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Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped  —  The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime …
Brandon Drenon / BBC:
US deports hundreds of Venezuelans despite court order  —  A plane carrying more than 200 Venezuelans deported by the US has landed in El Salvador, hours after a US judge ordered the Trump administration not to do so.  —  El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, wrote on social media …
Washington Post:
Trump sends more than 200 alleged gang members to prison in El Salvador  —  The administration won't identify those moved — or say whether the Alien Enemies Act, which briefly sped up some deportations, played any role.  —  Over a weekend when President Donald Trump secretly invoked …
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump administration ignores judge's order to turn deportation planes around: Sources
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
White House Denies Violating Judge's Order in Deporting Venezuelans
NBC News:
Trump administration touts deportations under Alien Enemies Act after a judge temporarily blocked its use
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Cornell Graduate Student Fearing Deportation Files Pre-emptive Lawsuit
Discussion: The Status Kuo
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Doctor and Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge's Order  —  Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.  —  A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University's medical school …
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Judge demands Trump admin. explain why doctor was deported despite order  —  A federal judge on Sunday ordered the Trump administration to respond to allegations that U.S. immigration enforcement “willfully disobeyed” an order halting the deportation of a Rhode Island doctor.
Discussion: DNyuz
NBC News:
Democratic Party hits new polling low, while its voters want to fight Trump harder  —  Unlike in Trump's first term, Democratic voters say 2-to-1 they want party leaders to fight rather than compromise, even at the risk of not getting things done, per the NBC News poll.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times:
Chuck Schumer on Democrats, Antisemitism and His Shutdown Retreat  —  Philip Montgomery for The New York Times  —  It has been quite a week for Chuck Schumer.  When I spoke to the Senate minority leader on Monday, we talked about a lot of things: the direction of his party …
Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
CNN Poll: Democratic Party's favorability drops to a record low
Arthur Allen / KFF Health News:
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants  —  National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.
Discussion: Futurism
Washington Post:
Trump tapped Kari Lake to run VOA.  Then he dismantled it.  —  Lake had big plans to transform the outlet into a powerful “weapon” to fight an “information war.”  Instead, the president has essentially shut it down.  —  Just now  —  During his first term, Donald Trump accused Voice …
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BBC:
Trump moves to close down Voice of America
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Nervous about Trump, international tourists scrap their U.S. travel plans  —  The Trump administration's hard stance on tariffs and other international policies has some travelers rethinking where they vacation.  —  International travelers concerned about President Donald Trump's trade policies …
Discussion: The Independent
Gloria Pazmino / CNN:
Another Columbia student targeted by ICE says she wasn't involved in protests on the night of her arrest  —  Days after federal immigration agents showed up to Ranjani Srinivasan's apartment - prompting her to leave the country out of fear she would be taken into custody …
Discussion: New York Times
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David French / New York Times:
Don't Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Columbia
Discussion: Politico and The Guardian
Lauren Villagran / USA Today:
He voted for Trump.  Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.  —  Bradley Bartell and Camila Muñoz had a familiar small-town love story, before they collided with immigration politics.  —  They met through mutual friends, had a first date at the local steakhouse …
Discussion: Raw Story and Saywhat Politics
John Hendel / Politico:
Top broadband official exits Commerce Department with sharp Musk warning  —  “Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Evan Feinman warned.
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Garry Trudeau / GoComics:
Featured Comment  —  Bill Clinton enacted his Reinventing Government package of streamlining restructuring (REIGO) in 1993, when he still held legislative majorities.  It was passed by a margin of ONE VOTE.  Al Gore was the one who actually drafted the plan in writing …
Maya Yang / The Guardian:
Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website  —  Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address  —  The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war …
Joseph P. Fried / New York Times:
Nita M. Lowey, Tenacious New York Representative, Dies at 87  —  A Democrat, she represented Westchester County for three decades and became the first woman to lead the powerful House Appropriations Committee.  —  Nita M. Lowey, who represented a congressional district based in Westchester County …
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Noel Rubinton / Washington Post:
Nita Lowey, first woman to chair House appropriations panel, dies at 87
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Trade War Retaliation Will Hit Trump Voters Hardest  —  The counties where tariffs could hit jobs, by presidential vote winner  —  Source: New York Times analysis of data from Lightcast and the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.  Note: Vote results are for the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
Steve Vladeck / One First:
132. Five Questions About Trump's Alien Enemy Act Proclamation  —  [An edited version of this post also appears at Just Security.]  —  Welcome back to “One First,” an (increasingly frequent) newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to all of us.
Discussion: Semafor and Simple Justice
Associated Press:
Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funding cuts  —  As an infant, Connor Phillips was born three months premature with cerebral palsy.  The science that saved his life was the inspiration that led to his role studying brain processes as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health.
 
 
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Reuters:
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Katie Hawkinson / The Independent:
Milwaukee mother deported to Laos, a country she has never been to, where she doesn't know anyone and doesn't speak the language
Discussion: Twitchy and AsAmNews
David Noll / Democracy Docket:
If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders
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NBC News:
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Frances Vinall / Washington Post:
Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘Not getting the donations’: DC insider notes Kennedy Center decline after Trump takeover
Discussion: The Guardian
Jeanne Whalen / Wall Street Journal:
Eggs Are So Expensive People Are Smuggling Them in From Mexico
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
A Trump county worries Medicaid cuts could throw them back into opioid spiral