U.S. to withdraw from coalition investigating Russian war crimes, scaling back war crime prosecutions.
Pentagon deploys USS Gravely, a guided missile destroyer, to southern border—bringing heavy firepower into Coast Guard territory.
Protesters rally at 80 Tesla showrooms over Musk’s Trump ties as Sen. Mark Kelly publicly dumps his Tesla.
Trump targets third law firm, Paul Weiss, in executive order after court halts restrictions on others.
Trump moves to revoke protections for two California national monuments established by Biden, targeting safeguards for sacred Indigenous lands.
Attorneys release video of plainclothes agents arresting activist Mahmoud Khalil; agents refuse to identify themselves.
Trump invokes 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act for mass deportations; judge orders two planes mid-flight to turn back.
Angry constituents booed and confronted NC GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards at an Asheville town hall before police removed a man and later escorted Edwards out.
Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney, sworn in today, declared, “We will never, ever, in any way, shape, or form, be part of the United States.”
Oklahoma’s GOP-led education board approved social studies standards directing high school students to question the 2020 election, with language secretly added by Republican Supt. Ryan Walters before the vote.
A second Columbia University student who joined campus protests was arrested for overstaying her student visa.
Trump signed an order dismantling seven more federal agencies, including Voice of America’s parent and others handling homelessness and minority business development.
Interim Kennedy Center director Richard Grenell wrote to staff after JD Vance and his wife were booed for over 30 seconds at a performance, saying intolerance toward political differences is the same as any other intolerance.
Trump said he would stop the multi-year FBI headquarters move to MD because “it’s a liberal state,” claiming the location—just 14 miles away—was “three hours away.”
Arlington National Cemetery removed references to Black, Hispanic, and female service members from its website as part of a broader Defense Dept effort to eliminate DEI content.
The Education Dept announced more than 40 universities are now under investigation for allegedly excluding white and Asian American students.
A federal judge ruled Friday against immigration advocates trying to block Trump’s Guantanamo Bay migrant transfers.
Trump vowed to “expose” enemies and called for jailing perceived opponents in a rare Justice Department speech.
Greenland’s five political parties issued a joint statement rejecting Trump’s push to control or annex their country.
Six GOP congressmen introduced a bill to bar Chinese nationals from U.S. student visas and exchange programs.
Rubio expels black-led South African government’s Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool via X post, calling him a “race-baiting politician.”
A three-judge appeals panel lifted the block on Trump’s orders to end government support for DEI programs.
Nearly 100 protesters were arrested after hundreds occupied Trump Tower’s lobby, demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil.
Trump claimed today that the U.S. will annex Greenland while meeting with NATO Sec-Gen Mark Rutte, prompting a Danish lawmaker to warn it would mean war between NATO allies.
The Pentagon has been directed to draft plans for increasing U.S. military presence in Panama to support Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal.
The top lawyer at the IRS is being demoted and replaced with a Trump ally who supports Musk’s DOGE unit.
Representatives of Trump’s family discussed taking a financial stake in Binance US, while its founder sought a pardon from Trump.
The union representing 47,000 TSA workers sued Homeland Security to block the administration from canceling its collective bargaining agreement.
Trump plans to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as early as Friday to allow the government to summarily arrest, detain, and deport non-citizens aged 14 and older.
The White House told Columbia it must overhaul discipline and admissions policies over its alleged failure to protect Jewish students before restoring $400M in canceled grants and contracts.
A whistleblower report to the GSA IG alleges that real estate developer Brad Ehikian, brother of the GSA head, asked the government to sell his firm a Silicon Valley property for tens of millions below its valuation.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, asked the DOJ Inspector General to investigate interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Ed Martin.
Johns Hopkins Univ. has begun laying off more than 2,000 workers after the WH cut USAID funding for programs it administers.
The WH withdrew its CDC nominee, former FL Rep. and physician Dave Weldon, who supports the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism and other conditions.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting sued FEMA for halting $40M in emergency alert system upgrades, saying it endangers real-time disaster warnings.
Two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of workers fired Feb. 13-14. One also demanded a full employee list and reinstatement status of each in 7 days.
The WH filed an emergency Supreme Court request to begin denying citizenship to U.S.-born children of undocumented parents born after Feb. 19.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy signed a deal with Musk’s DOGE and GSA to cut costs, including potentially eliminating the Postal Regulatory Commission, which has warned of nationwide mail delays.
A NY Indivisible chapter meeting saw nearly three times the expected turnout this week—a glimpse of the power of local organizing in 2025. Read about that and more in Micah Sifry’s smart “The Defiance This Time.”
A Trump executive order will require Canadians staying in the U.S. for more than 30 days to register with immigration authorities beginning April 11.
