Trump, asked if he has to ‘uphold the Constitution,’ says, 'I don't know'  —  Trump said on NBC News' “Meet the Press” that he's following lawyers' advice as he tries to execute rapid deportations, arguing that giving immigrants due process is time-consuming.

Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health  —  More than $800 million in N.I.H. grants canceled as of early May — nearly half of those terminated to date — covered the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times found.  —  The Trump administration has scrapped …

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked  —  A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages, 404 Media has learned.

Catholic leaders criticize Trump for posting apparent AI photo of himself as the pope  —  Some Catholic leaders and at least one U.S. Catholic group are criticizing President Trump after he posted on social media what appears to be an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself dressed as the pope.

Trump's 48-hour scramble to fly migrants to a Salvadoran prison  —  The administration rounded up some of the Venezuelans two days before the flights took off, pressing forward even as Venezuela agreed to accept deportees.  —  The message from Secretary of State Marco Rubio …

Justice Department lawyers face skeptical judges upset by ‘shoddy work’  —  As they defend against more than 200 lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump's initiatives, some government lawyers are getting scolded from the bench.  —  Justice Department lawyers defending …

Biden Aides Decided Against a Cognitive Test in Early 2024, Book Says  —  His White House advisers considered giving him such a test to prove his fitness for a second term, but they worried it would draw new attention to his age, according to a forthcoming book.

Rebuke.  —  They thought they could export the chaos.  They thought nationalism was a currency that could be traded across borders, that autocratic rhetoric could be franchised like a fast-food chain, and that the world would follow their script.  But instead of ushering in a new global rightwing order …

‘Everyone knew it but him’: Tiffany Trump's father-in-law has seen role diminished since the transition  —  Massad Boulos' struggle to gain influence is a case study in Trump power politics.  —  Massad Boulos arrived at Joint Base Andrews in early April as the Trump administration's newest official …

Eight arrested in two separate anti-terror operations  —  Eight men, including seven Iranian nationals, have been arrested in two separate counter-terrorism police investigations.  —  Five were arrested at various locations around England on Saturday as part of a “pre-planned” …

The World Is Finally Seeing How Dangerous Bukele Really Is  —  In May 2020, during the height of Covid, El Salvador was under a military-enforced lockdown.  At a news conference, I asked President Nayib Bukele a straightforward question about meeting with the business community about reopening the economy.