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Judge: Let 137 Deportees Fight Deportation to El Salvador

Boasberg cites evidence that many of the men aren't tied to Venezuelan gang

(Newser) - A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration must give more than 100 migrants sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador a chance to challenge their deportations. US District Chief Judge James Boasberg said people who were sent to the prison in March under an 18th-century wartime...

Administration Challenges Columbia's Accreditation Status

University has been out of compliance since Hamas attacked Israel, agencies say

(Newser) - The Trump administration on Wednesday opened a new front in its battle against Columbia University, accusing the prestigious school of violating antidiscrimination laws and threatening its accreditation. The Education Department said it will notify the organization that decides accreditations that its Office for Civil Rights has determined that Columbia has...

CBO: Budget Bill Slashes Taxes by $3.7T, Adds $2.4T to Deficit

White House preemptively pushes back against report, calling office 'historically wrong'

(Newser) - President Trump's big budget bill making its way through Congress will cut taxes by $3.7 trillion but also increase deficits by $2.4 trillion over the next decade, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The analysis comes at a crucial moment in...

Trump Revokes Emergency Abortion Policy

It directed hospitals to provide abortions needed to stabilize medical condition

(Newser) - The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it would revoke guidance to the nation's hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition. That guidance was issued to hospitals in 2022, weeks after the Supreme Court upended national abortion...

Greene: I Would Have Voted No If I Knew What Was in Bill

Leading some critics to suggest she maybe should have read all of it first

(Newser) - Marjorie Taylor Greene apparently admitted to not reading all of President Trump's "one big, beautiful bill" before voting for it in the House of Representatives. "Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to...

Consumers Hedge on Shopping, but Not Here

Dollar General posts record sales amid tariffs; its stock rises, as does Dollar Tree's

(Newser) - Dollar General set a quarterly sales record and upgraded its annual profit and sales outlook as Americans tighten their budgets and spend more at bargain stores amid economic uncertainty. The US economy shrank at a 0.2% annual pace from January through March, the first drop in three years, as...

Schwarzenegger to Tree Huggers: 'Stop Whining and Get to Work'

Governator has little patience for those wringing their hands over Trump's policies

(Newser) - Arnold Schwarzenegger has a message for environmentalists who despair at the approach of President Trump's administration: Quit your bellyaching. The new US administration has taken an ax to Biden-era environmental ambitions, rolled back landmark regulations, withdrawn climate project funding, and instead bolstered support for oil and gas production in...

Administration Threatens State Over Banning Tribal Mascots

Linda McMahon calls New York's policy a civil rights violation

(Newser) - The Education Department has jumped into New York's effort to eliminate the use of Native American-themed names and mascots by the state's high schools—in opposition. More than two years after New York's Education Department told schools they risk losing funding if they keep tribal mascots, the...

Trump Angrily Breaks With Federalist Society

Post suggests an end to the alliance that picked much of the federal bench, including the Supreme Court

(Newser) - After regularly attacking judges who didn't rule his way, President Trump has turned to the organization that recommended nominees for the federal bench to him. "I am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations," Trump wrote...

Trump Says He's Firing National Portrait Gallery Chief

Whether he has the authority to remove Kim Sajet, the first woman in that role, remains unclear

(Newser) - President Trump announced Friday he has fired Kim Sajet, the longtime director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Sajet, who was the first woman in the role, led the gallery for 12 years. Trump made the move public in a Truth Social post , citing recommendations from "many...

Trump Tries to Ease Workers' Minds on Nippon-US Steel Deal

President says US Steel will 'stay an American company,' vows to double steel tariffs to 50%

(Newser) - President Trump on Friday told Pennsylvania steelworkers he's doubling the tariff on steel imports to 50% to protect their industry, a dramatic increase that could further push up prices for a metal used to make housing, autos, and other goods. In a post later on his Truth Social platform,...

PBS Sues Trump Over Executive Order to End Funding

President can't decide programming, filing argues

(Newser) - PBS sued President Trump on Friday to keep his executive order to end its federal funding from taking effect, calling the government's action unconstitutional. The suit filed in US District Court in Washington contends that the Trump administration violated the public broadcaster's First Amendment rights and the law...

Critics Decry 'Outrageous' New Office at State Dept.

Detractors say proposed 'Office of Remigration' has the ultimate goal of ethnic cleansing

(Newser) - The State Department under Secretary Marco Rubio is undergoing a major reorg , and out of that dust has emerged an apparent new subdivision: the "Office of Remigration," which an agency official says will fall under the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, per Axios . The new office, first...

Someone Has Been Impersonating Trump's Chief of Staff: Report

Sources say FBI is investigating calls, texts from somebody claiming to be Susie Wiles

(Newser) - Somebody has reportedly been impersonating one of the most powerful women in America. Sources tell the Wall Street Journal that prominent Republicans and business leaders have been receiving calls and text messages from somebody claiming to be White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, one of President Trump's closest...

Administration Names, Warns 500 Sanctuary Jurisdictions

Under Trump's executive order, agencies will go after the governments' federal grants and contracts

(Newser) - The Department of Homeland Security is putting more than 500 sanctuary jurisdictions across the country on notice that the Trump administration views them as obstructing immigration enforcement—as it attempts to increase pressure on communities it says are standing in the way of the president's mass deportations agenda. The...

Trump Has One Big Gripe About Qatar Luxury Jet

'Frankly, it's much too big,' he told reporters on Wednesday of the controversial 'gift' from Mideast

(Newser) - President Trump makes no secret of admiring "big, beautiful" things , but the controversial $400 million luxury jet he says was a gift to the US from Qatar may be too large, even for him. Although Trump told reporters on Wednesday that the recently accepted Boeing 747, which the Defense...

Elon Musk's Time With the Trump Administration Is Over

Billionaire is no longer a special government employee

(Newser) - Elon Musk's time as a special government employee has officially come to an end, a White House official tells NBC News . The billionaire, who had recently pledged to pay more attention to the actual companies he runs , started offboarding from his role in the Trump administration Wednesday—the day...

'Disappointed' Musk Breaks With Trump on Spending Bill

DOGE master says the 'Big Beautiful Bill Act' will inflate federal deficit, undermines DOGE work

(Newser) - Elon Musk says he's stepping back a bit from helping the Trump administration slash federal spending via his Department of Government Efficiency, and he's also now stepping back a bit in supporting the Trump agenda—at least when it comes to the "big beautiful" spending package recently...

Report: Feds Plan to Step Up Vetting for Student Visas

Embassies pause student visa interviews to prepare for increased scrutiny of social media

(Newser) - The Trump administration is considering mandatory social media checks for all foreign students applying to study in the US. A cable obtained by Politico directs US embassies and consulates to halt scheduling new visa interviews for students until further notice to prepare for stepped-up vetting. The order, signed by...

NPR Sues White House Over 'Textbook Retaliation'

Broadcaster says Trump administration isn't being subtle about cutting off funding, 'comes as a wolf'

(Newser) - National Public Radio promised to fight a presidential executive order cutting off its federal funding, and now that's exactly what it's doing. The public broadcaster—which, along with PBS, was targeted by President Trump's executive order earlier this month accusing them of being "biased media"—...

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