Top US court hands Trump a win on deportations as SCOTUS challenge looms

A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted the Trump administration's request to pause a lower court order that blocked it from deporting illegal immigrants to so-called "third countries" — granting a near-term reprieve to the administration just hours before the lower court's order was slated to take effect.

Trump administration lawyers had appealed the ruling to the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals last week, arguing that the order from U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy created an...