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Maine Governor Responds to Trump's Apology Demand

Janet Mills pushes back again on president's attack against transgender athletes

(Newser) - Last month, President Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills got into a verbal argument during a National Governors Association meeting at the White House, after Trump attacked Mills for allowing transgender athletes to play on girls' and women's teams in her state and Mills pushed back, telling him, "...

Another Columbia Student Sues to Stop Deportation

Yunseo Chung, 21, has been in the US since age 7

(Newser) - Another Columbia University student said Monday that the Trump administration has targeted her for deportation over her pro-Palestinian views, accusing immigration officials in a lawsuit of employing the same tactics used on Mahmoud Khalil and other college activists, the AP reports. Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old lawful permanent resident who came...

Postmaster General Leaves Early
DeJoy
Resigns
Early
Mar 24, 2025 6:30 PM CDT

DeJoy Resigns Early

Trump, Musk have talked about taking the Postal Service private

(Newser) - Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who had planned to stay on until a successor was named, instead left office on Monday. DeJoy, who had put in his notice last month after five years in the job and a restructuring of the agency, had asked the Postal Service's board of governors...

Judge: Nazis Got Better Treatment Than Venezuelans

Judges appear divided on push to lift order on deportation of alleged gang members

(Newser) - A panel of appeals court judges appeared divided Monday on a Trump administration push to lift an order blocking deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law—a case that has become a flashpoint amid escalating tension with the federal courts. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett...

Trump Border Czar: We'll Abide by Judge's Deportation Order

Though Tom Homan doesn't specify exactly what that means, given the flights already landed

(Newser) - President Trump's border czar said less than a week ago that he didn't "care what the judges think" regarding the administration's controversial deportation flights to El Salvador, which continued despite a judge ordering them to turn around last weekend, and that more would be coming . He...

White House Wants Corporate Sponsors for Easter Egg Roll

Some ethics experts are raising concerns

(Newser) - In recent years, the White House Easter Egg Roll has cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and now, the Trump administration is putting forward an unconventional idea to fund it: corporate sponsorships. The event production company Harbinger, which is putting on this year's Egg Roll, is offering sponsorship opportunities...

Trump Sends Team to Look Over Greenland

Usha Vance to 'learn about Greenlandic heritage' and attend dogsled race, White House says

(Newser) - Usha Vance will visit Greenland this week, White House aides announced Sunday, to see historical sites and "learn about Greenlandic heritage" in a Danish territory that President Trump has said he wants the US to absorb. The second lady will travel there Thursday to see "historical sites, learn...

South Africa Crowds Cheer Envoy Expelled by US

Rubio had said Ebrahim Rasool hates Trump

(Newser) - The South African ambassador who was expelled from the US and declared persona non grata by the Trump administration was given a hero's welcome on his return home Sunday, when hundreds of supporters gathered at an airport and sang songs praising him. The crowds at Cape Town International Airport...

Lawsuit Calls Shutdown of Voice of America Illegal

Trump appointee Kari Lake has called the broadcast agency supplying US news around the world 'a giant rot'

(Newser) - A lawsuit filed late Friday accuses the Trump administration of unlawfully shutting down the Voice of America and asks a federal court to restore the outlet that for decades has supplied news about the US to nations around the world—including many that lack a free press of their own....

Lutnick: Only a 'Fraudster' Would Gripe Over Missing SS Payments

Billionaire Commerce chief scoffs at idea of seniors upset by skipped Social Security payment

(Newser) - A Trump Cabinet member has caused a ruckus with his remarks about Social Security, using one of his own family members in his narrative. As the GOP tries to assuage Americans' fears that benefits paid out by the Social Security Administration are on the chopping block, Commerce Secretary Howard Ludnick...

After 'Extraordinary Ultimatum,' Columbia Caves

Ivy League updates rules on protests, masks amid threats by Trump administration

(Newser) - Columbia University agreed Friday to put its Middle East studies department under new supervision and overhaul its rules for protests and student discipline, acquiescing to an extraordinary ultimatum by the Trump administration to implement those and other changes or risk losing billions of dollars in federal funding.
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Critics Decry 'Cruel' DHS Move Against 532K Immigrants

Homeland Security to revoke legal protections for Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans

(Newser) - The Department of Homeland Security said Friday it will revoke legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, setting them up for potential deportation in about a month. The order applies to about 532,000 people from the four countries who came to the United States...

DHS Clears Civil Rights Office, Saying Watchdogs Obstructed

Democrats say administration is ridding itself of oversight

(Newser) - Nearly the entire staff of the civil rights office in the Department of Homeland Security, which has oversight of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement, was fired on Friday. Two other watchdog agencies in DHS that look into complaints and advocate for immigrants also essentially were shut down, the Washington ...

Musk Daughter: He Didn't Move 'Further' Right Because of Me
Musk's Daughter Doesn't
Mince Words About Her Dad
INTERVIEW
Mar 21, 2025 1:00 PM CDT

Musk's Daughter Doesn't Mince Words About Her Dad

Vivian Wilson, 20, chats with Teen Vogue about politics, her 'pathetic man-child' father

(Newser) - Relations have been strained between Elon Musk and daughter Vivian Wilson for quite some time, and it's unlikely they'll improve anytime soon—at least not based on a new interview that the 20-year-old granted to Ella Yurman of Teen Vogue. In it, Wilson rails against her father and...

Trump: SBA Will Handle Student Loans Going Forward

His announcement comes as agency says it will cut 43% of jobs

(Newser) - The Small Business Administration's 6,500 workers make up less than half a percent of the entire federal workforce, per CBS News —and that figure is set to shrink. The agency on Friday announced that it planned to cut its workforce by 43%, for an eventual annual cost...

UK, Germany Issue US Travel Warnings
UK, Germany Issue
US Travel Warnings
Mar 21, 2025 10:45 AM CDT

UK, Germany Issue US Travel Warnings

Nations are wary of their citizens visiting US amid Trump administration moves

(Newser) - Two US allies have adjusted their travel recommendations for the United States, and not in an encouraging direction. The Hill reports that on Thursday, the United Kingdom updated its guidance for travel to the US, with the government warning its citizens to "comply with all entry, visa, and other...

Judge Who Ordered Halt to Flights Gives DOJ a Deadline

Judge James Boasberg wants more info by Tuesday

(Newser) - Relations certainly aren't warming between the Trump administration and US District Judge James Boasberg, who last Saturday ordered planes carrying deportees to El Salvador to be turned around and brought back to the US. The aircraft instead landed as scheduled , and on Thursday, Boasberg "edged closer" to holding...

Trump Offered Asylum, 67K White South Africans Jumped

Group finds tens of thousands are interested in coming to US as refugees

(Newser) - South Africa has been in President Trump's crosshairs over the past few months, with Trump accusing the African nation's government of confiscating land from white farmers—a claim that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa denies. Trump issued an executive order in February that cut aid to South Africa...

Georgetown Researcher Is Fighting Deportation

Scholar married to Palestinian-American is involved in case similar to that of Mahmoud Khalil

(Newser) - Badar Khan Suri, a researcher at Georgetown University and husband of a Palestinian-American woman, was detained by US immigration agents this week. Arrested Monday night outside his Virginia home, the Indian citizen was told his visa had been revoked. He's now being held in Louisiana, more than 1,000...

Pentagon Will Brief Musk on Plan for Hypothetical War: Report

Elon Musk set to be briefed on the plan for a potential US-China war, sources say

(Newser) - Two US officials tell the New York Times that Elon Musk will be at the Pentagon Friday, getting briefed on the US military's plan for a hypothetical war with China. A third official confirmed a China-focused briefing is happening, and a fourth confirmed Musk will be at the Pentagon...

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