A Columbian University student who is a legal permanent resident of the US and has been in the country most of her life is facing deportation after participating in pro-Palestinian protests.
Yunseo Chung, who is 21 years old and is a junior at Columbia, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration. The administration is arguing that her presence in the United States hinders the administration’s foreign policy agenda of halting the spread of antisemitism.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to block ruling on rehiring fired workers — 9:07 p.m.
New York Times
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block a ruling from a federal judge in California ordering it to rehire thousands of fired federal workers who had been on probationary status.
The emergency application is one of several that appear to be headed to the Supreme Court, a reflection of the scores of lower court rulings that halted administration initiatives. President Trump has denounced the lower court resistance and has called for the Supreme Court to intervene.
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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resigns amid proposed changes from Trump and Musk — 8:47 p.m.
Associated Press
The head of the beleaguered U.S. Postal Service, Louis DeJoy, resigned Monday after nearly five years in the position, leaving as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have floated the idea of privatizing mail service.
DeJoy had said last month he planned to step down but hadn’t set a date. He leaves an agency with an uncertain future. Trump has said he is considering putting USPS under the control of the Commerce Department in an attempt to stop losses at the $78 billion-a-year agency, which has operated as an independent entity since 1970. It has struggled at times to balance the books with the decline of first-class mail.
Judge maintains block on deportations of Venezuelans under wartime law — 8:03 p.m.
New York Times
A federal judge on Monday kept in place his ruling barring the Trump administration from using a powerful wartime statute to summarily deport Venezuelan migrants it deemed to be members of a violent street gang.
In a 37-page order, the judge, James Boasberg, said the block should remain in place so that the migrants could have the opportunity to challenge accusations that they belong to the gang, Tren de Aragua, before being flown out of the country to a prison in El Salvador under the wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act.
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Later Monday, a federal appeals court in Washington held a nearly two-hour hearing on the administration’s request to nullify Boasberg’s order, taking up many of the same issues.
The three-judge panel did not issue an immediate ruling. But during questioning, a Justice Department lawyer acknowledged that if the court were to reverse Boasberg, the administration could immediately resume transferring people to the Salvadoran prison.
From the moment Boasberg entered his initial order on March 15, President Trump and his allies have accused him of overstepping his authority by intruding on the president’s prerogative to conduct foreign affairs. But the question at the heart of the case turns equally on the issue of whether Trump himself overstepped by ignoring limits set out in the text of the act and in the Constitution for when and how wartime deportations can take place.
Greenland’s leader laments ‘mess’ as US vice president’s wife to visit island coveted by Trump — 7:39 p.m.
Associated Press
Greenland’s people are bracing for another visit from President Trump’s inner circle, with second lady Usha Vance set to travel to the autonomous Danish territory this week as her husband ratchets up talk about US security and “territorial” interests in the vast Arctic island coveted by the administration.
Greenland’s prime minister has warned of “American aggression” and lamented a “mess” caused by the upcoming visit from Vance, who will be joined by Trump’s national security adviser and energy secretary. On Sunday, Vice President JD Vance — her husband — blasted Denmark for “not doing its job” and “not being a good ally.”
“So you have to ask yourself: How are we going to solve that problem, solve our own national security?” JD Vance said on Fox News. “If that means that we need to take more territorial interest in Greenland, that is what President Trump is going to do, because he doesn’t care about what the Europeans scream at us.”
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Columbia student hunted by ICE sues to prevent deportation — 7:06 p.m.
New York Times
A 21-year-old Columbia University student who has lived in the United States since she was a child sued President Trump and other high-ranking administration officials on Monday, after immigration officials tried to arrest and deport her.
The student, Yunseo Chung, is a legal permanent resident and junior who has participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the school. The Trump administration is arguing that her presence in the United States hinders the administration’s foreign policy agenda of halting the spread of antisemitism.
Administration officials, including the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, cited the same rationale in explaining the arrest this month of Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate of the university and permanent resident who is being held in Louisiana.
Chair of Senate committee overseeing the military says senators will look into Signal leak — 6:23 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Senator Roger Wicker, the Mississippi Republican who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters, “We’re very concerned about it and we’ll be looking into it on a bipartisan basis.”
Senate Democrats have been calling for an investigation into a report in The Atlantic that Trump’s top advisers texted plans for military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in the secure messaging app Signal that included the magazine’s editor-in-chief.
Some Republicans have been critical of the episode Monday, but had mostly stopped short of calling for an investigation or congressional hearings.
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Wave of cancellations hits research grants focused on LGBTQ+ health — 6:01 p.m.
By the Associated Press
A surge of grant cancellations hit researchers focused on the health of gay, lesbian and transgender people last week, as the Trump administration continues to target what it describes as ideologically driven science.
Last week, the US government terminated at least 68 grants totaling nearly $40 million when awarded to 46 institutions, according to a government website.
Most were in some way related to sexual minorities, including research focused on HIV prevention. Others centered on cancer, youth suicide and bone health.
Termination letters gave as reasons that the research was “unscientific” or did “nothing to enhance the health of many Americans.”
Hillary Clinton responds to war plans leak — 5:59 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a six-word response to news that Trump administration officials had accidentally texted a war plan to a journalist in a group chat.
“You have got to be kidding me,” Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, wrote on X.
The response was notable given Clinton faced scrutiny — and an FBI investigation — over her own handling of sensitive information. The FBI and Justice Department investigated her as she ran for president over whether she had illegally communicated classified information to colleagues through a private email server that she used as secretary of state in the Obama administration.
Then-FBI Director James Comey recommended against criminal charges, but the issue nonetheless dogged her throughout her campaign and her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, made it a central point of attack.
👀 You have got to be kidding me.https://t.co/IhhvFvw6DG pic.twitter.com/bnNG4dGSpI
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 24, 2025
Trump’s portrait to be taken down at Colorado Capitol after president claimed it was ‘distorted’ — 4:59 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Colorado officials say a portrait of Trump hanging at in the state’s Capitol will be taken down after Trump claimed it was “purposefully distorted.”
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House Democrats said in a statement Monday that the oil painting would be taken down at the request of Republican leaders in the Legislature.
“If the GOP wants to spend time and money on which portrait of Trump hangs in the Capitol, then that’s up to them,” the Democrats said.
The portrait was painted during Trump’s first term and unveiled in 2019. Colorado Republicans raised more than $10,000 to commission it.
In a Sunday night post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he would prefer no picture at all over that one.
Alaska House passes resolution affirming state’s relationship with Canada — 4:31 p.m.
By the Associated Press
The resolution, which follows Trump imposing tariffs on Canada, notes the ties the state has with the bordering nation.
Some Alaska legislators relocating to the capital city of Juneau for session annually must cross the border into Canada — and drives hundreds of miles — due to the unique geography before reentering the US.
The resolution states it opposes “restrictive trade measures that would harm the unique relationship between Canada and Alaska or negatively affect our integrated economies.” It also expressed concerns about possible retaliatory steps Canadian governments could take that might disrupt travel across the shared border.
A similar measure is pending in the state Senate.
Trump holds celebration marking Greek Independence Day in White House — 4:19 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Trump began the event by acknowledging Greek-American lawmakers and members of his administration. He signed a proclamation that celebrates Tuesday as Greek Independence Day.
“That’s a great thing we’re doing,” Trump said.
He also invited to the stage Kimberly Guilfoyle, his pick to be US ambassador to Greece, saying: “She represents Greek culture very well.”
Judge hears request to pause decision hastening end of temporary deportation protections — 4:16 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Immigrant rights advocates asked a federal judge in San Francisco on Monday to postpone a Trump administration decision that hastens the end of temporary legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians in the US.
About 350,000 Venezuelans authorized to work and live in the US are set to have their Temporary Protected Status expire on April 7 under a decision by Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem.
Noem has also announced the end of TPS for 500,000 Haitians on Aug. 3 and another 250,000 Venezuelans on Sept. 10.
TPS, as the 1990s law is known, provides work authorization and rights to live in the United States in 18-month increments if the Homeland Security secretary deems conditions in their home countries are unsafe for return.
Lawyers for the National TPS Alliance said in court Wednesday that Noem had no authority to cancel lawful protections extended by the previous secretary. They also said Noem was motivated in part by racism.
Government attorneys for Noem said Congress gave the secretary clear authority to make determinations related to the TPS program and that it was not subject to judicial review.
Schumer calls for investigation into report of Trump officials’ war plan group chat — 4:02 p.m.
By the Associated Press
“This is one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time,” Schumer, the Senate Democratic Leader, said in a floor speech Monday afternoon.
He called on Republicans, who hold majority power in the Senate, to join him in launching a congressional investigation into the security breach.
Earlier Monday, The Atlantic reported that top national security officials for Trump had texted each other war plans for military strikes in Yemen on a secure messaging app and included a journalist in the chat.
Appellate panel weighs push to lift order blocking deportation of Venezuelan migrants — 3:59 p.m.
By the Associated Press
A panel of appeals court judges appeared divided Monday on a Trump administration push to lift an order blocking the 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 Court Judge Patricia Millett said Nazis detained in the US during World World II received better legal treatment than Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador this month under the statute.
“We certainly dispute the Nazi analogy,” Justice Department attorney Drew Ensign responded during a hearing of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Millett is one of three appellate judges who will decide whether to lift a March 15 order temporarily prohibiting deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
A second judge appeared open to the administration’s argument that the migrants should be challenging their detention in Texas rather than the nation’s capital. The third judge on the panel didn’t ask any questions.
Siblings of researcher believed kidnapped in Iraq call for her release — 3:46 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli researcher, disappeared in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, in March 2023 while doing research for her doctorate at Princeton University.
No group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping. But Israel believes she is being held by Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia that it says also has ties to the Iraqi government.
Relatives of Tsurkov, including her sister Emma and brother David, gathered with allies outside the Iraqi embassy on Monday to demand that their sister be released and brought home.
Emma Tsurkov said she hoped her small rally would not become a “routine event” and that any return visit to Washington would be a “thank you tour” for everyone who helped to bring her sister home.
She also called on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to designate Iraq as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Acting CDC director Susan Monarez tapped as new nominee for agency, White House official says — 3:30 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Trump will nominate Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC’s acting director, to the job, a White House official confirmed on Monday.
Trump abruptly withdrew the nomination of his first pick earlier this month.
Monarez has been serving as the CDC’s acting director since January. She came from an outside federal government agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.
The White House withdrew the nomination of David Weldon, a former Florida congressman, to lead the CDC. Weldon told the media his nomination was withdrawn because “there were not enough votes to get me confirmed.”
Weldon was closely aligned with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the US health secretary who for years has been one of the nation’s leading anti-vaccine activists.
Rubio heads to the Caribbean this week — 3:25 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel this week to three Caribbean nations for talks on ending illegal immigration, fighting crime and restoring stability to Haiti.
The State Department says Rubio will visit Jamaica, Guyana and Suriname beginning on Wednesday, in what will be his second overseas trip to Latin America and the Caribbean since taking office.
In Kingston, Rubio plans to meet Jamaican officials along with the leaders of Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti.
He will then visit Georgetown and Paramaribo for talks with Guyanese and Surinamese officials before returning home.
Top House and Senate lawmakers react to report in The Atlantic — 3:21 p.m.
By the Associated Press
- “If true, this story represents one of the most egregious failures of operational security and common sense I have ever seen,” said Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, in a statement. He said American lives are “on the line. The carelessness shown by President Trump’s cabinet is stunning and dangerous. I will be seeking answers from the Administration immediately.”
- Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement he was “horrified” by the reports. Himes said if a lower-ranking official “did what is described here, they would likely lose their clearance and be subject to criminal investigation. The American people deserve answers,” which he said he planned to get at Wednesday’s previously scheduled committee hearing.
- Senator Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran, said on social media that Pete Hegseth, “the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in history, is demonstrating his incompetence by literally leaking classified war plans in the group chat.”Duckworth said, “Hegseth and Trump are making our country less safe.”
Federal judge issues temporary ban on removal of 2 transgender men from US Air Force — 3:13 p.m.
By the Associated Press
US District Judge Christine O’Hearn after a hearing Monday says the pair have shown their separation would cause lasting damage to their careers and reputations.
The ruling follows a similar one last week that blocked enforcement of Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from the military.
O’Hearn found Master Sgt. Logan Ireland and Staff Sgt. Nicholas Bear Bade are likely to prevail on equal protection grounds by showing they have been singled out due to their sex and the administration cannot justify the differential treatment.
“The loss of military service under the stigma of a policy that targets gender identity is not merely a loss of employment; it is a profound disruption of personal dignity, medical continuity, and public service,” O’Hearn, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, wrote in an order granting a 14-day restraining order.
Both men have been put on administrative leave — Ireland from a training program at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey, and Bade from a deployment in Kuwait, the order said.
Trump says US officials’ Greenland visit isn’t provocation, but ‘friendliness’ — 3:08 p.m.
By the Associated Press
During a meeting of his Cabinet on Monday, Trump repeated his assertions the US could come to control Greenland, saying, “I think Greenland’s going to be something that maybe is in our future.”
He called US control of the island that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark important for national security.
Trump also suggested that Secretary of State Marco Rubio could be going soon to Greenland, and that people there were asking US officials to go, including “some officials.”
Trump says he knows ‘nothing’ about story in The Atlantic — 3:07 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Trump was asked about The Atlantic story by reporters as he met with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Louisiana’s Gov. Jeff Landry at the White House.
The president said he knew “nothing” about it.
“I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of the Atlantic. To me, it’s a magazine that’s going out of business. It’s not much of a magazine but I know nothing about it,” Trump said.
Trump then asked a reporter for more information about the general details of the story, and after being told the chat involved discussion of the strikes on the Houthis, he said, “Well, it couldn’t have been very effective because the attack was very effective. I can tell you that.”
Trump officials text war plans to media via Signal group chat app — 3:01 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Top national security officials for President Trump, including his defense secretary, texted war plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in a secure messaging app that included the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, the magazine reported in a story posted online Monday.
The National Security Council said the text chain “appears to be authentic.”
The material in the text chain “contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Iran-backed Houthi-rebels in Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the US would be deploying, and attack sequencing,” editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported.
Trump hails steel investment — 2:54 p.m.
By the Associated Press
President Trump is holding a White House event with elected leaders from Louisiana to promote a $5.8 billion steel production facility coming to the state.
Automaker Hyundai is pursuing the project.
The president says his threat of tariffs is leading companies to move production into the country.
“Cars are coming into this country at levels never seen before. Get ready,” he says.
Trump’s border czar says he came to Mass. to oversee ICE arrests — 1:54 p.m.
By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff
Federal immigration officials said Monday that they arrested 370 people living in the US illegally during recent operations in Massachusetts that focused on “transnational organized crime, gangs, and egregious illegal alien offenders.”
“ICE had to find and arrest these illegal alien rapists because Massachusetts and Boston are sanctuaries that refuse to cooperate with ICE,” Tom Homan, the Trump administration’s “border czar,” wrote on X. “They would rather release these animals back into the community rather than honor ICE detainers or notify ICE when they are scheduled to be released.”
I made a promise at CPAC that I was going to Boston after reading about numerous illegal alien child rapists walking the streets of Boston and Massachusetts. ICE had to find and arrest these illegal alien rapists because Massachusetts and Boston are sanctuaries that refuse to…
— Thomas D. Homan (@RealTomHoman) March 24, 2025
Homan said those arrested between March 18 and Sunday included six “foreign fugitives, including four who were wanted for murder or to serve a criminal sentence for murder, along with drug traffickers, child sexual predators, and numerous other violent public safety threats.”
Trump says territorial lines and nuclear plant discussed in Russia-Ukraine limited cease-fire talks — 1:45 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Ukrainian and Russian officials are taking part in the indirect talks in Saudi Arabia, and Trump said he believes both sides ultimately want the conflict settled.
Trump last week floated the idea of the US taking control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. The six-reactor plant was seized by Russia early in the war. He spotlighted the idea once again on Monday during an exchange with reporters at the White House.
“Some people are saying the United States should own the power plant — work it that way because we have the expertise” to get the plant operating, Trump said. “Something like that would be fine with me.”
Iran condemns US threats to use force and vows it will defend its sovereignty — 1:39 p.m.
By the Associated Press
The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, in a letter to the U.N. Security Council, referred to “baseless accusations” and threats by senior US administration officials and Trump against Iran while trying to justify what he said were unlawful attacks against Yemen.
Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani warned that “any act of aggression will have severe consequences, for which the United States will bear full responsibility.”
He said Iran will “resolutely defend its sovereignty, territorial integrity and national interests under international law against any hostile action.”
The US has launched a series of airstrikes against strongholds of Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who have disrupted international maritime trade by targeting ships in the Red Sea.
Iravani said in the letter that Iran “supports maritime safety and freedom of navigation,” and emphasized that the Houthis “operate independently in their decision-making and actions.”
He urged the Security Council to speak out against the US “blatant provocations.”
But since the US has veto power in the council, there is no chance of that happening.
Homeland Security chief to visit El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are being held — 1:27 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Officials said Monday that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s prison visit is part of a three-day trip. It starts Wednesday with the visit to the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, and Noem will also meet with President Nayib Bukele, according to a Homeland Security statement.
The Venezuelans were deported this month after Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The administration says they are gang members but hasn’t identified who was deported or given evidence of gang affiliation.
Some 250 immigrants from the U.S., who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, are being held.
Noem will then visit Colombia and Mexico.
Cabinet meeting wraps up — 1:13 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Trump and Cabinet officials spent nearly an hour talking about their accomplishments and answering questions from journalists at the White House. Elon Musk was also there.
For the president, these have been opportunities to highlight his administration’s progress on his agenda, such as ramping up deportations and reducing the federal workforce.
They’re also a showcase for Musk’s influence. Near the end of Monday’s meeting, Trump praised the billionaire entrepreneur as “a patriot” who is selflessly serving his country.
“Elon has never asked me for a thing,” he said.
Trump presses Federal Reserve to reduce interest rates — 12:57 p.m.
By the Associated Press
“I’d like to see the Fed lower interest rates. That’s just my opinion,” he said during a Cabinet meeting.
Trump has routinely ignored the tradition of presidents declining to comment on decision-making by the Federal Reserve, which operates independently.
Dozens rally outside Education Department building to support dismissed workers — 12:45 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Cars honked as they passed and supporters stood in the rain clapping, cheering and holding signs saying, “Thank you for your service” and “Your work matters.”
Among the supporters was Josie Skinner, a lawyer who worked on programs to support homeless children and ensure equitable services for children in private schools before she was fired from the department herself. She rejected President Trump’s suggestion that the dismissed employees did not work hard.
“All of them could have made a lot of money in the private sector but chose to do this work because we cared about education, we cared about serving our country,” she said.
Trump plans to finish federal workforce overhaul in a few months — 12:35 p.m.
By the Associated Press
Trump said at a Cabinet meeting that he expects to finish his overhaul of the federal workforce in two to three months.
His administration has been working to downsize the number of employees through financial incentives and layoffs.
“We’re getting rid of the fat,” Trump said.
The Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management are in the process of reviewing agencies’ plans for large-scale reductions in force.
School district leads lawsuit over dismantling of Education Department — 12:00 p.m.
By Mandy McLaren, Globe Staff
Massachusetts school districts are joining educator unions in suing the Trump administration over its efforts to dismantle the US Department of Education.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleges the administration’s actions are unlawful and will decimate crucial services for millions of students.
The lawsuit was filed by Democracy Forward, a left-leaning Washington, D.C.,-based legal organization. Easthampton and Somerville public school districts, as well as the American Federation of Teachers, its Massachusetts affiliate, and other unions, are listed as plaintiffs.
The legal challenge comes in the wake of mass layoffs at the department, which, along with some voluntary departures, resulted earlier this month in roughly 2,000 workers suddenly leaving the Cabinet-level agency. It also follows last week’s executive order in which Trump directed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to pursue a speedy closure of the department.
Trump says countries that buy Venezuelan oil will face 25 percent tariff — 11:45 a.m.
By the Associated Press
In a Truth Social post, Trump said Venezuela has been “very hostile” to the US and countries purchasing oil from the South American country will be forced to pay the tariff on all their trade to the US starting April 2.
Venezuela will face a “Secondary” tariff because it is the home to the gang Tren de Aragua, he said. The Trump administration is deporting immigrants that it claims are members of the gang who illegally crossed into the United States.
Trump said his social media post would serve as notification of the policy to the Department of Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies.
Trump names his former defense lawyer to be interim US attorney for New Jersey — 11:05 a.m.
By the Associated Press
Former defense attorney and White House counselor Alina Habba is a New Jersey native who’ll succeed John Giordano as interim US attorney in the state where the president has several golf clubs.
Giordano is being nominated ambassador to Namibia, the president said.
Habba has been a rising star in Trump’s orbit after representing him in various legal matters over the past few years. A partner at a small New Jersey law firm near Trump’s Bedminster golf course, Habba served as a senior adviser for his political action committee, defended him in court in several lawsuits and acted as a spokesperson last year as he volleyed between courtrooms and the campaign trail.
Judge won’t toss order blocking Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan immigrants — 10:45 a.m.
By the Associated Press
US District Judge James Boasberg issued his latest ruling only hours before an appeals court is scheduled to hear the case.
Boasberg’s order says the immigrants facing deportation must get an opportunity to challenge their designations as alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang. He said there is “a strong public interest in preventing the mistaken deportation of people based on categories they have no right to challenge.”
“The public also has a significant stake in the Government’s compliance with the law,” the judge wrote.
Boasberg didn’t immediately decide what form a challenge should take.
On Monday afternoon, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is scheduled to hear attorneys’ arguments in the case. President Trump’s administration appealed after Boasberg agreed on March 15 to temporarily bar the deportations and ordered planes to return to the US.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt judge’s order to rehire probationary federal workers — 10:29 a.m.
By the Associated Press
In an emergency appeal filed Monday, the administration argued the ruling should be put on hold because the judge didn’t have the authority to order some 16,000 probationary employees to be hired back.
The order came from US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco, who found the firings didn’t follow federal law and required immediate offers of reinstatement be sent.
The agencies include the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the Interior and the Treasury.
Judge blocks DOGE from accessing personal data at US agencies — 10:25 a.m.
By the Associated Press
US District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a preliminary injunction Monday morning in a case filed in a Maryland federal court last month by a coalition of labor unions.
The lawsuit, led by the American Federation of Teachers, alleges the Trump administration violated federal privacy laws when it gave Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to systems with the personal information of tens of millions of Americans without their consent.
Boardman had previously issued a temporary restraining order. The preliminary injunction offers longer-term relief blocking DOGE access at the Education Department, the Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Management as the case plays out.
The judge found the Trump administration likely violated privacy laws. She said the government failed to adequately explain why DOGE needed access to “millions of records” to perform their job duties.
She said the administration can still carry out the president’s agenda without receiving unfettered access to a trove of personal data on federal employees and people with student loans and government benefits.
That includes their income and asset information, Social Security numbers, birth dates, home addresses and marital and citizenship status.
Trump to hold Cabinet meeting with Musk — 10:24 a.m.
By the Associated Press
The president is convening a meeting with top administration officials on Monday morning, according to the White House.
Elon Musk, who is leading efforts to downsize and overhaul the federal government, will be there.
The last time Musk attended such a meeting, there were reports of clashes between him and Cabinet officials, particularly Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Trump moved swiftly afterward to tamp down questions about disharmony within his administration.
Trump’s national security adviser, energy secretary also to visit Greenland — 10:20 a.m.
By the Associated Press
The White House has confirmed White House national security adviser Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright are headed to Greenland in the coming days to visit with US troops at Pituffik Space Base and attend a dogsled race.
The visit comes as Trump has repeatedly raised the idea of the US taking control of the self-governing, mineral-rich territory of NATO ally Denmark.
“The US has a vested security interest in the Arctic region and it should not be a surprise the National Security Advisor and Secretary of Energy are visiting a US Space Base to get first-hand briefings from our service members on the ground,” White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said in a statement. “We also look forward to experiencing Greenland’s famous hospitality and are confident that this visit presents an opportunity to build on partnerships that respects Greenland’s self determination and advances economic cooperation.”
Waltz and Wright will be joining second lady Usha Vance for the trip. The White House announced Vance’s travel to Greenland on Sunday.
Trump and Louisiana’s governor to celebrate new $5B steel plant, White House says — 9:51 a.m.
By the Associated Press
The plant is part of an overall $20 billion investment by Hyundai, the Korean automaker.
“More investments, more jobs, and more money in the pockets of hardworking Americans — all thanks to President Trump’s economic policies,” wrote White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on social media.
Trump questions impartiality of judge who blocked plans to deport Venezuelan immigrants — 9:50 a.m.
By the Associated Press
Just after midnight, the president posted a social media message calling for Chief Judge James Boasberg to be disbarred. Trump reposted an article about Boasberg’s attendance at a conference that purportedly featured “anti-Trump speakers.”
The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador under an 18th-century wartime law that hadn’t been invoked since World War II. Flights already were in the air on March 15 when Boasberg agreed to temporarily bar the deportations and ordered planes to return to the US.
The administration appealed the order.
On Monday afternoon, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is scheduled to hear attorneys’ arguments.
GAO to review Trump administration’s workforce reductions — 9:33 a.m.
By the Associated Press
The Government Accountability Office confirmed the review in a letter sent to US Senator Elizabeth Warren.
The Massachusetts Democrat, whose office provided the letter to The Associated Press, had requested a review of how many workers were fired, how many were rehired under judicial orders this month and how each agency’s functions were impacted by the workforce cuts.
Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has fired thousands of workers across the federal government.
Federal judges this month ordered the Trump administration to rehire probationary workers for now. The White House had defended the president’s power to hire and fire employees.
Military veterans are becoming the face of Trump’s government cuts and Democrats’ resistance — 9:10 a.m.
By the Associated Press
As congressional lawmakers scramble to respond to President Trump’s slashing of the federal government, one group is already taking a front and center role: military veterans.
From layoffs at the Department of Veterans Affairs to a Pentagon purge of archives that documented diversity in the military, veterans have been acutely affected by Trump’s actions. And with the Republican president determined to continue slashing the federal government, the burden will only grow on veterans, who make up roughly 30 percent of the federal workforce and often tap government benefits they earned with their military service.
“At a moment of crisis for all of our veterans, the VA’s system of health care and benefits has been disastrously and disgracefully put on the chopping block by the Trump administration,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the top Democrat on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, at a news conference last week.
Trump’s schedule for Monday — 8:41 a.m.
By the Associated Press
The president and the Governor of Louisiana are planning to deliver remarks in the Roosevelt Room this afternoon, according to the White House. Later, Trump will participate in a Greek Independence Day Celebration.
2 months into Trump’s second administration, the news industry faces challenges from all directions — 8:01 a.m.
By the Associated Press
During the first Trump administration, the biggest concern for many journalists was labels. Would they, or their news outlet, be called “fake news” or an “enemy of the people” by a president and his supporters?
They now face a more assertive Trump. In two months, a blitz of action by the nation’s new administration — Trump, chapter two — has journalists on their heels.
Lawsuits. A newly aggressive Federal Communications Commission. An effort to control the press corps that covers the president, prompting legal action by The Associated Press. A gutted Voice of America. Public data stripped from websites. And attacks, amplified anew.
“It’s very clear what’s happening. The Trump administration is on a campaign to do everything it can to diminish and obstruct journalism in the United States,” said Bill Grueskin, a journalism professor at Columbia University.
“It’s really nothing like we saw in 2017,” he said. “Not that there weren’t efforts to discredit the press, and not that there weren’t things that the press did to discredit themselves.”
Security is enhanced in Greenland as US vice president’s wife plans visit to island coveted by Trump — 7:53 a.m.
By the Associated Press
Danish police have sent extra personnel and sniffer dogs to Greenland as the mineral-rich island steps up security measures ahead of a planned visit this week by US second lady Usha Vance, which has stirred new concerns about the Trump administration’s interest in the autonomous Danish territory.
Greenland’s prime minister lamented a “mess” caused by the visit from Vance, who reportedly will be accompanied by Trump’s national security adviser.
The visit — in which Vance plans to learn more about Greenland’s cultural heritage and see a national dogsled race — comes against the backdrop of US President Trump ‘s ambition for the United States to seize control of Greenland.
Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers — 7:43 a.m.
By the Associated Press
As President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk work to overhaul the federal government, they’re forcing out thousands of workers with insider knowledge and connections who now need a job.
For Russia, China and other adversaries, the upheaval in Washington as Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency guts government agencies presents an unprecedented opportunity to recruit informants, national security and intelligence experts say.
Every former federal worker with knowledge of or access to sensitive information or systems could be a target. When thousands of them leave their jobs at the same time, that creates a lot of targets, as well as a counterespionage challenge for the United States.
“This information is highly valuable, and it shouldn’t be surprising that Russia and China and other organizations — criminal syndicates for instance — would be aggressively recruiting government employees,” said Theresa Payton, a former White House chief information officer under President George W. Bush, who now runs her own cybersecurity firm.
Danish police fly extra forces to Greenland ahead of second lady Usha Vance’s visit — 5:15 a.m.
By the Associated Press
Danish police sent extra personnel and sniffer dogs to Greenland as the icy island steps up security measures ahead of a planned visit this week by Second Lady Usha Vance, the chief spokesman for Denmark’s national police said.
René Gyldensten said Monday the extra officers, deployed the day before, were part of regular steps taken during visits by dignitaries to Greenland, a self-governing, mineral-rich territory of American ally Denmark.
US and Russian negotiators launch cease-fire talks in Saudi Arabia — 4:21 a.m.
By the Associated Press
US and Russian negotiators on Monday sat down for talks in Saudi Arabia on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine, hours after a round of negotiations between US and Ukrainian negotiators, Russian news reports said.
The state Tass and RIA-Novosti news agencies said the negotiations began in Riyadh. The meeting is expected to be followed by another contact between US and Ukrainian teams.
The separate meetings are set to discuss details of a pause in long-range attacks against energy facilities and civilian infrastructure and a halt on attacks in the Black Sea to ensure safe commercial shipping.
Second lady Usha Vance will visit Greenland as Trump talks up US takeover — 12:25 a.m.
By the Associated Press
Second lady Usha Vance plans a trip to Greenland, at a time when President Trump has suggested the United States should take control over the self-governing, mineral-rich territory of American ally Denmark.
Vance will leave on Thursday and return Saturday, according to her office. Vance and one of her three children will be part of a U.S. delegation that will “visit h
istoric sites” and “learn about Greenlandic heritage.”
Media outlets in Greenland and Denmark reported that Vance would be accompanied by Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz. The White House and the National Security Council did not immediately respond to requests for comment.