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ICE Suspends Most Vehicle Stops After Two Deadly Shootings in a Week

NPR News: 07-15-2026 6AM EDT · Jul 15, 2026 News

After an ICE officer shot and killed a Colombian national in Maine — the second such deadly shooting in barely a week — the Trump administration ordered ICE to halt most vehicle stops. DHS policy bars use of deadly force solely to prevent flight unless the person poses a significant threat, but a former ICE chief counsel notes the threshold is always judged from the officer's perspective.

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Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Visa Ban on Content Moderation Researchers

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NPR's Shannon Bond reports that a federal judge has put the brakes on one of the Trump administration's more controversial immigration moves: a visa ban targeting foreign nationals deemed 'complicit in censoring Americans'. The State Department framed the policy as protecting free speech, but a coalition of independent tech researchers saw it differently — filing suit in March and arguing the ban was itself an act of censorship, an attempt to purge viewpoints the government dislikes from the content moderation ecosystem. US District Judge James Boasberg agreed with that framing, at least preliminarily, finding the plaintiffs' arguments likely to succeed and ordering the policy suspended while the litigation proceeds. The State Department declined to comment. For the researchers who brought the case, the ruling is a significant early victory in a fight over who gets to shape the rules of online speech.

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