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12:35 AM ET, March 17, 2025

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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
The Week Ahead  —  It's going to be an eventful week.  That's already clear.
Discussion: Forbes and ACLU
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:   Trump administration ignores judge's order to turn deportation planes around: Sources
Annie Correal / New York Times:
Venezuelan Families Fear for Relatives as Trump Celebrates Deportations
Discussion: DNyuz
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
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.
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
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BBC:
Trump moves to close down Voice of America
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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Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
CNN Poll: Democratic Party's favorability drops to a record low
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
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
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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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Iran rejects Trump's ‘bullying’ on nuclear talks, as threats ratchet up
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: The Verge and Rolling Stone
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
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 …
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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