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  A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump has blocked the administration’s bid to deport hundreds of   Guatemalan children   to their home country, concluding that U.S. officials’ claims about the operation had “crumbled like a house of cards.” U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly issued a preliminary injunction Thursday, extending  a block on the deportations  first issued by Biden-appointed Judge Sparkle Sooknanan last month. Sooknanan, who was the emergency judge on call over Labor Day weekend, raced to block the operation after immigrant rights’ lawyers sued in the middle of the night as the children were being picked up from startled caregivers and loaded onto planes. A Justice Department attorney told Sooknanan at the time that the lawsuit to block the deportations was “outrageous” because parents of the children had requested their return and some were waiting at an airport in Guatemala for them. After Sooknanan’s ruling, Trump allies — including...

  President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. is trying to reclaim the Afghanistan airbase that American troops abandoned in 2021 during their withdrawal from the country. Trump has repeatedly attacked former President Joe Biden for handing over Bagram Airfield, the largest American military base in the country and a logistics hub for the 20-year international war effort there. “We’re trying to get it back,” he said during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, adding that it’s “about an hour away from where China is developing its nuclear weapons.” Trump did not elaborate as to whether his administration was speaking with the Taliban or how reclaiming the base tied into the Chinese nuclear program. The U.S. in 2021  unceremoniously handed over Bagram  — the hub of its post-9/11 war effort to oust the Taliban and target al-Qaeda — to Afghan forces. It was the most visible step to that point in the U.S. military withdrawal. Trump has...

  The Trump administration asked the US supreme court to allow it to fire the   Federal Reserve   governor   Lisa Cook , as it continues its extraordinary attack on the central bank’s independence. Related:  The Federal Reserve’s independence is about to be tested like never before In a filing on Thursday, Donald Trump’s officials requested an emergency order to remove Cook from the Fed’s board of governors, after an appeals court refused to go along with efforts to oust her. The request sets the stage for an historic test of presidential power. Trump has sought to fire Cook – citing  unconfirmed allegations of mortgage fraud  – while he pursues greater control of the Fed, which has for decades operated without political interference. But lawyers for Cook, who has denied wrongdoing, have argued that the US president has no authority to fire her. Related:  ‘Pattern of lawfare’: Trump is targeting opponents with mortgage fraud claims The administrat...