Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Plans to Press White House Over Deportation Flights  —  Where Things Stand  — Deportation flights: A federal judge is set to press Trump administration lawyers at a 5 p.m. hearing about whether the White House had violated a court order in deporting migrants with little to no due process.

EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration  —  An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency …

Deported Brown University professor had ‘sympathetic photos’ of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, DOJ says  —  The government's explanation for Rasha Alawieh's deportation came before a judge postponed a hearing on whether it defied a judge's order that she not be deported without advance notice to the court.

Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order  —  Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled “DEI.”  —  Why it matters: From 1942 to 1945 …

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.

Give back the Statue of Liberty, French MEP tells US  —  French Socialist MEP says Washington's embrace of dictators negates the values that led France to bestow the iconic statue some 140 years ago.  —  She's been covered by a glacier, smashed up by various giant monsters …

Trump Says Biden's Pardons are ‘Void’ and ‘Vacant’ Because of Autopen  —  The use of the autopen, a device that reproduces signatures and is ubiquitous in government and business, is ordinarily uncontroversial.  There is no power to undo a pardon in the Constitution or case law.

Trump Insists He Was Being “Sarcastic” About Major Campaign Promise  —  One month before the election, 70 percent of Americans felt that foreign affairs comprised either a “very important” or “extremely important” component of their vote.  But as it turns out, Donald Trump's repeat campaign promises …

Schumer postpones book tour over security concerns  —  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was expected to face protests at some of the events.  —  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is postponing scheduled book tour events this week for “security reasons,” as he faces intense backlash …

GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia.  Here is How We Would Respond.  —  Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university.  —  Everything that has been posted on Drezner's World over the past …

Brown advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel  —  The announcement comes after the deportation of Assistant Professor of Medicine Rasha Alawieh.  —  One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including visa holders and permanent residents …

Trump administration plans 25 percent staff cut at IRS taxpayer help office  —  The Taxpayer Advocate Service, which operates as an internal watchdog, would see deeper workforce reductions than the agency overall.  —  Just now  —  The Trump administration is set to cut more than 20 percent …

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

Introducing a New Project to Track Polls  —  The Times will aggregate public opinion surveys and produce new polling averages, starting with polls that ask about President Trump's job performance.  And we will make the data available to everyone.  —  The New York Times has begun a new effort …

Destroying America's Brand  —  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.  Not long ago the Liberals seemed headed for an electoral wipeout, but they've seen an amazing surge in the polls:

Anti-Abortion Lawyer Pushed Out of F.D.A. After Republican Senator's Pressure Campaign  —  Hilary Perkins, a career lawyer and a conservative, was targeted by Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri for defending the Biden administration's position on the abortion pill.

Commerce Department Director Leaves Job With a Scathing Musk Warning  —  A top director at the Commerce Department in charge of expanding internet access to rural areas claimed in a scathing email to colleagues that rural broadband funding may soon be funneled to Elon Musk's Starlink, despite its comparatively lower quality service.

Federal Land Can Be Home Sweet Home  —  Our departments will work together to solve the housing crisis.  —  Click For Sound  —  America needs more affordable housing, and the federal government can make it happen by making federal land available to build affordable housing stock.