Lawmakers call for release of Afghan interpreter detained by Ice at green card appointment

Lawmakers are calling for the release of an Afghan interpreter, who worked with the US military for years in his home country, who was seized by armed, masked Ice agents after a routine appointment for his green card.

The former wartime interpreter, identified only as Zia for his safety and that of his family, aided American troops in Afghanistan for about five years during the war and fled the country with his family after the Taliban resumed power in 2021.

Zia entered the US legally in October 2024 through JFK airport with humanitarian parole and an approved Special Immigrant Visa. Ice arrested him following a routine biometrics appointment for his green card in East Hartford, Connecticut, last week.

After originally being detained in Connecticut, Zia was transported to a detention facility in Plymouth, Massachusetts. His attorney, Lauren Petersen, told a press call on Tuesday:

Zia has done everything right. He’s followed the rules. He has no criminal history.

Zia has been placed in expedited removal proceedings, Petersen said. Reuters has a statement from the Department of Homeland Security saying that he is under investigation for a “serious criminal allegation,” adding: “All of his claims will be heard by a judge. Any Afghan who fears persecution is able to request relief.”

While a judge has temporarily stayed Zia’s removal, he remains in detention. Petersen said he is terrified he’ll be returned back to Afghanistan.

Following the rules are supposed to protect you. It’s not supposed to land you in detention. If he is deported, as so many of the people have articulated today, he faces death.

During the press conference, Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal, of Connecticut, called Ice arrests of Afghan allies like Zia “a violation of basic trust” and vowed to fight for his release.

What happened to him is the worst kind of abhorrent violation of basic decency. Put aside the legal causes and the issues here for unmasked agents to snatch someone off the street with no warning, no counsel, no opportunity even to know who is doing it while it’s in process is un-American.

To Zia, we have your back. We’re going to fight for you. We’re going to leave no stone unturned.

Democratic representative Jahana Hayes, of Connecticut, said she had been contacted by Zia’s family directly following the arrest because they didn’t know where he was being held.

Our credibility is at stake. We have families who have risked everything not just for themselves, but for their entire family. They have risked their health and safety. And in the name of standing up for the promises of our American democracy, that could not have been easy at the time. So this betrayal has to be that much more difficult in this moment.

Democratic representative Bill Keating, of Massachusetts, told the press call:

This isn’t about one person. This is about thousands of people. This is about our veterans. If their word means nothing when they’re on the battlefield, risking their lives, and being saved in so many instances by the support of people like Zia who are giving this services as their family and their own lives are being threatened and tortured, then what does that mean for our word going forward?

The Trump administration has requested that the small Pacific nation of Palau accept asylum seekers currently residing in the US, amid a wider push from the US to deport migrants to countries they are not from.

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Palau, a country of about 18,000, is considering a draft agreement to resettle “third country nationals” from the US who “may seek protection and against return to their home country”. The draft agreement does not detail how many individuals may be sent to Palau, nor what the Pacific nation would receive in return.

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“Both Parties shall take into account … requests by third country nationals for asylum, refugee protection, or equivalent temporary protection,” the draft agreement, seen by the Guardian, states. “The Government of the United States of America shall not transfer unaccompanied minors pursuant to this Agreement.”

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A letter from Palau’s president Surangel Whipps Jr regarding the draft agreement and seen by the Guardian, makes clear the proposal is far from final and is subject to further discussion. It also states Palau would have “full discretion to decide whether or not to accept any individuals.”

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The request to Palau marks the latest attempt by the Trump administration to remove migrants from within its borders. A supreme court ruling in June paved the way for the US government to remove migrants and transfer them to countries they are not from. Since then, the US has completed the transfer of migrants including South Sudan and Eswatini.

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Donald Trump’s advisers have for now abandoned an effort to find a new chief of staff to serve the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, allowing senior adviser Ricky Buria, whom they once considered a liability, to continue performing the duties in an acting capacity, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Buria is not expected to formally receive the White House’s approval to become the permanent chief of staff to Hegseth, a position that became vacant after the first chief of staff, Joe Kasper, left in the wake of major upheaval in the secretary’s front office earlier this year.

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But the attempt by the Trump advisers to block Buria from getting the job has fizzled in recent months as the news cycle moved away from the controversies that dogged Hegseth at the start of Trump’s term and officials lost interest in managing personnel at the Pentagon, the people said.

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As a result, Buria has become a regular presence in the West Wing for briefings in the situation room and with senior White House and administration officials, and secured his standing at the Pentagon, where he is widely referred to as “Chief Ricky”.

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The developments are sure to also be a relief for Hegseth, who for months has been staring down the prospect of having his closest aide shunted aside because of concerns at the White House about a growing portrait of dysfunction in his front office.

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White House officials may yet revisit installing a replacement for the chief of staff position, which plays a key role in managing Hegseth’s front office and setting the direction of the $1tn defense department that oversees more than 2 million troops around the world.

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And it is uncertain if the extent to which senior White House and administration officials are now interacting with Buria is more because he is the only Hegseth aide empowered by the secretary to serve as his top staffer, rather than a vote of confidence by Trump’s advisers.

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A spokesperson for the Pentagon referred reporting for this story to the White House. A spokesperson for the White House in a statement offered praise for Hegseth for “restoring readiness and lethality to our military and putting our warfighters first after four years of ineptitude and abject failure by the Biden administration”.

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An official familiar with the negotiations has said today that US special envoy Steve Witkoff planned to head to Rome for talks with an Israeli official as the US tries to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, the Associated Press reports.

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It comes as more than 100 aid agencies today issued a dire warning that “mass starvation” is spreading across Gaza and urged Israel to let humanitarian aid into the besieged strip to alleviate the growing man-made crisis.

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“Just outside Gaza, in warehouses – and even within Gaza itself – tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items and fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them,” the agencies wrote. “The Government of Israel’s restrictions, delays, and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation, and death.”

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The statement quoted an aid worker in Gaza who said: “Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food.”

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The letter comes as increasing numbers of people in Gaza have begun dying from lack of food, the result of a starvation crisis that aid groups warned for months was imminent. Israel continues to claim with no evidence that Hamas is stealing food.

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Israel’s military assault on Gaza has killed at least 59,000 Palestinian people, thousands of whom were children.

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You can find our live coverage of the crisis here:

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The state department has opened an investigation into Harvard University’s eligibility as a sponsor in its exchange visitor program, secretary of state Marco Rubio has said in a statement.

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“The investigation will ensure that State Department programs do not run contrary to our nation’s interests,” he said.

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After originally being detained in Connecticut, Zia was transported to a detention facility in Plymouth, Massachusetts. His attorney, Lauren Petersen, told a press call on Tuesday:

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Zia has done everything right. He’s followed the rules. He has no criminal history.

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While a judge has temporarily stayed Zia’s removal, he remains in detention. Petersen said he is terrified he’ll be returned back to Afghanistan.

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Following the rules are supposed to protect you. It’s not supposed to land you in detention. If he is deported, as so many of the people have articulated today, he faces death.

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What happened to him is the worst kind of abhorrent violation of basic decency. Put aside the legal causes and the issues here for unmasked agents to snatch someone off the street with no warning, no counsel, no opportunity even to know who is doing it while it’s in process is un-American.

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To Zia, we have your back. We’re going to fight for you. We’re going to leave no stone unturned.

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Democratic representative Jahana Hayes, of Connecticut, said she had been contacted by Zia’s family directly following the arrest because they didn’t know where he was being held.

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Our credibility is at stake. We have families who have risked everything not just for themselves, but for their entire family. They have risked their health and safety. And in the name of standing up for the promises of our American democracy, that could not have been easy at the time. So this betrayal has to be that much more difficult in this moment.

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Democratic representative Bill Keating, of Massachusetts, told the press call:

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This isn’t about one person. This is about thousands of people. This is about our veterans. If their word means nothing when they’re on the battlefield, risking their lives, and being saved in so many instances by the support of people like Zia who are giving this services as their family and their own lives are being threatened and tortured, then what does that mean for our word going forward?

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Maanvi Singh, Will Craft and Andrew Witherspoon

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In the six months since Donald Trump took office, the US president has supercharged the country’s immigration enforcement apparatus – pushing immigration officials to arrest a record number of people in June.

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A Guardian analysis of arrest and deportation data has revealed that Trump is now overseeing a sweeping mass arrest and incarceration scheme.

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The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency does not publish daily arrest, detention and deportation data. But a team of lawyers and academics from the Deportation Data Project used a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to obtain a dataset that provides the most detailed picture yet of the US immigration enforcement and detention system under Trump.

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A Guardian analysis of the dataset found:

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In June this year, average daily arrests were up 268% compared with June 2024.

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Ice is increasingly targeting any and all unauthorized immigrants, including people who have no criminal records.

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Despite Trump’s claims that his administration is seeking out the “worst of the worst”, the majority of people being arrested by Ice now have no criminal convictions.

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Detention facilities have been increasingly overcrowded, and the US system is over capacity by more than 13,500 people.

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The number of deportations, however, has fluctuated as the administration pursues new strategies and policies to swiftly expel people from the US.

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The US government has deported more than 8,100 people to countries that are not their home country.

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday told Bloomberg TV in an interview that the Trump administration was not in a rush to nominate a new Federal Reserve Chair to replace Jerome Powell.

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After years of heated attacks on Powell, the Trump administration has begun suggesting recent costly renovations at the central bank’s Washington DC buildings could justify firing Powell.

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Donald Trump’s antipathy for Powell stems mainly from the central bank boss’s refusal to lower interest rates – something the president has repeatedly called for.

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Bessent said he continues to have regular meetings with Powell and that Powell had not told him whether he would leave his board seat.

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For a full explainer on whether Trump could fire Powell, read here:

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The Trump administration is continuing its deportations policy, which has been described as “human trafficking disguised as a deportation deal” by the largest opposition party in Eswatini. Civil society and opposition groups expressed outrage after the US deported five men to the country. You can read our full story here.

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Attorneys and members of Congress have also told how an Afghan man who moved to America after working for the US military in his home country was seized by armed, masked immigration agents, put in a van and taken out of state. Identified only as Zia by members of Congress and his attorney out of concern for his safety and that of his family, the man had worked as an interpreter for the military during the war in Afghanistan. He was in the United States legally and was arrested after an appointment in Connecticut related to his application for a green card.

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Bryan Kohberger, 30, a former criminal-justice doctoral student, faces life in prison without the possibility of parole or appeal under a deal with prosecutors that spared him the death penalty in return for his guilty plea to four counts of first-degree murder. The proceedings today in a county courtroom in Boise, the state capital, also will afford family members the chance to directly address Kohberger through the presentation of victim impact statements.

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China’s foreign ministry said Washington’s decision – to pull the US out of what Donald Trump called the “woke” and “divisive” UN culture and education agency Unesco – was “not the behaviour expected of a responsible major country”, and expressed China’s staunch support of Unesco’s work, its spokesperson told reporters during a press briefing on Wednesday.

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European shares climbed more than 1% on Wednesday, led by automobile stocks, after the US president revived hopes for a trade deal with the European Union after an agreement with Japan.

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US-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10m (£7.39m) are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.

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The dollar struggled on Wednesday, while the yen was choppy after Trump announced a trade deal with Japan, bolstering optimism for more agreements ahead of an impending tariff deadline. The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against major peers, was at 97.48 after a three-day decline, hovering near its lowest level since 10 July. The gauge has lost 6.6% since Trump’s “liberation day” tariff announcement on 2 April.

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The Trump administration is set to release a new artificial intelligence blueprint on Wednesday that aims to relax American rules governing the industry at the center of a technological arms race between economic rivals the US and China.

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President Donald Trump will mark the plan’s release with a speech outlining the importance of winning an AI race that is increasingly seen as a defining feature of 21st-century geopolitics, with both China and the US investing heavily in the industry to secure economic and military superiority.

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According to a summary seen by Reuters, the plan calls for the export of US AI technology abroad and a crackdown on state laws deemed too restrictive to let it flourish, a marked departure from former President Joe Biden’s “high fence” approach that limited global access to coveted AI chips.

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Top administration officials such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House National Economic Adviser Kevin Hassett are also expected to join the event titled “Winning the AI Race,” organized by White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks and his co-hosts on the “All-In” podcast, according to an event schedule reviewed by Reuters.

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Behind closed doors at a New York City federal building, people are confined after being seized by officers on their way out of immigration court on the 12th floor. This rare look inside a closely guarded space captures part of Donald Trump’s anti-immigration crackdown:

Footage reveals harsh conditions inside Ice’s New York City confinement centre – video

Trump administration asks tiny Pacific nation of Palau to accept migrants deported from US

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aerial view of green islands in the sea — The Trump administration has requested that the tiny Pacific nation of Palau take in asylum seekers from the US. Photograph: Hollie Adams/Reuters

Trump advisers abandon effort to find new chief of staff to serve Pete Hegseth

Hugo Lowell

Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon on 21 July. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Dharna Noor

David Richardson, the acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), on Wednesday faced accusations that he had mismanaged his agency’s recent deadly floods in Texas.

“This wasn’t just incompetence. It wasn’t just indifference. It was both,” representative Greg Stanton, a Democrat from Arizona, told Richardson at the House transportation and infrastructure committee hearing. “And that deadly combination likely cost lives.”

The hearing came after a slew of reports saying Richardson was nowhere to be found during the flood. Earlier, the acting director, who has no previous response in disaster management, reportedly said he was unaware that hurricane season exists in the US — something the White House later said was a “joke.”

Richardson denied any agency wrongdoing in the Texas floods. “What happened in Texas was an absolute tragedy,” he said.

He and other Trump officials are aiming to restore the agency to its original goals, he said, encouraging states to take on more financial and logistical responsibility for disasters.

“Fema has lost sight of its original intent,” he said. “Under the leadership of the president and the secretary we are returning to this mission focus moving forward.”

Members of a search and rescue team visit a memorial wall for flood victims on 13 July in Kerrville, Texas. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP

In response to this argument, representative Rick Larsen, ranking member of the House committee, came to the hearing armed with the Congressional Research Service’s list of the 518 actions which fema is mandated to follow.

“Currently, Fema doesn’t follow all these laws,” he said. In response, Richardson said the agency had done it “own mission analysis.”

“What we did, and I can commit to, is that we developed eight mission essential tasks that we have to do by statute,” he said.

Study after study shows that flooding like this summer’s in Texas is becoming more severe and more common amid the climate crisis. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat from Washington, DC, asked Richardson if he believes fossil fuels are the primary cause of the climate crisis, and if he thinks extreme weather is increasing.

Richardson was noncommittal in his answer. “What I believe is that we will address disasters regardless of their origin,” he said.

Nina Lakhani

Here is my colleague Nina Lakhani’s report on Zia, the Afghan wartime translator granted a US immigration visa after risking his life to help US troops who has been detained by masked Ice agents.

The case is the latest sign that the Trump administration is willing to flout legal agreements and promises to allies in pursuit of its unprecedented immigration crackdown, Nina writes.

Zia fled Afghanistan with his family after the Taliban takeover in 2021, and legally entered the US in October 2024 through JFK airport with humanitarian parole – and an approved special immigrant visa (SIV). This visa is a pathway to permanent residency, or a green card, for certain foreign nationals who have worked for the US government or military in specific capacities, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Zia is the third known Afghan ally who helped US troops to have been seized by Ice since Trump returned to power, amid growing outrage at the administration’s actions.

More than 70,000 Afghans were granted permission to enter the US under Joe Biden’s “Operation Allies Welcome” initiative, which followed the bungled America exit and subsequent Taliban takeover in 2021.

Some, like Zia, have a SIV and pathway to permanent residency, while about 12,000 or so have temporary protected status (TPS) – a type of work visa granted to people already in the US who cannot return to their home countries due to armed conflicts, natural disasters or other extraordinary events.

The Trump administration is seeking to terminate TPS status for multiple countries including Venezuela, Haiti and Afghanistan – despite ongoing unstable and dangerous conditions in those countries.

Top adviser to Netanyahu will meet US envoy amid spiraling Gaza starvation crisis

The statement quoted an aid worker in Gaza who said: “Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food.”

Israel’s military assault on Gaza has killed at least 59,000 Palestinian people, thousands of whom were children.

You can find our live coverage of the crisis here:

State department opens investigation into Harvard’s participation in exchange visitor program

The state department has opened an investigation into Harvard University’s eligibility as a sponsor in its exchange visitor program, secretary of state Marco Rubio has said in a statement.

“The investigation will ensure that State Department programs do not run contrary to our nation’s interests,” he said.

Donald Trump has reiterated his criticism of Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell – who he said “just doesn’t get it” – amid his ongoing call for lower rates, and called on the central bank’s board to act.

“Our Rate should be three points lower than they are, saving us $1 Trillion per year (as a Country). This stubborn guy at the Fed just doesn’t get it — Never did, and never will. The Board should act, but they don’t have the Courage to do so!” Trump wrote on his social media platform.

Earlier, treasury secretary Scott Bessent told Bloomberg TV in an interview that the Trump administration was not in a rush to nominate a new Fed chair to replace Powell.

The president can’t fire the Fed chair, but he has recently been trying to find a legal workaround, accusing Powell of potentially lying to Congress about the $2.5bn renovations taking place at the Fed’s headquarters in Washington.

Powell has asked an inspector general to review the costs of the renovations, which were originally slated to cost $1.9bn but rose to $2.5bn due to “unforeseen conditions”, according to the Fed’s website.

Lawmakers call for release of Afghan interpreter detained by Ice at green card appointment

After originally being detained in Connecticut, Zia was transported to a detention facility in Plymouth, Massachusetts. His attorney, Lauren Petersen, told a press call on Tuesday:

Zia has done everything right. He’s followed the rules. He has no criminal history.

While a judge has temporarily stayed Zia’s removal, he remains in detention. Petersen said he is terrified he’ll be returned back to Afghanistan.

Following the rules are supposed to protect you. It’s not supposed to land you in detention. If he is deported, as so many of the people have articulated today, he faces death.

What happened to him is the worst kind of abhorrent violation of basic decency. Put aside the legal causes and the issues here for unmasked agents to snatch someone off the street with no warning, no counsel, no opportunity even to know who is doing it while it’s in process is un-American.

To Zia, we have your back. We’re going to fight for you. We’re going to leave no stone unturned.

Democratic representative Jahana Hayes, of Connecticut, said she had been contacted by Zia’s family directly following the arrest because they didn’t know where he was being held.

Our credibility is at stake. We have families who have risked everything not just for themselves, but for their entire family. They have risked their health and safety. And in the name of standing up for the promises of our American democracy, that could not have been easy at the time. So this betrayal has to be that much more difficult in this moment.

Democratic representative Bill Keating, of Massachusetts, told the press call:

This isn’t about one person. This is about thousands of people. This is about our veterans. If their word means nothing when they’re on the battlefield, risking their lives, and being saved in so many instances by the support of people like Zia who are giving this services as their family and their own lives are being threatened and tortured, then what does that mean for our word going forward?

Revealed: How Trump has supercharged the US’s immigration crackdown

Maanvi Singh, Will Craft and Andrew Witherspoon

A Guardian analysis of arrest and deportation data has revealed that Trump is now overseeing a sweeping mass arrest and incarceration scheme.

A Guardian analysis of the dataset found:

In June this year, average daily arrests were up 268% compared with June 2024.
Ice is increasingly targeting any and all unauthorized immigrants, including people who have no criminal records.
Despite Trump’s claims that his administration is seeking out the “worst of the worst”, the majority of people being arrested by Ice now have no criminal convictions.
Detention facilities have been increasingly overcrowded, and the US system is over capacity by more than 13,500 people.
The number of deportations, however, has fluctuated as the administration pursues new strategies and policies to swiftly expel people from the US.
The US government has deported more than 8,100 people to countries that are not their home country.

Trump administration not in a rush to replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday told Bloomberg TV in an interview that the Trump administration was not in a rush to nominate a new Federal Reserve Chair to replace Jerome Powell.

After years of heated attacks on Powell, the Trump administration has begun suggesting recent costly renovations at the central bank’s Washington DC buildings could justify firing Powell.

Donald Trump’s antipathy for Powell stems mainly from the central bank boss’s refusal to lower interest rates – something the president has repeatedly called for.

Bessent said he continues to have regular meetings with Powell and that Powell had not told him whether he would leave his board seat.

For a full explainer on whether Trump could fire Powell, read here:

US President Donald Trump has created a lot of leverage on trade with his letters on tariff rates, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Bloomberg Television in an interview on Wednesday.

“President Trump is creating this leverage by saying: if you don’t want to negotiate with me, I’ve sent you a letter with a high rate. Have at the high rate or come and negotiate in better fashion,” Bessent said.

US Treasury Secretary Bessent attends USA National Day at Osaka Expo 2025 Photograph: Soichiro Koriyama/EPA

The European Commission plans to submit counter-tariffs on €93bn ($109bn) of US goods for approval to EU members, while its trade chief will hold talks with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

The Commission said on Wednesday its primary focus was to achieve a negotiated outcome with the United States to avert 30% US tariffs that US President Donald Trump has said he will impose on the 27-nation bloc on 1 August.

European Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič will speak with Lutnick on Wednesday afternoon, the Commission said, before Commission officials brief EU ambassadors on the state of play.

The Commission said it would in parallel press on with potential countermeasures. It said it would merge its two sets of possible tariffs of €21bn and €72bn into a single list.

US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick testifies before a House Appropriations Committee in Washington Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters

A German court on Wednesday acquitted a satirist who was charged with having approved of an assassination attempt against Donald Trump during last year’s US election campaign in a social media post and disturbed the public peace.

In a quickly deleted post under his alias “El Hotzo” on X in July last year, Sebastian Hotz drew a parallel between Trump and “the last bus” and wrote “unfortunately just missed.” In a follow-up post, he wrote: “I find it absolutely fantastic when fascists die.”

A gunman opened fire at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, while Trump was campaigning for president last July, grazing Trump’s ear and killing one of his supporters in the crowd. Trump went on to win the White House in November.

Judge Andrea Wilms said in her ruling that Hotz’s post was satire that should go unpunished, even if the comments may have been tasteless. She argued that no one would feel called upon to commit acts of violence by “such clearly satirical utterances,” according to a court statement.

Comedian and satirist Sebastian Hotz, alias El Hotzo, attends the trial against him at Tiergarten district court, where the public prosecutor’s office accuses him of rewarding and condoning criminal acts, after a year ago the 29-year-old made controversial comments on Platform X about the assassination attempt on then US presidential candidate Trump, in Berlin, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. Photograph: Bernd von Jutrczenka/AP

The US Federal Reserve’s independence is under threat from mounting political interference, according to a clear majority of economists polled by Reuters, although no one expects a July interest rate cut despite a recent divergence in views among policymakers.

President Donald Trump has made it almost a daily routine to personally attack Fed Chair Jerome Powell over the central bank’s stance of holding rates due to tariff-related risks of higher inflation. A recent jump in inflation suggests businesses are now passing some of the tariffs onto consumers.

Most Federal Market Open Committee members favor holding rates steady, but a few, including Governor Chris Waller and Trump appointee Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman, have recently advocated a reduction as soon as July 30.

Powell’s term is set to expire in May 2026. Waller last week said he would accept the job as the bank’s head if he was offered it by Trump.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell chats during a break at the Federal Reserve's Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 22, 2025. — U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell chats during a break at the Federal Reserve’s Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 22, 2025. Photograph: Ken Cedeno/Reuters

Representatives from China and the United States will meet next week in the Swedish capital Stockholm to try and hammer out a deal before an August 12 deadline agreed in May.

China said it will send its vice premier to US trade talks next week to secure its own agreement after US President Donald Trump announced a “massive” trade deal with Japan.

In an attempt to slash his country’s colossal trade deficit, the US president has vowed to hit dozens of countries with punitive “reciprocal” tariffs if they do not hammer out a pact with Washington by August 1.

As the clock ticks down, China said Wednesday it will seek to “strengthen cooperation” with Washington at the talks, and confirmed vice premier He Lifeng would attend.

Trump to outline blueprint to win the AI race

Donald Trump Reception with Republican of Congress in Washington, District of Columbia, United States - 22 Jul 2025 — Donald Trump Reception with Republican of Congress in Washington, District of Columbia, United States – 22 Jul 2025
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Afghan man moving to US seized by immigration agents after green card application appointment

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Bryan Kohberger, 30, a former criminal-justice doctoral student, faces life in prison without the possibility of parole or appeal under a deal with prosecutors that spared him the death penalty in return for his guilty plea to four counts of first-degree murder. The proceedings today in a county courtroom in Boise, the state capital, also will afford family members the chance to directly address Kohberger through the presentation of victim impact statements.
China’s foreign ministry said Washington’s decision – to pull the US out of what Donald Trump called the “woke” and “divisive” UN culture and education agency Unesco – was “not the behaviour expected of a responsible major country”, and expressed China’s staunch support of Unesco’s work, its spokesperson told reporters during a press briefing on Wednesday.
European shares climbed more than 1% on Wednesday, led by automobile stocks, after the US president revived hopes for a trade deal with the European Union after an agreement with Japan.
US-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10m (£7.39m) are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.
The US embassy in the Philippines has said the US has announced PHP 3bn (£39m) in foreign assistance for the country.
The dollar struggled on Wednesday, while the yen was choppy after Trump announced a trade deal with Japan, bolstering optimism for more agreements ahead of an impending tariff deadline. The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against major peers, was at 97.48 after a three-day decline, hovering near its lowest level since 10 July. The gauge has lost 6.6% since Trump’s “liberation day” tariff announcement on 2 April.

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