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3:30 PM ET, April 14, 2025

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Washington Post:
Salvadoran president says he won't return wrongly deported man to U.S.  —  Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said Monday that he did not plan to return to Kilmar Abrego García to the United States.  “How can I return him to the United States?”  Bukele asked Monday during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Trump Administration Is Sticking to Its Gulag Plan in Defiance of the Supreme Court  —  The Trump administration escalated its defiance of federal court orders over the weekend, adamantly refusing to reverse its illegal deportation of a Maryland father, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, to an El Salvador prison.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:   Bukele's Offense Against the American People
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. and El Salvador Won't Return Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported
Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Trump hosts El Salvador's Bukele amid deportation controversy
The Harvard Crimson:
Harvard Will Fight Trump's Demands  —  Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration's demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garber '76 announced in a message to affiliates Monday afternoon.
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Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Harvard rejects Trump administration's demands with federal funding at risk  —  The university's response comes after the government announced a federal review of nearly $9 billion in funding to Harvard and its affiliates.  —  With billions of dollars in federal funding at risk …
Discussion: Axios
Harvard University President:
The Promise of American Higher Education  —  For three-quarters of a century, the federal government has awarded grants and contracts to Harvard and other universities to help pay for work that, along with investments by the universities themselves, has led to groundbreaking innovations across …
Mike Damiano / The Boston Globe:
Harvard says it will not yield to Trump's demands
Discussion: New York Daily News
Vimal Patel / New York Times:
Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration's Demands
Discussion: New York Post
New York Times:   Inside Trump's Pressure Campaign on Universities
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event  —  Despite a court order, a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press were barred from an Oval Office news conference on Monday with President Donald Trump and his counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.
Discussion: MeidasTouch News, Mediaite and Eschaton
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
AP says journalists blocked from Oval Office after judge's order  —  The Associated Press on Monday said its journalists were barred from covering an Oval Office event featuring President Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in defiance of a court injunction.
Akela Lacy / The Intercept:
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE  —  Mohsen K. Mahdawi arrived at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vermont, on Monday.  A Palestinian student at Columbia University, he hoped that, after 10 years in the U.S. …
Discussion: The Guardian, The City and Al Jazeera
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CNN:
Tufts University student and government argue in court whether she can challenge ICE arrest
Discussion: The Independent
Associated Press:
Suspect in arson at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence being treated at hospital, police say  —  A man who authorities said scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and broke into the Pennsylvania governor's mansion where he set a fire is in police custody …
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NBC News:
What we know about suspect in arson at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence
Washington Post:
Trump plan would slash State Dept. funding by nearly half, memo says  —  An internal document reviewed by The Post targets spending on humanitarian assistance, global health and international organizations such as the U.N. and NATO.  —  Just now  —  The Trump administration proposed to cut …
Discussion: Raw Story and Wall Street Journal
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Trump says CBS should lose license after ‘60 Minutes’ segments on Ukraine, Greenland  —  President Trump railed against CBS on Sunday night, saying the network should lose its broadcast license after “60 Minutes” aired segments on Ukraine and Greenland that the president said cast him in a negative light.
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
President Trump says CBS and ‘60 Minutes’ should ‘pay a big price’ for going after him
CNN:
Ex-January 6 prosecutors urge attorney disciplinary board to investigate Trump's controversial pick to be DC's top prosecutor  —  Five former prosecutors who worked on criminal cases stemming from the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are urging the disciplinary office governing lawyers in Washington …
Andy Bounds / Financial Times:
EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears  —  European Commission officials heading to IMF and World Bank spring meetings advised to travel with basic devices  —  The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court.  What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?  —  Is he scared, deluded, or clever?  —  ∙ Paid  —  Quick note: Tomorrow I'll be doing a Substack Live with Paul Krugman at 12:30 p.m. Eastern.  It'll be here.  —  JVL + Krugman.  Tuesday.  12:30.
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Kleptocracy, Inc.  —  Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.  —  as the stock markets crashed on Friday, April 4, Donald Trump left Washington, D.C. He did not go to New York to consult with Wall Street.  He did not go to Dover, Delaware, to receive the bodies …
David Gilbert / Wired:
HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say  —  The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency's staff and the safety of critical health data.  —  Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning …
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's $1 Billion Law Firm Deals Are the Work of His Personal Lawyer  —  Boris Epshteyn, who doesn't work for the government, has negotiated with a series of law firms to cajole them into entering deals  —  President Trump has reached around $1 billion in deals with the country's top law firms …
Discussion: Raw Story and NPR
Bryan Metzger / Business Insider:
Marjorie Taylor Greene bought thousands of dollars in stock right before Trump's tariff pause sent markets soaring  — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the more frequent stock traders in Congress.  — Just before Trump's tariff pause sent markets soaring, she bought thousands of dollars in stock.
USA Today:
North Carolina Republicans might just get away with stealing an election  —  If Republicans get away with all of it, this will be a stain on American democracy that will challenge the legitimacy of our elections for generations to come.  —  Well, it's probably happening.
National Press Club:
National Press Club Statement on Mass Layoffs at Middle East Broadcasting Networks  —  PRESS RELEASE  —  WASHINGTON, April 14 — In response to the mass layoffs at Middle East Broadcasting Networks/Alhurra and the scaling back of its programming, National Press Club President Mike Balsamo issued the following statement:
 
 
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
White House readies plan for Congress to ax ‘all’ public broadcasting funds, codify DOGE aid cuts
Discussion: Politico and National Review
Randi Weingarten / Fox News:
Trump's decision to gut the Education Department is not only illegal, it's wrong
Discussion: Salt Lake Tribune
Paz Radovic / Documented:
ICE Took His Son From Their Bronx Home. Now His Son Is In Bukele's Mega-prison In El Salvador
Politico:
Medicaid fight could come to a head in early May under GOP timeline
Discussion: The Hill and Florida Politics
George Monbiot / The Guardian:
Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature
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Steve Vladeck / One First:
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Nicole Foy / ProPublica:
Congress Has Demanded Answers to ICE Detaining Americans. The Administration Has Responded With Silence.
Discussion: Truthout
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