By Harmeet Kaur, CNN

(CNN) — Hours after a federal judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia released last week, an immigration judge — who is a Department of Justice employee — entered a document into the record correcting what they called a “scrivener’s error.”

What the immigration judge was describing as an error was the absence of any deportation order for Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who entered the US illegally around 2011 and whose detention and now-reversed rendition to Venezuela made him a public barometer for how far the Trump administration can push its aggressive anti-migrant agenda. Despite years of immigration proceedings dating back to 2019 and months of back-and-forth from Trump officials about which country he should be deported to, US District Judge Paula Xinis recently found that no final deportation order seemed to have been issued for Abrego Garcia in the first place.

The absence of this essential document, the immigration judge wrote in the December 11 filing, was a mere oversight. The official who was adjudicating Abrego Garcia’s case in 2019 had, the filing claimed, “erroneously omitted” the deportation order, so this new immigration judge — ostensibly having noticed this six years later — was now amending the record to retroactively add language ordering Abrego Garcia removed to El Salvador.

Specifically, the immigration judge invoked the narrow legal doctrine of the scrivener’s error. A scrivener — from the Latin word scriba, meaning scribe, via Norman French — is someone who transcribes official documents, like the titular character of Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener.”

While Bartleby’s occupation is all but obsolete today, the term endures to refer to mistakes in legal documents “of a very small kind that are easily reformed, involving the misprinting of a word or that sort of thing,” said Bryan Garner, a lexicographer and co-author of “Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts” with former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

A scrivener’s error is typically a typo, like a lawyer or legislator writing “third partly” instead of “third party” or using the word “insure” in place of “ensure.” When this kind of minor mistake occurs, when it’s clear from context that the text differs from what the writer meant, judges can correct it, explained Ryan Doerfler, a professor of law at Harvard University who published a law article about the scrivener’s error.

But in Doerfler’s estimation, the absence of a deportation order in Abrego Garcia’s case is no scrivener’s error. Evan Bernick, an associate professor of law at Northern Illinois University, agreed: “You’re not fixing a typo. You’re literally creating a new order, out of nothing, that affects somebody’s rights.”

Garner declined to comment on the specifics of Abrego Garcia’s case, though he suggested the claim wouldn’t hold up in court. “For an appellate court to declare as a matter of law that something is a scrivener’s error that is anything beyond a mere, small inadvertence would be extraordinary,” he said.

For now, Judge Xinis has blocked the Trump administration’s attempts to re-detain Abrego Garcia. Though she didn’t weigh in on the newly created deportation order, she repeatedly set it off in quotes, referring to it as a “new ‘order’” or “this newest ‘order.’”

In “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Melville writes, “It is, of course, an indisp

Por Cesar Lopez, CNN en Español

La FIFA dio a conocer un monto récord de premios para la Copa Mundial de la FIFA 2026, a llevarse a cabo en Canadá, Estados Unidos y México, en medio de varios anuncios que promueven iniciativas para el desarrollo del fútbol juvenil y la creación de un fondo de recuperación posconflicto.

El Consejo de la FIFA aprobó una contribución financiera sin precedentes de US$ 727 millones para las selecciones participantes del Mundial 2026, un 50 % más que en la edición anterior, Qatar 2022, según publicó en un comunicado el máximo organismo del fútbol.

De este monto, afirmó que US$ 655 millones se repartirán como premio entre las 48 selecciones participantes, siendo el campeón el mayor beneficiario.

Cada selección se asegurará US$ 10,5 millones, US$ 9 por acceder a la fase de grupos y otros US$ 1,5 para gastos varios de preparación.

El Consejo de la FIFA también confirmó la distribución de plazas para los torneos de los Juegos Olímpicos de fútbol de Los Ángeles 2028 y anunció que la primera Copa Mundial de Clubes Femenina se celebrará del 5 al 30 de enero de 2028.

Para la próxima justa olímpica, como se anunció en abril de 2025, el fútbol masculino tendrá una reducción de 16 a 12 selecciones en la rama masculina y en la rama femenina pasará de 12 a 16.

La FIFA confirmó las plazas para estas justas según las confederaciones:

-Fútbol Masculino: AFC (2), CAF (2), Concacaf (1), CONMEBOL (2), OFC (1), UEFA (3), Estados Unidos (por ser anfitrión).

-Fútbol Femenino: AFC (2,5), CAF (2), Concacaf (3), CONMEBOL (2,5), OFC (1), UEFA (4), Estados Unidos (por ser anfitrión).

También tras la reunión del Consejo se anunciaron nuevos torneos para impulsar el talento juvenil en 2026. El próximo año se lanzará un nuevo formato de torneos Sub-15 en estilo festival, abiertos a las 211 asociaciones miembro.

La primera edición será para equipos masculinos y en 2027 será para equipos femeninos. A partir de 2028, ambos géneros competirán anualmente en torneos separados, con partidos más cortos, campos reducidos y equipos de 7 a 9 jugadores.

Por otro lado, se creó un fondo de recuperación posconflicto para apoyar a comunidades que buscan su reconstrucción a través del fútbol.

El fondo estará abierto a donaciones de terceros y, según la FIFA, bajo una estricta supervisión.

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By Evan Perez, CNN

(CNN) — On Sunday morning, as investigators rushed to prepare a search warrant for a hotel room in Coventry, Rhode Island, FBI Director Kash Patel broke the news on social media celebrating that a person of interest had been detained in the Brown University mass shooting.

Around the same time, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley announced the man’s detention from a podium, telling residents they can “breathe a little easier.”

It turned out to be the wrong man.

Patel’s announcement, made in a post on X, highlighted the role of the FBI in using cellphone tower data to find the alleged person of interest. By that time, however, some investigators already knew that the person of interest’s cellphone was never identified at the scene of the shooting, casting doubt on the man’s involvement, three people familiar with the investigation told CNN.

Within hours, those doubts grew as investigators determined that tests on shell casings found at the scene of the shooting didn’t match the DNA of the person of interest, two of the sources said. Two handguns found in the hotel room of the person of interest also didn’t match ballistics of the casings, and a residue test on the man’s hands came back negative, the sources said.

The man detained was released later Sunday.

“It’s fair to say that there is no basis to consider him a person of interest,” Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said Sunday of the man who was detained. “So that’s why he’s being released.”

To be sure, the Brown University shooting is a local and state-led investigation and the FBI’s role is to assist. After tensions over the weekend, officials regrouped Monday and Patel dispatched more resources to Providence to support the investigation.

The FBI is now offering a $50,000 reward for tips leading to the identification and conviction of the shooter.

Patel’s Sunday night post on X, saying, “We activated the Cellular Analysis Survey Team, to provide critical geolocation capabilities,” projected precise investigative work and confidence that investigators were homing in on the person responsible.

Such cellphone tower data, which shows precise locations and movement of phones connecting to towers nearby, has been key to finding suspects in crimes, including the man charged in the probe of the Washington, DC, pipe bombs placed near the RNC and DNC headquarters in 2021.

The FBI director’s social media post angered local and state officials in Rhode Island who viewed it as premature and damaging to the probe.

A person familiar with the FBI director’s social media post said that Patel was referring to the use of the CAST data to pinpoint the person’s location at the hotel.

The FBI declined to comment.

The tweet and its backlash echoed an earlier episode in which Patel prematurely announced an arrest in the September assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Prior to becoming FBI director, Patel cultivated a large MAGA following with frequent podcast appearances and social media posts attacking the FBI with “deep state” conspiracies. Now, he continues to be quick to post on social media, even amid ongoing investigations.

Asked at a Senate hearing about his erroneous social media post in the Kirk investigation, Patel acknowledged

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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN

(CNN) — The US government has collected $1 billion in de minimis tariff revenue since rolling back the exemption on low-value packages this spring, according to new data that Customs and Border Protection shared exclusively with CNN.

The exemption applied to goods worth less than $800 and contributed to the proliferation of American shoppers on Chinese e-commerce sites like Temu, Shein and Alibaba. But CBP data suggests that with those duties now in place, Americans have trimmed their purchases.

President Donald Trump initially closed the loophole for goods from China and Hong Kong in May and later applied it to all countries’ exports below $800. Trump argued that it would not only help the government raise tariff revenue but that it would also stop drugs and other illicit goods from entering the country, given the packages would be subject to more rigorous inspections by CBP.

Since the loophole was closed on goods from China and Hong Kong, “seizures of unsafe and non-compliant low-value goods have increased by 82%. These included counterfeits, narcotics, faulty electronics, and goods containing hazardous chemicals,” CBP said in a statement shared with CNN.

Before the de minimis loophole was closed, CBP said an average of 4 million packages a day came through customs. But in late August, before the exemption went into effect for all countries’ goods and was just applicable to China and Hong Kong, CBP said an average of 1 million packages a day entered the country.

The tariff rates range from 10% to 50%, depending on their country of origin. (In certain cases, there is flat fee of $80 to $200 instead, but that expires in February.)

SCOTUS decision hanging over

While the US government has certainly raised more revenue by closing the loophole, the change has created headaches for large and small businesses as well as individual American consumers, who often aren’t aware that they’ll be responsible for paying these duties in instances where the shipper doesn’t include them in the price of the goods.

The shift has likely been felt most acutely by low-income households, who have increasingly been struggling to afford necessities. About 48% of de minimis packages were shipped to America’s poorest zip codes, while 22% were delivered to the richest ones, according to research in February from UCLA and Yale economists.

However, in closing the loophole, Trump cited the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a law he’s used to impose the bulk of new tariffs during his second term.

His ability to impose tariffs in that way could soon be reined in, with the Supreme Court set to issue a verdict by early next year on whether he holds such authority. If the court rules against him, it could result in importers, including individual American consumers who’ve paid duties on low-value packages, receiving refunds.

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