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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Case Against Man Deported in “Error” Just Took Another Big Hit — As Trump administration officials seek to defend their refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States after deporting him in “error,” one of the government's chief justifications has been that he was a member of the MS-13 gang.
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Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Karoline Leavitt Melts Down Over Deported ‘Father of the Year’ — LEAVITT ALONE — Trump's press secretary mocked the Maryland father who the administration mistakenly deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison. — White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lashed out at reporters Tuesday …
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NBC News:
Judge in Abrego Garcia case indicates she's weighing contempt proceedings against Trump administration — U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis also ordered the administration to provide evidence about what steps it's taken — or hasn't taken — to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Trump Admin's New Defense For Accidentally Sending Abrego Garcia To Salvadoran Torture Camp: We Meant To Do That — The Trump administration has settled on a terrifying new legal theory: they can declare anyone a “terrorist,” ship them to an offshore torture camp without due process …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
In Showdowns With the Courts, Trump Is Increasingly Combative
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Politico:
Judge launches inquiry into Trump administration's refusal to seek return of wrongly deported man
Judge launches inquiry into Trump administration's refusal to seek return of wrongly deported man
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New York Times:
‘Alien Enemies’ or Innocent Men? Inside Trump's Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants
‘Alien Enemies’ or Innocent Men? Inside Trump's Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants
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The Nation, Raw Story, Data For Progress, NextDraft, Reuters, Associated Press and New York Times
Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Trump Says He's Powerless to Return Deported Migrant. But He's Done So Before.
Trump Says He's Powerless to Return Deported Migrant. But He's Done So Before.
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Christian Science Monitor, NBC News and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Judge says Justice Department must provide details of attempts to return wrongly deported man
Judge says Justice Department must provide details of attempts to return wrongly deported man
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Marina Dunbar / The Guardian:
Ice deports Venezuelan teen despite reportedly knowing he was not a target
Ice deports Venezuelan teen despite reportedly knowing he was not a target
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The City
Roger Parloff / Default:
Abrego Garcia and MS-13: What Do We Know?
Abrego Garcia and MS-13: What Do We Know?
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Jeffrey Blehar / National Review:
Trump Tests the True Limits of Presidential Power
Trump Tests the True Limits of Presidential Power
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Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
The authoritarian takeover attempt is here
The authoritarian takeover attempt is here
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Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch News:
Federal Judge Set to Order Two Weeks of Intensive Expedited Discovery in Abrego Garcia Case
Federal Judge Set to Order Two Weeks of Intensive Expedited Discovery in Abrego Garcia Case
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Steve Vladeck / One First:
143. The State of Play in the Abrego Garcia Case
143. The State of Play in the Abrego Garcia Case
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New Yorker, Fox News, The Atlantic, Axios and Talking Points Memo
Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Exclusive: Top Hegseth adviser Dan Caldwell put on leave in Pentagon leak probe — One of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leading advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense, a U.S. official told Reuters.
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Bloomberg Tax:
IRS to Lose 20% of Workforce to New Trump Resignation Offer — About 20,000 IRS workers—roughly one-fifth of the agency—are taking the Trump administration's second deferred resignation offer, according to a person familiar with the matter. — That uptake effectively reverses the staff hikes …
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Scolds Government for Doing ‘Nothing’ to Return Deported Man
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New York Times:
More Than 20,000 I.R.S. Employees Offer to Resign
More Than 20,000 I.R.S. Employees Offer to Resign
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CNBC, The Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit, Northern Ag Network, Reuters, The Hill, CNN and Associated Press
Donald Moynihan / The Atlantic:
DOGE Is Making the IRS a Tip Jar for Public Services
DOGE Is Making the IRS a Tip Jar for Public Services
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Mohar Chatterjee / Politico:
Pentagon's ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse — Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director. — Under pressure from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, nearly all the staff …
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Jenna McLaughlin / NPR:
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data — In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.
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Sharon Zhang / Truthout:
Whistleblower Who Exposed DOGE Raid of NLRB Data Finds Threats Taped to His Door
Whistleblower Who Exposed DOGE Raid of NLRB Data Finds Threats Taped to His Door
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Alternet.org, NPR and Eschaton
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Biden to deliver first public address since leaving White House — Former President Biden is set to deliver his first public address since leaving the White House, speaking at the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled (ACRD) in Chicago on Tuesday, according to a release from the organization.
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CNN:
The Trump White House is axing the wire service spot from the coverage pool, the latest salvo in its battle with the AP — Instead of restoring access to The Associated Press newswire, as required by a federal judge, the Trump administration is removing the wire position in the daily press corps rotation altogether.
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Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
White House Moves to Limit Newswire Access After AP Lawsuit Win
White House Moves to Limit Newswire Access After AP Lawsuit Win
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Troy Closson / New York Times:
Columbia Vows to Reject Any Trump Deal That Erodes Its Independence — A message from the university's acting president said that talks with the Trump administration were continuing as the White House is seeking to place the school under judicial oversight.
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Patrick Reis / Vox:
The demands Harvard refused
The demands Harvard refused
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Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:
The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers — The world's richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump. He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over money and privacy.
Joseph Gedeon / The Guardian:
Senator Chuck Grassley grilled at Iowa town hall over ‘shameful’ Trump policies — The Republican, 91, was confronted by attendees angered over mass deportations and executive overreach — The Republican senator Chuck Grassley struggled to control a town hall meeting on Tuesday …
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Jericho Tran / NBC Boston:
‘Treated like a criminal’: US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada — Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont — A New Hampshire real estate attorney and American citizen returning home …
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The Independent
Gerardo Beltran Salinas / The New Bedford Light:
Lawyer: Federal agents detain Guatemalan man, 29, with no criminal record — A Guatemalan immigrant with no Massachusetts criminal record was arrested Monday on Tallman Street after federal agents shattered the glass on his vehicle as he and his wife waited inside the car for their lawyer to arrive.
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
The NPR, PBS Grift Has Ripped Us Off for Too Long — For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as “news.” — As President Trump has stated …
Jon Keegan / Sherwood News:
Shop this look: Buy cheap, faux gold dupes of Oval Office decor — BARGAIN BAROQUE — Shop this look: Buy cheap, faux gold dupes of Oval Office decor … By Luke Kawa — 2H — US stocks slip on poor progress in trade talks with the EU — Major indexes gave up early gains …
Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:
Republicans Are Trying to Steal an Election — Republicans are trying to steal an election in North Carolina. They have been laying the groundwork for five months, and unless the federal courts intervene, they just might succeed. If they do, it could usher in a new era of election subversion in future contests across the country.
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caut.ca:
CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S. — Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encountering difficulties crossing the border, CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.
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Global News
Augusta Saraiva / Bloomberg:
US Economy to Lose Billions as Foreign Tourists Stay Away … The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk elevated.
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Fenit Nirappil / Washington Post:
Autism rate increased, CDC says in report that contradicts RFK Jr. on cause — In a sample of communities, the biennial autism surveillance report found that 1 in 31 8-year-olds had the condition. The CDC attributed the increase to better screening. — One in 31 8-year-olds had autism …
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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
State Terror — Yesterday the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. — This is the beginning …
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The Bulwark, Raw Story and Mediaite
Axios:
Scoop: Top House Dems trying to send delegation to El Salvador — Two members of House Democratic leadership are trying to send an official congressional delegation to the El Salvadorian prison where the Trump administration is sending deportees, Axios has learned.
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump is halfway to making America a police state — The president's refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point — At around noon on April 14 2025, America ceased to have a law-abiding government. Some would argue that had already happened on January 20, when Donald Trump was inaugurated.
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Stephen Rodrick / Rolling Stone:
Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Now I See Myself More as a Place to Scream’ — The late-night stalwart talks about taking on Trump, growing up in Vegas, and his path from host of The Man Show to defender of democracy — T … This is not the case. The talk-show host's workspace is very public …
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