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7:40 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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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  —  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 …
Jack Blanchard / Politico:
Playbook: The ‘law and order’ presidency  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  This is Jack Blanchard.  —  Feeling thirsty?  Pints of Guinness are just 51 cents each at The Dubliner between 9 and 10 a.m. this morning.  It's a good job Congress is in recess, really.
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
Annie Correal / New York Times:
Venezuelan Families Fear for Relatives as Trump Celebrates Deportations
Discussion: DNyuz
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped
NBC News:
Trump administration touts deportations under Alien Enemies Act after a judge temporarily blocked its use
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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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: UPI and 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.
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
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
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Fortune
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.
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 …
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.
Punchbowl News:
3/17/25 ☀️ AM:  —  Schumer and Jeffries huddle after Democratic implosion  —  The list: The 26 House Dems the NRCC is targeting  —  A sneak peek at the House GOP agenda for the next few weeks  —  Schumer and Jeffries huddle after Democratic implosion … The House and Senate are out this week.
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.
New York Times:
The Budget Trick the G.O.P. Might Use to Make a $4 Trillion Tax Cut Look Free  —  A maneuver so wonky that it might be best explained with sports cars and anime streaming.  —  How much does a tax cut cost?  It depends what you compare it to.  —  Republicans in Congress trying to advance …
Axios:
Trump's historic test of immigrants' speech rights  —  The Trump administration's moves to deport Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil have set up a historic court battle over whether the U.S. government can remove legal residents as national security risks for what they say.
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
 
 
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
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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
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Associated Press:
Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funding cuts
Maya Yang / The Guardian:
Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website
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Garry Trudeau / GoComics:
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Thomas Zimmer / Democracy Americana:
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John Hendel / Politico:
Top broadband official exits Commerce Department with sharp Musk warning
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