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9:25 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 …
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.
Discussion: Associated Press
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
The Week Ahead  —  It's going to be an eventful week.  That's already clear.  Chief among the issues is whether this is the week we reach the tipping point where the administration flagrantly ignores a federal court's order, and we begin to see the ensuing constitutional crisis, which would be full blown at that point, play out.
Discussion: Forbes and ACLU
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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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump administration ignores judge's order to turn deportation planes around: Sources
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Annie Correal / New York Times:
Venezuelan Families Fear for Relatives as Trump Celebrates Deportations
Discussion: New York Daily News and DNyuz
New York Times:
White House Denies Violating Judge's Order in Deporting Venezuelans
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.
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.
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
Discussion: Raw Story
Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times:
Social Security Employees Warn of Damage From 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: Raw Story, Kiplinger and Fortune
Patrick Smith / NBC News:
Trump says Biden's pardons for Jan. 6 committee are ‘void’ because he used an autopen  —  Trump has argued that the committee members are guilty of unspecified “major crimes.”  —  President Donald Trump declared his predecessor's pardons for members of the House select committee that investigated …
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
‘Dictator S**t’: Trump's Middle-Of-The-Night Meltdown Nulling Biden Pardons Is Slammed
Paul Krugman:
Destroying America's Brand  —  Losing the world's trust, and a lot of money too  —  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.
Lauren Egan / The Bulwark:
Chuck Schumer Is Facing a Biden Moment  —  The problem wasn't just the sellout.  It was the sense that he lacked vigor.  —  Chuck's Turn in the Barrel  —  SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER'S handling of the government funding fight has caused such damage to his standing in the party …
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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 …
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
DOGE's Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread  —  Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.
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.
Discussion: LifeSite
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
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 …
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.
Joshua Keating / Vox:
Has Trump already killed NATO?  —  Throughout his first term as president, Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to leave NATO, an alliance that in his view allows other countries who don't spend enough on their own defense to get a free ride on US security guarantees.
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 …
David Enrich / New York Times:
As Voice of America Goes Dark, Some Broadcasts Are Replaced by Music  —  President Trump's executive order on Friday calling for the dismantling of the federal agency that oversees the broadcaster is part of a wider campaign to weaken the news media.  —  For more than 80 years …
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Democrats demand investigation into Musk over possible criminal corruption  —  Leading figures urge Pam Bondi to examine 'Mr Musk's activities at the FAA' amid conflict-of-interest concerns  — Never miss global breaking news.  Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time
Discussion: CBS News
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.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 
 
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Madeleine Ngo / New York Times:
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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
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Discussion: New York Times
ProPublica:
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
Axios:
Trump's historic test of immigrants' speech rights
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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Who DOGE Hurts: Gutting NOAA
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
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
Discussion: Twitchy
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
Discussion: PinkNews, Civil War Memory and DNyuz
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Nervous about Trump, international tourists scrap their U.S. travel plans
Discussion: The Independent