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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Exclusive: How the White House defied a judge's order to turn back deportation flights — The Trump administration says it ignored a Saturday court order to turn around two planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members because the flights were over international waters and therefore the ruling didn't apply …
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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 …
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
The Week Ahead — It's going to be an eventful week. That's already clear. Chief among the issues is whether this is the week we reach the tipping point where the administration flagrantly ignores a federal court's order, and we begin to see the ensuing constitutional crisis, which would be full blown at that point, play out.
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump administration ignores judge's order to turn deportation planes around: Sources — Officials said the planes had to land for “national security” reasons. — Salvadoran police officers escort alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua recently deported by the U.S. government …
Annie Correal / New York Times:
Venezuelan Families Fear for Relatives as Trump Celebrates Deportations
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Timeline of US Flight to El Salvador and Judge's Order to Turn Around Planes
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Fox News:
Trump thanks El Salvador for taking in alleged gang members deported from US: ‘We will not forget’
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NBC News:
Trump administration touts deportations under Alien Enemies Act after a judge temporarily blocked its use
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New York Times:
White House Denies Violating Judge's Order in Deporting Venezuelans
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Brandon Drenon / BBC:
US deports hundreds of Venezuelans despite court order
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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.
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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Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
With Deportations, Trump Steps Closer to Showdown With Judicial Branch — “Oopsie ... Too late,” El Salvador's president said, mocking a court order that deportation flights to his country turn back to the United States. Top administration officials thanked him.
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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.
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David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Trump has a plan to remake the economy. But he's not explaining it very well. — President Donald Trump's economic plan is causing brief pain while the nation advances to a new “Golden Age.” But officials have been much less clear about what that destination will look like.
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Patrick Smith / NBC News:
Trump says Biden's pardons for Jan. 6 committee are ‘void’ because he used an autopen
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New York Times:
DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts … Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The National Nuclear Safety Administration field office that oversees the lab lost nine staff members, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.The Albuquerque Journal, via Associated Press
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Paul Krugman:
Destroying America's Brand — Losing the world's trust, and a lot of money too — Last week Mark Carney, having won the Liberal Party's leadership election, became Canada's Prime Minister. And it looks possible that he may hold that position for a while.
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 …
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
DOGE's Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread — Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.
David Enrich / New York Times:
As Voice of America Goes Dark, Some Broadcasts Are Replaced by Music — President Trump's executive order on Friday calling for the dismantling of the federal agency that oversees the broadcaster is part of a wider campaign to weaken the news media. — For more than 80 years …
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Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times:
Social Security Workers Say It Is Being Endangered by DOGE — Current and former employees, both Republican and Democratic, are raising alarms about the damage cost-cutting efforts could do to the agency's ability to serve the public. — When Eleanor H., 66, called the Social Security Administration …
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Jenny Goldsberry / Washington Examiner:
Hegseth pledges strikes at Houthis won't be a ‘one-night thing’ — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth clarified that the recent strikes in Yemen against the Houthis are in defense of U.S. assets and not to advance either side of the Yemeni civil war. — The strikes represent …
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Joshua Keating / Vox:
Has Trump already killed NATO? — Throughout his first term as president, Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to leave NATO, an alliance that in his view allows other countries who don't spend enough on their own defense to get a free ride on US security guarantees.
Phoebe Petrovic / ProPublica:
How a Push to Amend the Constitution Could Help Trump Expand Presidential Power — A draft lawsuit being floated to attorneys general in several states argues Congress must call a convention over the national debt. But the legal theory mixes and matches petitions from states dating back to 1789.
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Reuters:
Trump says he will be speaking with Russia's Putin on Tuesday — U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday and discuss ending the war in Ukraine. — “I'll be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work's been done over the weekend …
New York Times:
Trump Administration Revives Detention of Immigrant Families — Two facilities in South Texas are being readied for undocumented parents and their children. One site began receiving them earlier this month. — For decades, detaining undocumented immigrant families has been a contentious enforcement tactic.
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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
‘Stagflation’ risk puts Federal Reserve in tricky spot as it meets this week — When Federal Reserve officials last met in late January, things looked pretty good: Hiring was solid. The economy had just grown at a solid pace in last year's final quarter. And inflation, while stubborn …
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Tal Axelrod / Axios:
MAGA figures start chatter over Derek Chauvin pardon — Prominent supporters of President Trump — led by podcaster Ben Shapiro — are fueling a major push to pardon Derek Chauvin, the white former Minnesota police officer convicted of killing George Floyd in 2020.
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