内容摘要：to Mexico, whom President Donald Trump’s administration was working to bring back after a court order, landed in the United States on Wednesday, his attorneys confirmed.

to Mexico, whom President Donald Trump’s administration was working to bring back after a court order, landed in the United States on Wednesday, his attorneys confirmed.

Retired National Weather Service forecaster David Imy gestures to an approaching storm during a Project ICECHIP operation Tuesday, June 3, 2025, near Tipton, Okla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Retired National Weather Service forecaster David Imy gestures to an approaching storm during a Project ICECHIP operation Tuesday, June 3, 2025, near Tipton, Okla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Scientists in two hail-dimpled vehicles with special mesh protecting the windshields are driving straight into the heart of the storms, an area known as the “shaft” where the hail pelting is the most intense. It’s a first-of-its-kind icy twist on tornado chasing.“It’s an interesting experience. It sounds like somebody on the outside of your vehicle is hitting you with a hammer,” said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini, one of the lead researchers.A team of journalists from The Associated Press joined them this week in a several-day trek across the Great Plains, starting Tuesday morning in northern Texas with a weather briefing before joining a caravan of scientists and students looking for ice.

Members of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Integrated Remote and In-Situ Sensing flight team stage in a Walmart parking lot before a Project ICECHIP operation Tuesday, June 3, 2025, in Atlus, Okla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Members of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Integrated Remote and In-Situ Sensing flight team stage in a Walmart parking lot before a Project ICECHIP operation Tuesday, June 3, 2025, in Atlus, Okla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The caravan features more than a dozen radar trucks and weather balloon launching vehicles. At each site, the scientists load and unload drones, lasers and cameras and other specialized equipment. There are foam pads to measure hail impact and experimental roofing material. There are even special person-sized funnels to collect pristine hail before it hits the ground and becomes tainted with dirt.

Already in treks across Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, the team has found hail measuring more than 5 inches (13 centimeters) in diameter — bigger than a softball, but not quite a soccer ball. The team’s equipment and vehicles already sport dings, dimples and dents that scientists show off like battle scars.Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said there was no damage.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday that its troops have taken control of another village in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region, on the border with Russia.Putin announced on May 22 that Russian troops aim to create a buffer zone that might help prevent Ukrainian cross-border attacks. Since then, Russia claims it has taken control of nine Sumy villages.

Arhirova reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. AP writers Illia Novikov in Kyiv, Chris Megerian and Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington, Emma Burrows in London, Nicole Winfield in Rome, Katie Marie Davies in Manchester, England, contributed reporting.Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at