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By Hyunjoo Jin and Joyce Lee INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) -South Korean workers who returned home on Friday after being detained for a week by U.S. immigration authorities described their horror over the raid at their workplace in the state of Georgia and their relief at being reunited with their families.

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US President Donald Trump has called for the death penalty for 34-year-old homeless man DeCarlos Brown Jr, a suspect in the murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte on 22 August.

Footage shared with CBS News Los Angeles from Van Nuys showed the confrontation at a strip mall, with two men and a woman detained by masked Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers. Newsweek reached out to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE) for comment via email Wednesday afternoon.

President Donald Trump wants drugmakers to lower their prices in the US — so he’ll push them to raise prices in other countries to offset the hit to their bottom line, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Friday.

U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to India said on Thursday that Washington and New Delhi are "not that far apart" on tariffs at a hearing in which he and Trump's fellow Republicans described warm bilateral ties despite recent tensions.