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10:25 PM ET, March 17, 2025

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New York Times:
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.
Discussion: The Hill, Axios, HotAir, Breitbart and Reason
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The judge who tried to stop the deportation planes is not happy with the Trump administration  —  Judge James Boasberg is demanding answers about the three planes that rushed Venezuelan nationals from the U.S. to El Salvador over the weekend.  —  A federal judge sharply questioned …
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
The evil at your door  —  Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States to El Salvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp.
Discussion: The Dispatch and Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
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.
New York Times:
Timeline of Trump's Deportation Flights, From Alien Enemies Act to Judge's Order
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Trump's border czar: “I don't care what the judges think”
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Trump's Open Defiance Of Federal Courts Is Now At Hand
Discussion: The Mahablog
Washington Post:
Trump escalates fight with federal courts over deportation authority
Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
The Ultimate Trump Story
Emily Peck / Axios:
Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support  —  An internal memo from the Social Security Administration proposes changes to its phone service that could derail the benefits application process for many Americans.  —  Why it matters: The Trump administration has repeatedly …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
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 …
Discussion: New Republic and Kiplinger
Erin Alberty / Axios:
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 …
Discussion: NPR and Townhall
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Washington Post:
Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser  —  Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.  —  Jon Swaine is an investigative reporter on Signal at jonswaine.55.  Alex Horton is a national security reporter on Signal at alexhorton.85.
Discussion: WUSA
NBC4 Washington:
US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building  —  President Trump targeted the organization and a few others in a Feb. 19 executive order aiming to shrink the federal government  —  Employees of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency entered the U.S. Institute …
Discussion: Raw Story and WUSA
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building  —  Employees of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an independent agency.
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
At Kennedy Center, Trump envisions remaking Honors, suggests he could host  —  Trump and his board suggested several artists for the awards, including Sylvester Stallone, Andrea Bocelli, Elvis Presley and Babe Ruth.  —  President Donald Trump visited the Kennedy Center on Monday …
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CBS News:
Kennedy Center actor discusses Trump's takeover
Discussion: Townhall, New York Post and WUSA
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
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 …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump Discussion With Putin to Focus on What Ukraine Will Lose
David Klepper / Associated Press:
Gabbard says Trump and Putin are ‘very good friends’ focused on strengthening ties
Discussion: NDTV and RedState
Associated Press:
Trump revokes Secret Service detail for Joe Biden's children  —  President made change effective ‘immediately’ to security protection for Hunter and Ashley after a reporter's inquiry  —  Donald Trump said on Monday he was ending “immediately” the Secret Service protection details assigned …
Discussion: Washington Times
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Reuters:
Trump revokes secret service protection for Biden's children Hunter and Ashley
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.
Discussion: CBS News and Raw Story
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Joe Stanley-Smith / Politico:
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 …
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Washington Examiner:
French politician demands US return the Statue of Liberty
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lays Groundwork for Investigating People Pardoned by Biden  —  President asserts in social-media post that Biden's pardons were ‘void, vacant, and of no further force of effect’  —  President Trump questioned the validity of pardons granted by President Joe Biden before he left office …
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Trump Says Biden's Pardons are ‘Void’ and ‘Vacant’ Because of Autopen
Texas Attorney General:
Attorney General Ken Paxton Announces Arrest of Houston-Area Abortionist and Crackdown on Clinics Providing Illegal Abortions  —  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, for providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Northwest Houston area.
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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission:
EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas Sends Letters to 20 Law Firms Requesting Information About DEI-Related Employment Practices  —  WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Acting Chair Andrea Lucas sent letters to 20 law firms requesting information about their diversity …
Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
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 …
Yasmeen Hamadeh / The Daily Beast:
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.
Discussion: Ars Technica and DNyuz
 
 
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Associated Press:
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Lisa O'Carroll / The Guardian:
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Ryan King / New York Post:
Columbia janitors claim they were illegally forced to scrub swastikas then were attacked, trapped by anti-Israel mob as civil rights probe launched
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
Schumer postpones book tour over security concerns
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Lindsey Bahr / Associated Press:
The National Association of Theatre Owners changes name to Cinema United, saying it is “complicated having the same name as a multinational military alliance”

David Roeder / Chicago Sun Times:
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Samantha Masunaga / Los Angeles Times:
The California Film Commission chooses a record 51 films to receive incentives in the state's film and TV tax credit program, including 46 indie films
 
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