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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. The Trump administration has resumed deportations to El Salvador. As NPR's Adrian Florido reports, the latest group, like the first, is accused of gang activity.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the government sent 17 violent criminals to El Salvador. He claimed they're members of the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs. El Salvador's president posted videos of the men being unloaded from a plane and locked up in a prison. Earlier this month, President Trump sent more than 130 alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, arguing that an 18th-century wartime law gave him authority to summarily deport them without hearings. Some of their families have denied they're in gangs. A federal judge temporarily blocked more deportations under that law. It's not clear if this new group of men were expelled in violation of the judge's ruling or because they had valid deportation orders. Adrian Florido, NPR News.

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President Trump says the search for missing American journalist, Austin Tice, continues. As NPR's Franco Ordoñez reports, Tice disappeared in Syria nearly 13 years ago.

Franco Ordoñez1:25

Austin Tice is an award-winning freelance journalist and Marine veteran.