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  • Reuters

    Exclusive-Jared Kushner pitching donors on father-in-law Trump, sources say

    Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been making calls to encourage donors to attend a Trump fundraiser in New York, two sources told Reuters, in one of the first indications of Kushner working to help re-elect his father-in-law. A former White House adviser to the former president, Kushner stepped away from politics after Trump's term ended in 2021 and founded Miami-based private equity firm Affinity Partners. His wife Ivanka, Trump's daughter, declared at the beginning of Trump's third run for the presidency in November 2022 that she did not plan to be involved in his campaign and wanted to prioritize her children.

  • ABC News

    Homeland Security proposes change to asylum-seeking process

    The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday a proposed change to the process for those seeking asylum in the United States that would streamline security assessments. The new proposal would allow asylum officers to determine earlier in the process whether an asylum-seeker is a national security risk and therefore ineligible to stay in the United States, the agency said. The new rule aims to allow that determination to be made during the initial screening phase over a number of reasons including "terrorism, national security or criminal bar," the agency said.

  • NBC Sports Chicago

    Former Bears player Buster Skrine on the run from Canadian police: Police

    Canadian police are currently pursuing former Bears cornerback Buster Skrine, the Durham Regional Police Department confirmed on Wednesday. Skrine, 35, was expected to see a judge on May 6 in Durham Region relating to allegations of defrauding Canadian banks with fake checks in 2023, but he missed the date. Authorities say his GPS ankle bracelet is inactive, too. The former...