U.S. Senator, D-Illinois; filed a brief backing the lower-court ruling
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The Eighth Circuit ruled the Federal Reserve overstepped when it set a one-size-fits-all debit swipe fee limit. The Fed must now rework a fee that touches almost every card purchase.
A new analysis from a nonpartisan research group counts about 980,000 deportations in the first 18 months of President Trump's second term. Most of the people deported had no criminal record, and the yearly totals are below the 1 million the White House promised.
A new Migration Policy Institute analysis finds deportations are up but still short of Trump's promised 1 million a year. Only about 20% of the people removed had been convicted of a crime, even as the administration says it is going after the "worst of the worst."
