Trump’s labor pick backed unions. It might cost her votes.

特朗普的劳工人选支持工会。这可能会让她失去选票。

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2025-02-21

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On today’s show: Aboard a U.S. deportation flight of mostly Asian migrants to Costa Rica, half are minors, NBC News reports. Meanwhile, hundreds of people deported from the U.S. are being held in a Panama hotel, according to BBC News. Ankush Khardori, a senior writer at Politico Magazine, joins this week’s Apple News In Conversation to examine how Trump is testing the boundaries of executive authority. A Trump Cabinet selection received a rare Republican grilling. The Atlantic has more on the hearing for the president’s labor-secretary nominee. Plus, Israel said the body of Shiri Bibas was not included in an exchange on Thursday, Gov. Kathy Hochul will not remove Eric Adams as mayor of New York, former Spanish soccer head Luis Rubiales was convicted of sexual assault, and an asteroid thought to have a chance of hitting Earth likely will not. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
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  • Good morning.

  • It's Friday, February 21st.

  • I'm Shemit Sebastu.

  • This is Apple News Today.

  • On today's show, testing the boundaries of executive power,

  • why Trump's labor secretary nominee might not win full Republican support.

  • And a change in the asteroid forecast means we're safe for now.

  • But first, as the Trump administration continues to deport undocumented immigrants,

  • some are being flown to places they never called home and getting detained upon arrival.

  • One flight that landed in Costa Rica on Thursday carried about 135 people.

  • Almost half were children, and there were at least two pregnant women.

  • They're mostly from countries like China, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

  • NBC reports that some of those countries,

  • like China and Afghanistan, will not easily agree to repatriate people.

  • So US Officials say Costa Rica is a bridge arrangement

  • until international authorities can figure out

  • how to get people back to their home countries.

  • None of these migrants have criminal records,

  • but they are undocumented, according to Costa Rican authorities.

  • Meanwhile, the BBC reports that around 300 deported people, predominantly from Asian countries,