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4:20 PM ET, April 14, 2025

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Washington Post:
Salvadoran president says he won't return wrongly deported man to U.S.  —  Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said Monday that he did not plan to return to Kilmar Abrego García to the United States.  “How can I return him to the United States?”  Bukele asked Monday during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Trump Administration Is Sticking to Its Gulag Plan in Defiance of the Supreme Court  —  The Trump administration escalated its defiance of federal court orders over the weekend, adamantly refusing to reverse its illegal deportation of a Maryland father, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, to an El Salvador prison.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Constitutional Crisis Is Here  —  Between the path of outright defiance of the Supreme Court and following its order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador's infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the Trump administration has chosen a third way …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Bukele's Offense Against the American People  —  Here's how I look at today's White House spectacle.  —  I don't really care what these two men say.  The only next step I'm focused on is the one that now faces the Supreme Court.  The White House is now brazenly ignoring the crystal clear import …
Discussion: American Greatness
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. and El Salvador Won't Return Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported
Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Trump hosts El Salvador's Bukele amid deportation controversy
The Harvard Crimson:
Harvard Will Fight Trump's Demands  —  Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration's demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garber '76 announced in a message to affiliates Monday afternoon.
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Harvard University President:
The Promise of American Higher Education  —  For three-quarters of a century, the federal government has awarded grants and contracts to Harvard and other universities to help pay for work that, along with investments by the universities themselves, has led to groundbreaking innovations across …
Vimal Patel / New York Times:
Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration's Demands  —  Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things.  Harvard called the demands unlawful.  —  Harvard University said on Monday that it had rejected policy changes requested …
Discussion: New York Post
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Harvard rejects Trump administration's demands with federal funding at risk  —  The university's response comes after the government announced a federal review of nearly $9 billion in funding to Harvard and its affiliates.  —  With billions of dollars in federal funding at risk …
Discussion: Axios
Mike Damiano / The Boston Globe:
Harvard says it will not yield to Trump's demands
Discussion: New York Daily News
New York Times:   Inside Trump's Pressure Campaign on Universities
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event  —  Despite a court order, a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press were barred from an Oval Office news conference on Monday with President Donald Trump and his counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
AP says journalists blocked from Oval Office after judge's order  —  The Associated Press on Monday said its journalists were barred from covering an Oval Office event featuring President Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in defiance of a court injunction.
Akela Lacy / The Intercept:
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE  —  Mohsen K. Mahdawi arrived at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vermont, on Monday.  A Palestinian student at Columbia University, he hoped that, after 10 years in the U.S. …
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Associated Press:
Suspect in arson at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence being treated at hospital, police say  —  A man who authorities said scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and broke into the Pennsylvania governor's mansion where he set a fire is in police custody …
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NBC News:
What we know about suspect in arson at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Trump says CBS should lose license after ‘60 Minutes’ segments on Ukraine, Greenland  —  President Trump railed against CBS on Sunday night, saying the network should lose its broadcast license after “60 Minutes” aired segments on Ukraine and Greenland that the president said cast him in a negative light.
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
President Trump says CBS and ‘60 Minutes’ should ‘pay a big price’ for going after him
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump urges the FCC to punish ‘60 Minutes’ over reports on Greenland and Ukraine
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
Trump plan would slash State Dept. funding by nearly half, memo says  —  An internal document reviewed by The Post targets spending on humanitarian assistance, global health and international organizations such as the U.N. and NATO.  —  Just now  —  The Trump administration proposed to cut …
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
White House readies plan for Congress to ax ‘all’ public broadcasting funds, codify DOGE aid cuts  —  WASHINGTON — The White House has begun to notify Congress of a request to eliminate “all” public broadcasting funding and codify foreign-aid cuts identified by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, The Post has learned.
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Politico:   White House to send Congress a formal request to nix $9.3B for PBS, State Department
Andy Bounds / Financial Times:
EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears  —  European Commission officials heading to IMF and World Bank spring meetings advised to travel with basic devices  —  The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court.  What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?  —  Is he scared, deluded, or clever?  —  ∙ Paid  —  Quick note: Tomorrow I'll be doing a Substack Live with Paul Krugman at 12:30 p.m. Eastern.  It'll be here.  —  JVL + Krugman.  Tuesday.  12:30.
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Kleptocracy, Inc.  —  Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.  —  as the stock markets crashed on Friday, April 4, Donald Trump left Washington, D.C. He did not go to New York to consult with Wall Street.  He did not go to Dover, Delaware, to receive the bodies …
David Gilbert / Wired:
HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say  —  The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency's staff and the safety of critical health data.  —  Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning …
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's $1 Billion Law Firm Deals Are the Work of His Personal Lawyer  —  Boris Epshteyn, who doesn't work for the government, has negotiated with a series of law firms to cajole them into entering deals  —  President Trump has reached around $1 billion in deals with the country's top law firms …
Discussion: Above the Law, Raw Story and NPR
 
 
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