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A Department of Homeland Security official on Monday compared Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant whom the Trump administration admitted it deported in error, to Osama bin Laden.Speaking to Fox News, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said Monday that…

Next on Donald Trump’s deportation list: “homegrown” criminals.In a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele Monday, Trump praised Bukele’s willingness to imprison the more than 200 immigrants the United States deported to El Salvador, the…

An immigration attorney was surprised to receive a notice from the Department of Homeland Security instructing an immediate departure from the United States that was addressed to her—not one of her clients—especially considering the fact that she is a U.S.…

Despite a court order, Donald Trump is still refusing to allow journalists from the Associated Press into the White House press pool.On Monday, the AP was barred from the White House to cover Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s meeting with Trump, and issued…

An American university is finally standing up to Donald Trump’s egregious demands, amid a flurry of schools spinelessly bending to the president’s will in recent weeks.Harvard University announced Monday it will not comply with the White House’s demands…

On Friday, five more Big Law firms capitulated to President Donald Trump’s demands, committing to provide a total of $600 million in “pro bono” legal services to causes aligned with the president’s “conservative ideals.” All told, the world’s…

The Trump administration used a citizenship interview as a pretext to arrest a Columbia University student of Palestinian descent.Mohsen K. Mahdawi, a U.S. permanent resident who has lived in the country for 10 years, showed up to what he thought was his…

Donald Trump plans to send as many people as he can to megaprisons in El Salvador.In a press conference with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele Monday, Trump was asked how many “illegal criminals” he plans to export to El Salvador.“As many as possible,”…

Donald Trump doubled down Monday on his unconstitutional threat to deport U.S. citizens to foreign gulags.During a press conference with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who has already struck a $6 million deal to detain noncitizens the U.S. government…

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, is flippantly refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States after the Maryland resident was mistakenly deported.During a press conference with Donald Trump in the White House Monday, a reporter asked…

Donald Trump went back to blaming basics Monday to defend Russian President Vladimir Putin, less than a day after Russia’s deadliest attack on Ukraine this year: He’s blaming the leader of the country that got bombed—and Joe Biden!A Russian double-tap…

The Department of Homeland Security had no evidence linking a Tufts University international student to terrorism or antisemitism—but ICE agents kidnapped her anyway.A few days before Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish student attending Tufts University, was…

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick may have given up the game on Donald Trump’s tariffs, and members of the administration are seriously pissed. On Friday, the Trump administration announced that smartphones, computers, and other tech devices would be exempt…

The European Commission is issuing burner phones to officials traveling to the United States amid fears of espionage in Trump’s America.It’s the kind of security measure typically saved for trips to China or the Ukraine, where the fear of IT surveillance…

Donald Trump worked himself into a frenzy after watching CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday, calling for the network to be penalized in a Truth Social post. “They should lose their license! Hopefully, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as headed by its…

Bernie Sanders seemed genuinely impressed by the size of his Los Angeles rally this weekend. “Unbelievable!” he declared upon reaching the microphone, “There are people half a mile away!” Moments later, he claimed 36,000 people were gathered before…

Donald Trump’s administration has a new excuse for violating an order from the Supreme Court to return a man wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. In a seven-page filing Sunday, lawyers for the Department of Justice argued that the federal…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 14 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.President…

Seven years ago, Donald Trump for no good reason blew up the successful agreement the United States and its allies had negotiated with Iran. Now he is trying to fix it. Shockingly enough, and even if not for the right reasons, it just might work.In 2018,…

Among the most disturbing ideas floated by the Trump administration in recent weeks is the possibility that it will send U.S. citizens to be imprisoned by the Salvadoran government. Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Trump-friendly president, reportedly made the…

Donald Trump may have performed more pirouettes on tariffs last week than Rudolf Nureyev used to do during Act Three of Swan Lake, and he may have tanked the bond market and nearly set off a global recession. But don’t worry, America. He just made showering…

After President Trump raged for weeks at law firms he regards as personal enemies, a number of them just surrendered to him like falling dominoes. That Trump boasted about this on social media so conspicuously represents a dark turn: He’s warning anyone…

On April 10, Chief Justice John Roberts placed a case on the…

Gretchen Whitmer came to Washington this week and, in a high-profile appearance, took herself out of the running for the 2028 Democratic Party presidential nomination. Only, she probably doesn’t know she did that. (That’s OK, she just read it here first.)…

On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued a simple directive to the U.S. government. Or it would have been simple, anyway, if President Donald Trump weren’t engaged in such rampant lawlessness. The high court said the administration should be prepared to say…

Last week, an 8-year-old girl became the second child and the third person to die of measles in the current outbreak. But it was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, who dominated the news cycle.“The most effective way to…

Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil will not be returning home to his nine-months’ pregnant wife.Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Jamee Comans ruled Friday that Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident, can be deported out of the country. The…

Thanks to a technical glitch, Donald Trump’s tariffs haven’t even been collected at U.S. ports.On Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that an entry code in the U.S. system for American ships to use to have their freight exempted from…

While President Donald Trump threw the economy into mayhem this week with his tumultuous back-and-forth tariff scheme, plenty of chaos ensued in other realms.Here are five news stories you may have missed amid the tariff fiasco:1. The total number of…

The White House is trying to use semantics to dodge the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that it has to help return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States from El Salvador.At a press conference Friday, Newsmax’s Mike Carter asked press secretary…