjoyed eating at our many local restaurants, most of which wouldn’t survive without tourists’ patronage.

But it wasn’t all fun and games, as I discovered the first time I showed up at the local supermarket on a Saturday afternoon in August. Or the time my children were late for school because our usual parking lot was overflowing at 8:00 a.m. on a weekday. Or the times when I sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic on our rural, two-lane road—which leads both to our house and to a nature reserve that attracts a few hundred thousand visitors every year. Within weeks of moving to the valley, I began to appreciate—for the first time in my life—the depth, nuance, and significance of a phenomenon in which I had always, and usually unwittingly, played a part.

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Tourism shapes our world—by which I mean it alters our economies and cultures, as well as our physical environments—in profound and surprising ways. The numbers are astonishing: in 2019, travel and tourism generated more than 10 percent of global economic output, which makes it more than double the size of the global agriculture industry. It also accounted for about one in ten jobs around the world, and one in five jobs created in the previous five years. In 2019, international visitors spent $1.9 trillion while traveling, which was well over double U.S. federal defense spending the same year. And the numbers are only getting bigger: the global economic value of travel and tourism is expected to rise by an average of 5.8 percent per year until 2032, compared to a 2.7 percent predicted growth rate for the global economy overall.

But the impacts of tourism go far beyond jobs and GDP. In many places, tourism is a significant source of funding for wildlife conservation; tourism also generates about 8 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions. And with roughly a billion international tourist arrivals every year, tourism has become humanity’s most important means of conversation across cultures. You don’t even have to cross a border to feel the impact. If you’ve ever seen a hula girl on the dashboard of a taxi and thought of Hawai’i, you’ve felt tourism’s influence. Thee same is probably true if an image of a flamenco dancer makes you think of Spain, or if you can name the capital of Iceland without consulting your phone.

Tourism shapes national narratives, creates national symbols, and frames our perceptions of other societies. It also intensifies the commodification of our cultures, even as it sometimes helps to sustain them. Tourism provides a powerful economic incentive to protect the world’s natural wonders; it can also threaten their very existence. Tourism transforms villages like our own into vibrant places that are, for the most part, agreeable and welcoming to visitors and residents alike. But tourism can also destroy places’ souls, hollowing out city centers and leaving empty urban shells whose most striking feature is sheer commercialism.

Governments, particularly local governments, have an enormous influence over whether the net impact of tourism in a place is positive or negative, though many governments have only recently woken up to this fact. Tourism businesses also affect the vitality of the places that underwrite their profits, and these profit-seeking ventures vary widely in terms of their self-awareness and willingness to ensure that their operations do more good than harm. But tourists play a role, too. Those of us who are privileged enough to fall into this category wield significant power, individually and collectively, in determining tourism’s impact—both on the places we visit, and on ourselves.

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Before we go any further, I should take a moment to define my terms here. Because while dictionary definitions of “tourism” tend to focus on the business side of accommodating people when they go on vacation, I have a broader understanding of the word. The UN World Tourism Organization tells us that tourism is “a social, cultural, and economic phenomenon which entails the movement of people to countries or places outside their usual environment for personal or business/professional purposes.” My understanding of tourism aligns with that one, although I would add a temporal component: tourist movements are for finite periods; we’re not talking about immigration here.

A lot of people are uncomfortable with the word “tourist,” at least when it’s aimed in their direction. I’m hoping this book will help shake loose some of that stigma, because I don’t think it’s helpful. It irks me that some people insist on a distinction between “travelers” and “tourists,” where the former are explorer types who are unsatisfied with anything short of an “authentic” experience, while the latter are philistines who are content with clichéd, mass-market experiences. In practice, I find that the biggest difference between the terms is that we use “traveler” when referring to ourselves and people close to us, while “tourist” is reserved for everyone else. I don’t deny that people travel for a huge range of reasons, some higher-minded than others. So sure, call yourself a traveler, but never forget that you’re a tourist, too. Our redemption as tourists lies not in wallowing in a sense of superiority over the people standing in line ahead of us as we wait to get into the Louvre. It lies in elevating our understanding of what tourists are, and the important role that they—that we—play in the world.

So how do we do that? Where do we begin? I find it helpful to imagine two tourist archetypes that lie at either end of a spectrum. On one side, we have the new tourist, who is a tourist in her most evolved state, her highest manifestation. This is in contrast to what we find at the other end of the spectrum—the old tourist, who represents an approach to tourism that we would all do well to leave behind. We might like to think of an old tourist as a loud-talking, gum-smacking, sneakers-wearing American who seeks out Starbucks abroad like a heat-seeking missile. But I have a somewhat more nuanced definition. The old tourist, in my view, is a pure consumer who sees the people and places he encounters when he travels as nothing more than a means to some self-serving end: an item crossed off a bucket list, a fun shot for his Instagram grid, one more thing to brag about to his peers. The old tourist confines his destination and its inhabitants to a preconceived story, which makes it impossible for him to consider the people or places he visits in any depth or with any real empathy. He projects his fantasies onto his destination of choice, and he reacts with disappointment or even outrage when the reality fails to match his notion of the ideal.

But I believe there’s such a thing as a new tourist, too, which is the whole reason I wrote this book—and chose the title I did. In my view, it’s entirely possible that the new tourist is an American who talks loudly, chews gum, wears sneakers, and sometimes likes to get a coffee at Starbucks when she’s overseas. Those kinds of details don’t matter much in the end. Here’s what does: Even if, like all of us, she sometimes takes comfort in the familiar, the new tourist is humbled by her travels, which open her eyes to her smallness in the great stretch of history and the vast sea of humanity. The new tourist embraces the chance to encounter people whose backgrounds are very different from her own, and to learn from cultures or religions that she might otherwise fear or regard with contempt. The new tourist returns from her travels with a degree of skepticism for her native land that may not have occurred to her had she never left home. Because of her travels, the new tourist is inoculated against anyone who might try to convince her to hate or look down on people who look different from her, who speak a language other than her own, who pray to a different god, or who happen to live on the other side of a border. Because of her travels, the new tourist is a more open and generous human being.

All of us who travel fall somewhere between the old and new tourist archetypes, and we probably find ourselves sliding along the spectrum at different points in our travels. Rest assured, I’m somewhere in the middle with you. But if we understand what the new tourist looks like, we can at least aspire to reach her heights. I’ve been trying to find my way to the land of the new tourist for a while now. This book, as I see it, is my best and biggest effort to finally get there myself.

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Travel presents us with a dizzying array of choices: where to go, when to go, how to go, what to do while we’re there. Many books have been written about how to travel “sustainably,” “responsibly,” or “mindfully.” I see this book as a sort of prequel to those. My goal here isn’t to give you a list of dos and don’ts for your next vacation, because there’s no way that I could provide an answer for every situation you might encounter. Only you can make those choices—in the moment, and within whatever constraints you happen to find yourself. Instead of prescribing, my aim here is twofold: to provide you with a framework that will help you come up with your own questions, and to inspire you to ask those questions—of yourself, of the companies you patronize, of your governments, and of the symbols and narratives that you encounter when you travel. Because that is the way of the new tourist.

My goal here is to tell the whole truth, messy as it may be, and to show how we tourists help to shape the phenomenon of tourism itself. Each chapter explores a complex question about tourism and its players, its impacts, its levers of power, and its stakes. How did a handful of young baby boomers transform the way millions of Westerners view the world? Is social media changing the way we see ourselves in relation to other cultures and landscapes? How does tourism influence a nation’s image—and influence—on the world stage? When does tourism destroy the soul of a city, and when does it offer a place a new lease on life? Is “last-chance tourism” prompting a powerful change in perspective, or obliterating places we cherish? Is it possible to strike a balance between tourist fantasies of a place and the realities of everyday local life? Given all the negative headlines about tourists these days, would it be better for all of us just to stay at home?

To wake up to the consequences of our travels might sound like a lot of work, but doing so can bring deep and lasting rewards—for us as individuals, as well as for our societies. Some people are happy to roam the world as old tourists, pure consumers who remain willfully blind to the impacts of their wanderings. But I know that many of you are ready to join me in striving for a new, and better, way of doing things. I hope this book helps us get there together. Because to be a tourist is a privilege and, for many of us, it’s one of life’s great pleasures. With the right approach, which begins with a deep understanding of what’s at stake, tourism can also be a powerful force for good.

Excerpted from “The New Tourist” by Paige McClanahan. Copyright © 2024, 2025 by Paige McClanahan. Excerpted with permission by Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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Nebraska becomes first U.S. state to enact Medicaid work requirements

May 1, 2026 / 1:17 PM EDT / CBS News

Nebraska on Friday became the first U.S. state to enact Medicaid work requirements, seven months ahead of the deadline set by the Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” law.

Health care policy experts say they are closely watching Nebraska’s early rollout of the new rules, which apply to people enrolled in Medicaid under an expansion that allowed more low- and middle-income earners to qualify for the government health insurance program. About 70,000 Nebraskans enrolled in Medicaid through the expansion, out of the roughly 346,000 Medicaid recipients in the state.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, in 2025 described the new requirements as a way to cut “fraud, waste and abuse” in Medicaid.

However, several experts warn the restrictions could hinder access, with The Urban Institute estimating that the changes may result in up to 10 million people losing Medicaid coverage in the next two years.

“Nebraska going early is going to allow us to kind of see what might be working, what aspects of implementation may not be working,” said Jennifer Tolbert, deputy director of KFF’s Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured, in an online event on Thursday focused on the work requirements.

About 25,000 Medicaid enrollees in Nebraska could lose their health insurance under the new rules, or about 36% of those subject to the restrictions, according to the Urban Institute.

The new rules apply to Medicaid expansion enrollees aged 19 to 64, who must show they are working or performing community service for at least 80 hours a month, or are at least part-time students. There are some exemptions, including for people with medical issues, pregnant women and caregivers of disabled people.

Many losing coverage are enrollees who meet requirements but are dropped for paperwork issues or failure to prove exemptions, such as being disabled, the group said.

Recipe for chaos?

Three other states plan to implement the Medicaid work requirements by year-end: Iowa, Montana, and Nebraska. Montana has signaled it will start enforcing the rules on July 1, while Iowa will implement them Dec. 1, according to KFF.

Yet even as Nebraska moves forward with the new Medicaid rules, many questions remain about how to implement the policy, health care experts said. For instance, states are still waiting for guidance from federal authorities on how to define an enrollee in the program as “medically frail,” which is one of the exemptions from the work requirements, a KFF analysis found.

Because the “big beautiful bill,” which President Trump signed into law in 2025, requires the rules to be instituted by Jan. 1, 2027, many states are still developing plans to implement them, KFF said.

Amy Behnke, CEO of the Health Center Association of Nebraska, told The Associated Press that staff members who help people enroll in Medicaid and their clients have questions that the state hasn’t yet answered. For example, people who travel to a hospital for care are exempt from the work rules, but it’s not clear how far the journey has to be to qualify, she said.

“The speed at which we are choosing to implement work requirements hasn’t left a lot of space for really meaningful communication,” Behnke said.

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Other U.S. states are now working through their plans and hiring more state workers or contractors to handle the additional work, KFF found in its analysis. Six states plan to use artificial intelligence to help with processing documents and data matching, according to the health policy research firm.

One major issue facing states is how to prove someone is “medically frail,” which the “big beautiful bill” says includes people who are blind or disabled; those with physical, intellectual or developmental disabilities; individuals with substance use disorder or a “disabling” mental disorder; or those with “serious or complex” medical conditions.

States are grappling with whether they can use medical claims to verify medical frailty or rely on enrollees’ self-declarations, said Kate McEvoy, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, during KFF’s webinar.

In a statement in December, Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, applauded Nebraska for announcing it would be the first state in the nation to introduce the new work requirements, describing the early rollout as showing the state’s “commitment to helping more Nebraskans move toward greater independence and opportunity.”

In the same statement, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen described the new rules as helping Medicaid recipients win “greater self-sufficiency through employment and other meaningful activities.”

As of February, Nebraska had one of the lowest unemployment rates in the U.S., at 3.1%, compared with a national jobless rate that month of 4.4% (Unemployment fell to 4.3% in March.)

Learning from Arkansas and Georgia

Some experts are skeptical that Medicaid work requirements will spur more program participants to get jobs, pointing to what happened in two states, Georgia and Arkansas, that enacted similar rules several years ago.

Arkansas’ requirements failed to boost employment, according to an analysis from researchers at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. But about 18,000 adults in the state lost health care coverage after the policy went into effect, with more than half reporting that they delayed medical care and more than 6 in 10 saying they delayed taking medications because of cost.

Arkansas dropped the mandate after a court struck it down in 2019, a year after it was implemented.

Georgia’s program proved costly, with a pricetag of $110 million, and rejected about 60% of Medicaid applicants, often for paperwork issues such as failing to provide a birth certificate or driver’s license, according to the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, a state-focused think tank. Over its first two years, the program enrolled about 8,000 Georgians.

“At their core, work requirements keep people from or take away health coverage, and indeed people will lose coverage by the millions, even if they are eligible,” the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan think tank, said in a report this week. “This conclusion is supported by ill-fated, real-world experiences in Arkansas and Georgia.”

Edited by Alain Sherter

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Here’s when businesses will start getting refunds for Trump’s IEEPA tariffs

2026-05-01 1:33 PM EDT / CBS News

By Megan Cerullo

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Businesses that applied for refunds of President Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs, which the Supreme Court struck down in February, are getting some clarity on when they will receive their money.

The Trump administration is expected to issue the first tariff refunds as early as May 11, according to court documents filed this week. The White House is estimated to have collected $166 billion in duties that it now owes back to importers.

The federal government on April 20 launched a portal where businesses could file refund requests for Mr. Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, tariffs. Called CAPE, or the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries tool, the portal briefly crashed when a large number of businesses visited the site after its debut.

The portal has since been working as intended for most businesses, with some legal experts praising how quickly the U.S. government created the refund mechanism.

U.S. Court of International Trade Judge Richard Eaton, who oversees the tariff refund process, said in a filing Tuesday that the first tranche of refunds could land in businesses’ bank accounts around May 11.

Judge Eaton said that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has accepted roughly 21% of IEEPA duty refund requests. Of those, 3% are already in the “refund stage of the process,” Eaton said. The first refunds, which will come from the U.S. Treasury Department, will arrive as early as May 11.

In his filing, Eaton acknowledged some of the hurdles businesses faced in navigating the tariff refund process. Some importers said they were unable to access their Customs importer accounts and waited on hold for hours trying to resolve administrative errors.

Beth Benike, co-founder of Busy Baby, a Minnesota-based maker of baby accessories, is among the U.S. small businesses that have not yet been able to apply for tens of thousands of dollars in refunds due to portal access issues.

Dahlia Rizk, owner of Buckle Me Baby, a Massachusetts-based kids’ outerwear company, also reported struggles applying for $66,000 worth of refunds she’s owed.

“It was very difficult. I had a lot of trouble,” she told CBS News. “I shouldn’t have had to call up Border Patrol and explain my entire life story.” Ultimately, she was able to submit a request that she said Customs has approved and expects to receive in the coming months.

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Business owners on U.S. tariff refund issues

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Trump says he spoke with Iraq PM-designate, voices strong support

2026-05-01 17:02:10 UTC / Reuters

By Gram Slattery

May 1, 2026 5:02 PM UTC Updated 3 hours ago

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WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President ​Donald Trump on Friday told ‌reporters he had spoken with Iraqi prime minister-designate Ali al-Zaidi on Thursday, ​and voiced strong support for ​him.

“With our help, he won, and ⁠we want him to do ​very well. And I told ​him that the United States is with him all the way. It was a ​great victory, the new head ​of Iraq is somebody that we support, ‌very ⁠strongly,” Trump told reporters before he departed the White House for a trip to Florida.

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Iraq’s alliance ​of Shi’ite ​political blocs, ⁠the Coordination Framework, on Monday named Zaidi as ​its nominee for the post ​of ⁠prime minister, a coalition statement said.

Washington is seeking to maintain close ⁠ties ​with Baghdad amid ​ongoing regional tensions and security concerns.

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Body found in Tampa Bay identified as 2nd missing University of South Florida doctoral student

May 1, 2026 / 2:31 PM EDT / CBS News

Human remains found recently in Tampa Bay have been identified as those of Nahida Bristy, the second missing University of South Florida doctoral student, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

Bristy and Zamil Limon, both 27, were last seen in the Tampa area on April 16. Limon’s body was found in multiple black plastic bags on the Howard Frankland Bridge across Tampa Bay last Friday.

Human remains believed to belong to Bristy were found in the waterways of Tampa Bay on Sunday. Dive teams were involved in the search for her body. Police have not yet shared a cause of death for either victim.

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister did not say what condition Bristy’s remains were in, but said that DNA and dental work, as well as clothing she had been wearing before her disappearance, allowed them to make the identification. Bristy’s family has been notified of the identification, Chronister said. Bristy’s family previously told CBS News that police had informed them that Bristy was likely dead.

Nahida Bristy is seen in a photo provided by the University of South Florida Police Department.

Limon’s roommate Hisham Abugarbieh has been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder, battery, false imprisonment, tampering with evidence, failure to report a death and unlawfully moving a body. He is being held without bond.

Abugharbieh, 26, allegedly asked ChatGPT how to dispose of a body in the days before the pair disappeared, according to court documents. Abugharbieh’s family has previously warned police about his erratic behavior, according to his younger brother Ahmad. Court records show Abugharbieh has been estranged from his family since 2023.

In a 2023 protective order granted by Hillsborough County and obtained by CBS News, Ahmad alleged that Abugharbieh sometimes acted violently and “would start screaming in the middle of the night about how he is God and we should all bow down to him.”

Omar Hossain, a friend of both Limon and Bristy, said that Limon also raised concerns about Abugharbieh.

Family members said Limon was studying the use of artificial intelligence in environmental science and was days away from presenting his thesis, while Bristy was studying chemical engineering. The pair previously dated, their families said.

Chronister said police are “now actively working to release both bodies for religious reasons” to their families in Bangladesh.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/new-evidence-on-suspects-search-history-in-apparent-murders-of-south-florida-students/

Guatemalan national given 3-year sentence for aggravated sexual abuse of a 5-year-old was encountered on the streets by ICE

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Published May 1, 2026 2:18pm EDT

Former Acting I.C.E. Director Jonathan Fahey ridicules Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s demand for DHS to pause all I.C.E. raids on Halloween weekend on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’

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EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security lambasted Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the state’s refusal to cooperate with ICE after an illegal immigrant convicted of child sexual abuse was released from jail despite calls for state officials to turn him over to federal authorities.

Both Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have repeatedly criticized the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement posture, with the mayor comparing President Donald Trump’s America to Jefferson Davis’ Confederacy.

Johnson has accused Trump of “declar[ing] war on Chicago” and using DHS as a “private, militarized, occupying force,” while pledging to fight them in the streets, the legislature and the judiciary. The state operates under the Illinois TRUST Act, a law championed by Springfield Democrats and signed by former Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner that prohibits the use of state and local resources for most civil immigration enforcement purposes.

“Governor Pritzker continues to refuse to do his job to protect his citizens from illegal alien crime and instead chooses to smear our law enforcement,” Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital.

NOEM, IN ILLINOIS, CALLS OUT GOV. PRITZKER, CHICAGO’S MAYOR OVER THEIR HANDLING OF CRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Gov. JB Pritzker, left; Erik Giovanni-Quiroa, right.(John Nacion/Getty Images; DHS)

“Where is the investigation into his own policies that allowed this pedophile to be released from jail and be loose in Illinois communities?” she added of the Hyatt Hotels heir and potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate.

Bis called on Pritzker to “end this insanity and stop releasing pedophiles into our communities.”

DHS told Fox News Digital exclusively that ICE officers went to Chicago and arrested Guatemalan national Erik Giovanni-Quiroa, who had been released from jail after his ICE detainer was ignored following a conviction for aggravated sexual abuse of a five-year-old child.

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Giovanni-Quiroa, who also had a 2011 firearm-battery conviction, was given a three-year sentence on the pedophilia charge but ICE instead encountered him on the streets.

Last week, ICE conducted a targeted vehicle stop and arrested Giovanni-Quiroa after his detainer was denied, forcing agents to locate him themselves.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker holds a news conference with other Illinois politicians and community leaders to address President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops into Chicago on Aug. 25, 2025 in Chicago, Ill.(Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Officials said Giovanni-Quiroa refused to stop and briefly fled before being placed in federal custody.

Bis said “sanctuary” politicians in Illinois and elsewhere continue to wrongly protect criminal illegal immigrants and allow them to reoffend and perpetrate additional crimes against Americans.

ICE previously called on Illinois law enforcement to begin honoring ICE detainers, as Director Todd Lyons wrote to Attorney General Kwame Raoul noting that DHS says more than 4,000 illegal immigrants are in state custody.

Giovanni-Quiroa illegally entered the U.S. under the second Bush administration and has been essentially a beneficiary of the aforementioned TRUST Act.

Erik Giovanni-Quiroa is seen in both this photo and accompanying mugshot.(DHS; DHS)

In the heat of “Operation: Midway Blitz” in June, Raoul published a memo reiterating key provisions of the law as a “refresher for Illinois law enforcement agencies.”

“It is important to note, however, that although the Illinois TRUST Act prevents the use of state and local resources for civil immigration enforcement purposes, it does not prevent law enforcement officers from taking action to maintain peace and ensure public safety within their jurisdiction,” Raoul wrote.

“Although some provisions of federal immigration statutes are criminal, deportation and removability are matters of civil law, not criminal law [and] whether an individual is lawfully present in the United States is a question of federal civil immigration law.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Raoul for comment on the current case, as well as Pritzker and Johnson.

When Rauner signed the TRUST Act in 2017, he said it would “continue Illinois’ history of welcoming immigrants and help law enforcement focus on stopping violent crime and protecting Illinois residents.”

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In that statement, Rauner also cited a federal court decision from the Chicago-based Northern District of Illinois in which an Obama-appointed judge whom President Joe Biden later promoted to an appeals court found flaws in ICE’s detainer process.

Judge John Z. Lee said in his 2019 order in Jimenez-Moreno v. Napolitano that immigration detainer orders exceeded DHS’ statutory authority but he also acknowledged a Philadelphia federal court ruling that ICE detainer requests do not violate the Tenth Amendment as alleged.

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FDA expands access to pancreatic cancer drug helping patients like Ben Sasse

May 1, 2026 / 3:14 PM EDT / CBS News

The Food and Drug Administration said it will allow some pancreatic cancer patients to receive access to a promising drug, even before it is officially approved for use.

The medication, daraxonrasib, is a pill taken three times a day. The drug blocks a signal that causes cancer cells to grow non-stop. Drugmaker Revolution Medicine reported that in a clinical trial, metastatic pancreatic cancer patients who took the drug survived a median of 13 months, compared to about six months for similar patients who underwent chemotherapy.

Former Sen. Ben Sasse, 54, called daraxonrasib “a miracle drug” in a conversation with “60 Minutes” and said it has helped him live longer and with less pain.

“I have much, much less pain than I had four months ago when I was diagnosed, and I have a massive 76% reduction in tumor volume over the last four months,” Sasse told Scott Pelley.

Daraxonrasib is being approved for use under the FDA’s expanded access program. Also called “compassionate use,” this option allows patients with serious or terminal conditions to take investigational therapies outside of a clinical trial. Patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who have no other options will be eligible to receive daraxonrasib, the FDA said.

Revolution Medicine submitted the request to expand access to daraxonrasib on April 28. The FDA approved the protocol on April 30. FDA commissioner Marty Makary said the timeline “reflects the FDA’s strong commitment to facilitate early access to therapies for serious and life-threatening conditions, including pancreatic cancer.”

“Having taken care of many patients with metastatic cancer, I am hopeful that today’s action will improve the lives of patients suffering from this disease,” Makary added.

The National Cancer Institute predicts that 67,530 new cases of pancreatic cancer will be diagnosed in 2026, and that 52,740 people will die from the disease during the same time. Pancreatic cancer accounts for 8.4% of cancer deaths, despite making up only 3.2% of new cancer cases. It has a five-year survival rate of about 13.7%, according to the NCI, but that can vary depending on a person’s individual prognosis and treatment.

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Democrat Tina Shah calls transgender healthcare for children a ‘no brainer’ in competitive NJ House race

2026-05-01T15:00:30-04:00 / Fox News

Shah is one of four Democrats seeking to challenge Rep. Tom Kean Jr in a district rated a toss-up by Cook Political Report

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Democratic candidate backs taxpayer-funded sex changes for minors

In a video obtained by Fox News Digital, Democratic House candidate Tina Shah said she supports providing sex changes for minors, arguing transgender children “have the right to healthcare.”

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A progressive candidate aiming to unseat a vulnerable Republican in a battleground House district is leaning into a politically fraught issue that has dogged the Democratic Party.

Tina Shah, an ER physician and former Biden administration official, appeared to back taxpayer-funded sex change procedures for minors in a video obtained by Fox News Digital.

When asked whether children should have the “right to transgender healthcare,” Shah replied, “This is a no-brainer.”

“Healthcare is a right, period,” the New Jersey Democrat added. “It includes transgender children.”

People gather in Union Square for the Together We Win rally supporting transgender youth in New York City on Jan. 10, 2026.(Jason Alpert-Wisnia/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)

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Shah is one of four relatively well-funded Democrats vying to take on Rep. Tom Kean Jr., R-N.J., in November’s midterm elections. Kean’s suburban swing seat is considered to be one of the most competitive House districts in the country.

Shah’s apparent embrace of “transgender healthcare” for minors aligns with the views of her former boss, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who denounced Republican-led states cracking down on child sex-change procedures during the Biden administration. Shah served as a senior advisor to Murthy in 2021 and 2022.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, House Republicans’ campaign arm, sharply criticized Shah’s support for “transgender healthcare” for children in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“Radical Democrat Tina Shah said it loud and clear: She’d be a vote for radical policies like sex changes for minors and taxpayer-funded drag queens,” NRCC spokeswoman Maureen O’Toole said. “Shah is completely out of step with Garden State families.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Shah’s campaign prior to publication.

Shah’s remarks come as some Democrats have blamed the party’s lurch to the left on the issue for its poor performance in the 2024 election.

Major medical groups, which previously offered full-throated support for child sex changes, have also largely retreated from the issue, with the American Medical Association in February saying those procedures should be generally postponed to adulthood.

Still, Democrats in Congress have not made a clear attempt to calibrate on transgender issues.

Just a handful of Democrats crossed party lines in 2025 to vote for GOP-authored legislation that would have criminalized child sex changes. Kean was among nearly all Republicans who supported the bill.

Rep. Tom Kean Jr., R-N.J., is running for a third House term in 2026 after fending off Democratic challengers in prior election cycles.(Getty Images)

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The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates Kean’s re-election bid as a “toss-up.” The election prognosticator downgraded the race for Republicans last year after Gov. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., carried the swing district by two points.

Shah entered April with nearly $1.4 million in the bank, according to recent Federal Election Commission filings. Navy veteran Rebecca Bennett and businessman Brian Valera, who are also vying for the Democratic nomination ahead of the June primary, have posted similar fundraising numbers.

Kean’s campaign notably dwarfs the field with roughly $3.4 million cash on hand.

The GOP incumbent, who fended off a competitive Democratic challenge in 2024, has come under recent scrutiny for a prolonged absence from Congress due to an unspecified health issue.

Gov. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., narrowly carried Rep. Tom Kean Jr.’s battleground district in 2025.(Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

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Kean has missed 52 roll call votes in the House since March 17, amounting to a 100% absence rate, according to GovTrack, a website that monitors congressional activities.

“My doctors continue to assure me that my recovery will be complete and that I will be back to the job I love very soon,” he said in a statement last week. “I expect to return to a full schedule and be at 100 percent.”

Trump says Iran war ‘terminated,’ as war powers deadline arrives

2026-05-01T16:34:42.554Z / Reuters

By Patricia Zengerle and Steve Holland

May 1, 2026 4:34 PM UTC Updated 16 mins ago

Smoke rises in Habboush following Israeli strikes, as seen from Nabatieh, Lebanon, May 1, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer

• Summary

• Deadline arrives as Iran sends new peace proposal
• War has roiled markets, raised prices, angering consumers
• Unpopular conflict continues six months before US elections

WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump declared that a ceasefire had “terminated” hostilities against ​Iran, as he sought to bolster his argument that he does not need lawmakers’ permission to continue the conflict.

In a letter to ‌congressional leaders on Friday, the deadline to come to Congress about the war, Trump said there has been no exchange of fire with Iran since the ceasefire. “The hostilities that began on February 28, 2026, have terminated,” he said.

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Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, a U.S. president can wage military action for only 60 days before ending it, asking Congress for ​authorization or seeking a 30-day extension due to “unavoidable military necessity regarding the safety of United States Armed Forces” while withdrawing forces.

On Friday, Iranian ​state news agency IRNA said Tehran had sent its latest proposal for negotiations with the U.S. to Pakistani mediators. Trump ⁠swiftly rejected it.

The president formally notified Congress of the conflict 48 hours after the first airstrikes two months ago, starting the 60-day clock that ends ​May 1.

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As the date approached, congressional aides and analysts said they expected the Republican president to sidestep the deadline. A senior Trump administration official had said on Thursday ​the administration’s view was that the war powers law deadline did not apply.

Trump said he considered the war powers law unconstitutional. Both Republican and Democratic presidents have contended the measure violated the Constitution because it sets limits on the president’s powers as commander-in-chief. Legal experts say the matter has not been decided by the courts.

“We had a ceasefire, so that ​gives you additional time,” Trump said before leaving Washington for Florida.

NO WAY OUT: DEMOCRATIC SENATOR

Congressional Democrats, who have tried repeatedly to pass war powers legislation ​that would force Trump to end the war or come to Congress for authorization, dismissed that characterization, saying there was nothing in the 1973 law allowing for a ceasefire.

They ‌also said ⁠that the continuing deployment of U.S. ships blockading Iranian oil exports was evidence of continuing hostility, not a ceasefire.

“After sixty days of conflict, President Trump still does not have a strategy or way out for this poorly planned war,” Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement calling the deadline “a clear legal threshold” for Trump to act.

In his letter to Congress, Trump acknowledged that the conflict may not be ​resolved. He said Iran still poses ​a “significant” threat to the United States ⁠and its armed forces.

PARTY LOYALTY AS ELECTIONS LOOM

Trump’s fellow Republicans, who hold slim majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives and rarely break from Trump, have voted almost unanimously to block every resolution seeking to end the conflict.

The Iran ​war has killed thousands, caused billions of dollars in damage and roiled world markets, disrupting energy shipments and boosting a ​wide range of consumer ⁠prices.

Polls show the war is unpopular among Americans, six months before November elections that will determine who controls Congress next year.

The U.S. Constitution says only Congress, not the president, can declare war, but that restriction does not apply to short-term operations or to counter an immediate threat.

On Thursday, Trump received a briefing on plans for ⁠fresh military ​strikes to compel Iran to negotiate an end to the conflict.

If fighting resumes, Trump can tell ​lawmakers he has started a new 60-day clock. Presidents from both parties have repeatedly done so when waging intermittent hostilities since Congress passed the war powers law in response to the Vietnam ​War.

That conflict, widely unpopular with Americans, was also not authorized by Congress.

Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; additional reporting by Bo Erickson; Editing by Don Durfee and Rod Nickel

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