Trump admin. is still resisting the judge’s orders in Abrego Garcia deportation case

(AP) — The Trump administration continues to resist a judge’s orders to provide information on efforts to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S. from El Salvador. Administration lawyers asked the judge on Wednesday to stay the order for seven days. The request comes just hours after U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis blasted the administration for ignoring her orders by refusing to provide information. Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported from Maryland to his native El Salvador last month. The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration nearly two weeks ago to facilitate his return.

FSU students who endured Parkland shooting urge Fla. lawmakers to defend gun control law

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida students who were traumatized by the 2018 Parkland school shooting — and last week’s deadly shooting at Florida State University — are urging lawmakers in the Republican-controlled statehouse not to roll back gun restrictions they passed in the wake of the killing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Two people were killed and six others injured in the shooting last Thursday that terrorized FSU’s campus, about a mile from the state Capitol. Logan Rubenstein, a 21-year-old junior at FSU, says it could have been much worse, if a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers hadn’t taken action after Parkland.

Remains of mom, child found near New York’s Gilgo Beach ID’d

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A woman and her child whose remains were among other bodies discovered scattered along an oceanfront highway not far from Long Island’s Gilgo Beach were identified by police Wednesday, nearly three decades after the double homicide. Police in Nassau County said the mother, previously nicknamed “Peaches” by investigators after a tattoo on her body, had been identified as Tanya Denise Jackson, a U.S. Army veteran and single mother who was 26-year-old at the time of her death. Some of the woman’s remains were discovered in a state park in 1997. More remains, and the skeletal remains of the female child, were found in April 2011.

Palestinian student remains detained in Vermont with a hearing set for next week

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship has made an initial appearance in a Vermont courthouse. Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident for 10 years, was arrested April 14 at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vermont, by immigration authorities. Mahdawi’s lawyers say he was detained in retaliation for his speech advocating for Palestinian human rights. A judge on Wednesday extended a temporary order keeping Mahdawi in Vermont and scheduled a hearing for next week.