
BY REBECCA BEITSCH, AL WEAVER AND LAURA KELLY |
Sen. Chris Van Hollen's (D-Md.) trip to El Salvador to visit a mistakenly deported constituent has thrust the mild-mannered lawmaker into a major battle with the Trump administration as it doubles down on its pledge to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia imprisoned abroad.
Van Hollen embarked for the Central American nation on Wednesday after saying he would travel there if Abrego Garcia had not been returned by mid-week. |
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Democrats trying to find their way back from their 2024 election losses are taking aim at former President Biden for reemerging on the national stage.
Biden came back into view this week to deliver his first public postpresidency speech after largely being absent from the political discussion.
But some Democrats said they'd prefer the former president take a back seat as the party puts its shoulder into its rebuilding efforts. |
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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is threatening to upend the New York governor's race as she considers a challenge to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) next year.
Stefanik has not confirmed that she's running yet, but the possibility of her jumping in is already unsettling the GOP primary in the Empire State, where Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) had been seen as the most likely choice for the GOP nomination. |
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A divided federal appeals court panel on Friday temporarily halted U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's contempt proceedings against the Trump administration over its deportation flights to El Salvador last month.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit indicated its order is intended to provide "sufficient opportunity" for the court to consider the government's appeal and "should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion." |
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Former Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) was projected to win a special election to become the next mayor of Oakland, according to Decision Desk HQ, in what became a closer-than-expected race amid growing voter dissatisfaction over the direction of the city.
Lee won the nonpartisan ranked-choice election over a field of more than a half dozen candidates, with the most prominent being former City Council member Loren Taylor, who was the runner-up to now-former Mayor Sheng Thao (D) in the 2022 mayoral race and emerged as this election's dark-horse contender. |
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A federal judge ordered that Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained late last month, be transferred from a detention center in Louisiana to Vermont no later than at the start of next month.
District Judge William Sessions ruled Friday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has until May 1 to move Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts, to Vermont, where she will be in custody. Sessions also ordered that Ozturk's bail hearing take place on May 9, during which will have to appear in person. |
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Probationary workers who were refired this month from the Commerce Department say their health insurance is being terminated earlier than they expected.
The workers had expected their health insurance to run into May. |
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President Trump weighed in on the cost of eggs around the country, claiming Friday at the White House that the prices are "getting too low."
Trump praised Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins for doing a "great" job and then asserted that egg prices are "down 87 percent, but nobody talks about that." |
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Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) announced that she will travel to El Salvador to demand that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian national who was mistakenly deported from the U.S., be released from prison in the country.
"A legal U.S. resident has had his due process rights ripped away and is now being held indefinitely in a foreign prison. This is not just one family's nightmare; it is a constitutional crisis that should outrage every single one of us," Dexter said in a statement Friday night. |
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OPINION | As a seasoned legal marketing consultant, I urge the media to stop whitewashing President Trump's shake-down of Big Law firms as "pro bono legal services." Simply put, Trump's barrage of executive orders, which have extracted almost $1 billion in free work from prominent law firms and lawyers whom he regards as enemies, is extortion for personal legal services credits for the president, or for anyone he chooses. Further, they may create conflicts that could provide additional personal benefits for him in the future. |
OPINION | The importance of the economic relationship between the U.S. and South Korea was cast into sharp relief last week. South Korea's Acting President Han Duck-soo was among the first world leaders to call President Trump and begin trade-rebalancing negotiations to avoid steep new U.S. tariffs.
Despite the political turbulence in both countries — the U.S. is attempting to remake the global trading order and South Korea removed its president from office early this month — the economic bond between the U.S. and South Korea remains resilient and is even poised for growth. This enduring partnership is underpinned by Korean companies' multi-billion-dollar investments and job creation across various sectors, as well as by U.S. investment in South Korea. |
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BY MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT AND MICHAEL C. BENDER |
Harvard University received an emailed letter from the Trump administration last Friday that included a series of demands about hiring, admissions and curriculum so onerous that school officials decided they had no choice but to take on the White House. The university announced its intentions on Monday, setting off a tectonic battle between one of the country's most prestigious universities and a U.S. president. Then, almost immediately, came a frantic call from a Trump official. |
BY ALEXANDER SAEEDY AND JOSH DAWSEY |
They needed to get the president alone.
On April 9, financial markets were going haywire. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wanted President Trump to put a pause on his aggressive global tariff plan. But there was a big obstacle: Peter Navarro, Trump's tariff-loving trade adviser, who was constantly hovering around the Oval Office.
Navarro isn't one to back down during policy debates and had stridently urged Trump to keep tariffs in place, even as corporate chieftains and other advisers urged him to relent. And Navarro had been regularly around the Oval Office since Trump's "Liberation Day" event. |
During his campaign, President Trump said repeatedly that he would be able to end the war between Russia and Ukraine "in 24 hours" upon taking office. He has changed his tone since becoming president again.
As various U.S. emissaries have held talks looking for an end to the war, both Trump and his top officials have become more reserved about the prospects of a peace deal. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday suggested the U.S. might soon back away from negotiations altogether without more progress, adding a comment that sounded like a repudiation of the president's old comments.
"No one's saying this can be done in 12 hours," he told reporters. |
Here are a few matters on which the front-runners in Canada's federal election agree: The United States is no longer a reliable partner. Canada cannot control President Donald Trump. His tariffs on Canadian goods are unjustified. And Canada will never be the 51st state.
The country's "old relationship with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is over," Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader Mark Carney has said. Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has said Trump "constantly betrays" Canada and is "unreliable. |
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