Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped  —  The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime …

Chuck Schumer on Democrats, Antisemitism and His Shutdown Retreat  —  Philip Montgomery for The New York Times  —  It has been quite a week for Chuck Schumer.  When I spoke to the Senate minority leader on Monday, we talked about a lot of things: the direction of his party …

He voted for Trump.  Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.  —  Bradley Bartell and Camila Muñoz had a familiar small-town love story, before they collided with immigration politics.  —  They met through mutual friends, had a first date at the local steakhouse …

Trump tapped Kari Lake to run VOA.  Then he dismantled it.  —  Lake had big plans to transform the outlet into a powerful “weapon” to fight an “information war.”  Instead, the president has essentially shut it down.  —  Just now  —  During his first term, Donald Trump accused Voice …

Nervous about Trump, international tourists scrap their U.S. travel plans  —  The Trump administration's hard stance on tariffs and other international policies has some travelers rethinking where they vacation.  —  International travelers concerned about President Donald Trump's trade policies …

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 …

Top broadband official exits Commerce Department with sharp Musk warning  —  “Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Evan Feinman warned.

Trade War Retaliation Will Hit Trump Voters Hardest  —  The counties where tariffs could hit jobs, by presidential vote winner  —  Source: New York Times analysis of data from Lightcast and the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.  Note: Vote results are for the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Featured Comment  —  Bill Clinton enacted his Reinventing Government package of streamlining restructuring (REIGO) in 1993, when he still held legislative majorities.  It was passed by a margin of ONE VOTE.  Al Gore was the one who actually drafted the plan in writing …

Nita Lowey, first woman to chair House appropriations panel, dies at 87  —  A liberal Democrat from New York, she championed women's issues and rose to one of the most influential positions on Capitol Hill during 32 years in Congress.  —  Nita M. Lowey, a liberal New York Democrat who won …

Don't Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Columbia  —  Columbia University is now the epicenter of the American culture war.  The Trump administration is targeting a former Columbia student — and the university itself — as a test case for its new authoritarian regime.

‘Not getting the donations’: DC insider notes Kennedy Center decline after Trump takeover  —  A longtime insider who has been at the center of the Washington, D.C. social scene for decade claims Donald Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center is destroying the venerable institution as ticket sales dry up …

What Authoritarianism Means  —  An audio version of this piece will be added by Monday morning.  —  It has been almost two months since Donald Trump's inauguration.  It feels much longer.  The speed and the scope of the assault on the constitutional order, on the foundations of democratic self-government have been unprecedented.

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives  —  Since scientists first began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count.  One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap.