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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge has denied the Trump administration's request to delay a Friday deadline torestore an exhibiton the history of slavery at Independence Mall in Philadelphia.

Slavery Exhibit Removed

The ruling Friday morning came as restoration work begun Thursdayresumedat the site of the former President's House. Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe had set a 5 p.m. Friday deadline for its completion, and she held to that timeline, even as the administration appeals her decision.

The Interior Department has said in court papers that it planned to replace the exhibit with its own narrative on slavery, as the administration works to remove information that it deems"disparaging" to Americansfrom federal properties. Rufe said it must work with the city on new material under a longstanding cooperative agreement.

"As this court established, "(t)he government can convey a different message without restraint elsewhere if it so pleases, but it cannot do so to the President's House until it follows the law and consults with the city," Rufe, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, said in Friday's opinion.

In its own filing Friday to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Justice Department called her ruling "extraordinary" and "an improper intrusion on the workings of a co-equal branch of government."

The appeals court asked the city to respond to the request for an emergency stay of Rufe's order.

One of the panels being rehung Friday morning — titled "History Lost & Found" — details the surprising discovery of artifacts from the building during an archaeological dig in the early 2000s, as work was being done on a new pavilion for the Liberty Bell.

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National Park Service employees worked with care on the exhibits, including those on the nine people enslaved by George and Martha Washington in the 1790s, when Philadelphia served as the nation's capital. The Park Service describes theoutdoor exhibitas one "that examines the paradox between slavery and freedom in the founding of the nation."

The Trump administration abruptly removed the panels in January, leading the city and other advocates to file suit. They had been on display since 2010, the result of years of research and collaboration between the city, the Park Service, historians and other private parties.

Rufe, in denying the federal government's request for a delay, said that side was unlikely to succeed at trial. And she said the public –- and the city's reputation -- was being harmed with each passing day.

The city, she said, "is responsible for the public trust in the city's telling of its own history, its own integrity in telling that history, and preventing erasure of that history, particularly in advance of the semiquincentennial."

Millions of people are expected to visit Philadelphia, the nation's birthplace, this year for the 250th anniversary of the country's founding in 1776.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia, which is representing the administration in court, declined to comment on the restoration work Friday.

Kimberly Gegner, a teacher from Philadelphia, visited the site Friday with some of her 6th- to 9th-grade students. As a Black American, she said, it had pained her to see the history removed. But she was grateful to see it going back up.

"This whole case and what happened here — the taking it down and how Mayor Parker and other Pennsylvanians had to go to court to have it restored — is an excellent case of how the Constitution was applied to win this case for Philadelphia," she said.

Reuters senior photographer Phil Noble explains how he got the image of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaving the police station

Most days, the country's top newspapers have a wide range of photos gracing their front pages. But on Friday, every image topping the British front pages was identical:

A snap ofAndrew Mountbatten-Windsor, slouched in the back of a car, looking shell-shocked on his 66th birthday as he left the police station.

On Thursday, Mountbatten-Windsor became the first member of the UK royal family to bearrestedin modern history, spending more than 10 hours in police custody at a station in the small town of Aylsham, England, about an hour away from his new home on the royal Sandringham Estate.

"The photo gods were on my side yesterday," said Phil Noble, a senior photographer at Reuters news agency who captured the incredible image.

Noble, based in northern England, drove roughly five hours south to Norfolk on Thursday morning – racing to get there after the news of the arrest broke.

Through guesswork and some well-placed sources, his two-person team zeroed in what they thoughtmightbe the correct police station,maybe.There are roughly 20 Thames Valley Police stations where the former prince could have been taken, so they had to wait to see.

"This was probably the fourth or fifth police station that Reuters had visited that night," Noble said. "When I arrived, it didn't look anything out of the ordinary. There was no cars. There was no increased activity."

"To be honest, just before he arrived, I'd left to go back to the hotel… and my colleague Marissa messaged me and said, 'Look, two cars have just arrived I think you should come back,'" Nobel said candidly in a video explaining how he got the shot.

Then the race really began. The Reuters photographer said he "spun the car around, got back, and within a minute of arriving back, the shutters on the garage at the police station came up and two cars left. And one of them, he (Mountbatten-Windsor) was in."

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Stakeout photography has a lot of variables, Noble explained. Part of the job is preparation, skill and experience. It also requires a willingness to stand on the side of a British country road in the dark for hours at a time, without knowing if it will lead to anything noteworthy.

"Probably half an hour before I took the photo, I'd done some test shots of other cars leaving the police station, so I had a rough idea of… the camera settings maybe," explained Noble, who has been working at Reuters for more than 20 years. Before that, he worked in photography at the UK's Press Association and the Manchester Evening News.

"But it's still, you know, more than luck than judgment when the car comes out. You've got to try and guess where he's sitting, which side of the car is he? Is he in the front? Is he in the back? Will the flash recycle in time?"

He took six frames in all, according to Reuters. Two were blank, one was out of focus and two showed police officers. But one captured the extraordinary moment.

"For every car shot that you do, the hit rate is really, really low," he added. "So last night was, it was one of those, kind of, pinch-me moments where you look at the back of the camera, you're tired, it's been a long day… you can't believe that you've got him."

Mountbatten-Windsor wasreleased "under investigation"late Thursday evening. Police have not said what led them to arrest the former prince on suspicion of misconduct in public office, but he previously spent a decade as UK trade envoy starting in 2001. He stepped down in 2011 after coming under fire over his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The former prince has not publicly responded to the latest allegations to emerge after the US Department of Justice released millions of documents related to Epstein. Mountbatten-Windsor has repeatedly denied all allegations of wrongdoing and said he never witnessed or suspected any of the behavior that Epstein was accused of.

Asked about the photo, Noble said it's no work of art, but it's definitely among the most newsworthy he has ever snapped.

"Best photo-photo? It's probably not. You know, it's a man shot at night through the back of a windscreen," Noble said, laughing a bit. "Is that the best photo I've ever taken? No. Is it up there with one of the most important? A hundred percent."

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The U.S. is close to reaching at least 1,000 measles cases for the third time in eight years.

At least 72 new measles cases have been confirmed in the last week, according to updated data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

So far this year, there have been total of 982 cases in 26 states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

New map shows how to spot the measles risk level in your ZIP code

Just six measles cases were reported among international travelers so far this year, according to CDC data.

About 94% of cases are among people who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown, the CDC said.

Meanwhile, 3% of cases are among those who have received just one dose of the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine and 4% of cases are among those who received the recommended two doses, according to the CDC.

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The current measles situation in the U.S. is partly being driven by a large outbreak in South Carolina that began last year, with 962 cases recorded as of Friday, according tostate health officials.

Last year, the U.S. recorded 2,281 measles cases, which is the highest number of national cases in 33 years, according to the CDC.

It also marked the first U.S. deaths recorded from measles in a decade,two among school-aged unvaccinated childrenin Texas anda third among an unvaccinated adultin New Mexico.

The CDC currentlyrecommendspeople receive two doses of the MMR vaccine, the first at ages 12 to 15 months and the second between 4 and 6 years old. One dose is 93% effective, and two doses are 97% effective against measles, the CDC said.

However, federal data shows vaccination rates have been lagging in recent years. During the 2024-2025 school year,92.5% of kindergartners received the MMR vaccine, according to data. This is lower than the 92.7% seen in the previous school year and the 95.2% seen in the 2019-2020 school year, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Last month marked one year since a measles outbreak began in West Texas, with infections soon spreading to neighboring counties and other states.

Public health expertspreviously told ABC Newsthat if cases in other states are found to be linked to the cases in Texas, it would mean the virus has been spreading for a year, which could lead to a loss of elimination status.

Billions of dollars earmarked for reconstruction and the promise of an international stabilization force for the destroyedGaza Strip:Those were just two of the promises to emerge from theinaugural summitof PresidentDonald Trump's Board of Peace.

"We will help Gaza," Trump said at the meeting in Washington on Thursday, attended by representatives of more than 40 countries, including several heads of state.

"We will straighten it out. We will make it successful. We will make it peaceful. And we will do things like that in other spots," he said.

Billions in reconstruction

While Trump initially pitched his board as an entity to oversee peace efforts in Gaza, he has sincedramatically expanded its remitas a United Nations-style organization capable of addressing major conflicts around the world.

Some 27 countries have committed to joining, with Hungarian Prime MinisterViktor Orbán and Argentine President Javier Mileiamong the world leaders attending. So far,key U.S. allies, including the Britain, France, Norway and Sweden, have declined, some citing concerns the body risks undermining the United Nations' role in peacekeeping efforts around the world.

Despite the board's broadened scope, Gaza's future remained in focus at Thursday's summit, with Trump announcing that members had committed at least $7 billion for reconstruction of the shattered enclave, with funding promised from countries including Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan and Kuwait.

Trump separately announced that the U.S. was also committed to dedicating $10 billion to the Board of Peace initiative, though it was not clear where exactly that funding would be allotted.

The billions of dollars earmarked for reconstruction represent a "small fraction" of the roughly $70 billion that ajoint estimate from the U.N., the European Union and the World Bank said late last year would be required to rebuild Gaza, according to Julie Norman of Chatham House, a London-based foreign policy think tank.

More than 72,000 people, including thousands of children, have been killed in the enclave, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, since Israel launched its military offensive. The war followed the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, in which 1,200 people were killed and around 250 taken hostage.

More than 80% of buildings, including schools, hospitals and homes, are estimated to have been destroyed in the territory, the United Nations Development Programme said last year.

The UNDP's Special Representative for the Palestinians Jaco Cillerssaid that at least $20 billion would be neededover an initial three-year period and the rest would be required over a longer time frame.

"I don't think we should be too optimistic about their ability to change things on the ground very soon," Norman, an associate fellow at Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Program, said ahead of Thursday's summit.

A central focus of reconstruction efforts when they do get underway will be the rebuilding of Rafah. The city in the southern Gaza Strip bordering Egypt has long been a lifeline for Palestinians and a key portal to the outside world, with a video played at Thursday's event outlining a three-year goal to rebuild it.

The plan includes building 100,000 homes for 500,000 residents, plus $5 billion in infrastructure funding, he said. Eventually that number would grow to 400,000 homes with more than $30 billion in spending on infrastructure.

Billionaire Yakir Gabay described plans to develop Gaza's coastline into "a new Mediterranean Riviera with 200 hotels and potential islands," echoing Trump's past calls to turn the enclave into the "Riviera of the Middle East." Gabay, the son of senior Israeli officials, is set to be on the Gaza Executive Board and is leading a reconstruction bid.

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Gabay said the plan would be "subject to a full disarmament of Hamas," a key stipulation and sticking point in ceasefire negotiations as Hamas has not agreed to hand over its weapons. It is not clear when disarmament might happen if at all — and equally unclear whether the stabilization force would be deployed prior to demilitarization.

Israel made clear it wanted full disarmament, including for Hamas to hand over "all of" its weapons, and the dismantlement of the underground tunnel network and weapons production facilities.

Stabilization force

Details of plans for a U.N.-authorized international stabilization force in Gaza were also laid out Thursday, with countries including Indonesia, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo and Albania committing to dedicating several thousand troops to the effort.

Indonesia reaffirmed its commitment to dedicating as many as 8,000 troops or more, with U.S. Army Gen. Jasper Jeffers, tasked with leading the force, saying the Southeast Asian nation had been offered and accepted the position of deputy commander.

It was not clear how many troops other countries committed to the force in addition to the thousands committed by Indonesia. Morocco, for instance, did not provide a number but said it would deploy high ranking military officers to join the force, in addition to deploying police officers and training officers from Gaza. Meanwhile, Egypt and Jordan also committed to help train police in the enclave, Jeffers said.

Questions and concerns

While Thursday's summit outlined broad next steps forward, some said it did little to address the overall concerns over the board's potential to undermine the U.N. Human rights experts and others have condemned the lack of Palestinian representation on the board.

"The lack of Palestinians and Palestinian input and the ways in which they're approaching it as though this is some kind of business test case just shows you how problematic it is," Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer and former adviser to Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Liberation Organization, said in a phone interview Friday.

A number of countries have said they would not join the initiative due to the lack of Palestinian presence on most of the bodies created alongside the Board of Peace. A technocratic body will be led by Palestinian official Dr. Ali Shaath and is expected to oversee day-to-day administration in the enclave.

Shaath, chief commissioner of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, reminded those gathered that the conditions on the ground were "extremely difficult."

"Large parts of Gaza are severely damaged, destroyed. Actually, humanitarian needs are acute," Shaath said. "Law and order remain fragile. This is not normal operating environment, Mr. President, which is precisely why discipline and privatization matter."

Buttu said that without resolving long-standing Palestinian grievances, such as a lack of an independent state, freedom of movement and the tens of thousands of killed and injured, a true regeneration of Gaza would be impossible.

"This is really an issue about politics and about the lives and futures of people that can't be resolved through a business model," she added.

Andreas Krieg, a Middle East security expert from King's College London, was less skeptical, and said that while the Board of Peace was a flawed project, it was also an "imperfect tool that can still be useful."

The board lacked a "clean design" and carried "real political baggage," he said, noting the reluctance of key U.S. allies to join the initiative, while saying that for those who do, the calculation was largely "transactional."

But, Krieg said, "it may be the only bridge available that has a chance of moving Gaza away from perpetual war."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement now says "use of force" was a factor in the death of an immigrant detainee.

Geraldo Lunas Campos died in January at the Camp East Montana for-profit detention center in El Paso, Texas.

The Department of Homeland Security said he died after attempting suicide, but a Scripps News investigation revealed Lunas Campos was in handcuffs moments before his death.

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A county autopsy said the death was a result of homicide.

Now, a new document quietly posted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Lunas Campos died "after a spontaneous use of force" to prevent him from harming himself.

The statement does not elaborate on who exerted force against Lunas Campos. Scripps News has reached out to officials for more details.

The Camp East Montana detention center is the largest for-profit immigration lockup in the country and relies on the use of private security guards.

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