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Some States Opt Out of Trump’s ‘Great American State Fair’

At least five have declined to participate, the latest sign that the national 250th birthday celebration has become a fragmented and partisan affair as the president seeks his imprint.

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Construction on the National Mall in preparation for the Great American State Fair.
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Video shows angler freeing great white shark after surprise catch at Nantucket

Footage shows Elliot Sudal hauling the shark from the surf before releasing it within seconds, sparking online reaction

An angler who reeled in a rare great white shark at a Nantucket beach said he posted extraordinary video of the encounter to social media as an example of how to safely catch and release one of the ocean’s greatest predators.

Elliot Sudal said he was “testing the waters” off the Massachusetts beach he regularly uses when he inadvertently snagged the shark on Sunday.

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© Photograph: Bryner Oliveira via Storyful

© Photograph: Bryner Oliveira via Storyful

© Photograph: Bryner Oliveira via Storyful

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Judge Throws Out Trump Administration’s Policy Imposing $100,000 Fees for H-1B Visas

The ruling voided “in its entirety” a policy from September requiring companies to pay $100,000 fees for H-1B visa petitions.

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Judge Leo T. Sorokin wrote that the Trump administration’s policy appeared to step on Congress’s “exclusive power” to levy taxes.
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Bruna Ferreira, the former sister-in-law of the White House press secretary detained by ICE: ‘I never wanted to be an international news story’

Bruna Ferreira in Boston on June 3.

More than six months have passed, and Bruna Ferreira still does not understand why she was arrested. Nor does she understand why the Donald Trump administration labeled her a “criminal illegal alien” after her detention. What she does know for certain is that she has lived through a true “nightmare” ever since. She thanks God again and again that she only spent 26 days in a detention center before being released rather than deported, as thousands of migrants have been under the U.S. president’s mass deportation campaign. But her release did not bring an end to her ordeal. Getting her life back on track has proved difficult due to the massive media coverage her case received. After all, she is the mother of the White House press secretary’s nephew.

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Bruna Ferreira, in Boston last Wednesday.Attorney Todd Pomerleau and Bruna Ferreira in Boston.
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