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.

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.

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 …

Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison  —  President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island.  In a message on his Truth Social site Sunday evening, Trump wrote that, “For too long …

Democrats Denounce Rubio Holding Four Roles in Trump Administration  —  “There's no way he can carry all that entire load on his own,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth said of Rubio occupying multiple jobs in the executive branch  —  Secretary of state, acting administrator for USAID, acting lead archivist, acting national security adviser.

Trump on using military force says “I don't see it with Canada,” but “something could happen with Greenland.”  —  President Trump said he would talk to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney about making Canada the 51st state.  But the president said he didn't expect it to get to the point …

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.

Air Traffic Controller Warns Major Airport Unsafe for Travel: ‘Avoid Newark at All Costs’  —  TURBULENCE AHEAD  —  Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pleaded this week for more people to become air traffic controllers.  —  An air traffic controller warned Friday that Newark Liberty International Airport …

Adani Camp Meets Trump Officials in Push to End US Bribery Cases  —  Representatives for Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his companies met Trump administration officials about dismissing the criminal charges levied against him in an overseas bribery probe, according to people familiar with the matter.

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 …

Scoop: Trump plans to announce D.C. will host 2027 NFL Draft  —  President Trump plans to announce Monday that Washington, D.C., will host the 2027 NFL Draft, with the aim of holding it on the National Mall, Axios has learned.  — The announcement is expected to be made with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell …

The White House's Next Orchestrated Budget Crisis … This is something I'm still trying to get my head around - both the technical legislative details as well as how all this plays in political terms.  The details are still fuzzy to me but I want to get the outlines in front of you.

The Trump family is taking crypto payoffs in the middle of Fifth Avenue.  Who will stop them?  —  A trucking logistics magnate from Monterrey, Mexico, named Javier Selgas didn't need to direct a rig laden with crypto cash toward Trump Tower on New York's gilded Fifth Avenue …

These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful  —  With a blitz of moves in his 100 days in office, President Trump has sought to greatly enlarge executive power.  The typical explanation is that he's following and expanding a legal idea devised by conservatives during the Reagan administration, the unitary executive theory.