Supreme courtroom to listen to arguments in problem to authorized protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants
The supreme courtroom will hear arguments in a case difficult authorized protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, after the federal government urged the justices to dam decrease courtroom rulings that prevented the Trump administration from ending Momentary Protected Standing (TPS) for each international locations.
A reminder that TPS offers reduction to individuals already within the US if their dwelling international locations expertise a pure catastrophe, armed battle or different extraordinary occasions. The Trump administration has sought to finish most enrollment in this system – and tried to strip the standing from a string of nations, together with Haiti, Syria, Somalia and Venezuela – saying it runs counter to US pursuits.
For now, the supreme courtroom has stored authorized protections in place for immigrants from Haiti and Syria, forward of oral arguments in April.
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Chris Stein
Donald Trump on Monday publicly revealed particulars a couple of Republican congressman’s “terminal” prognosis that might have left him “useless by June”, prompting Mike Johnson, speaker of the Home, to say: “That wasn’t public.”
Trump touched on Neal Dunn’s well being throughout a meandering press convention on the White Home held alongside leaders of the Kennedy Middle and different high Republicans, by which he additionally mentioned matters together with the performing arts venue’s upcoming renovation, the breast most cancers prognosis of Susan Wiles, his chief of workers, and the struggle with Iran.
His feedback concerning the 73-year-old Florida consultant got here as Republicans battle to take care of their majority within the Home of Representatives, which they management with only one seat, with three seats vacant.
The traditionally small majority has made well being scares and another occasion that may pressure a lawmaker to resign or retire a urgent concern for Republican leaders, forward of the November midterms by which Democrats are vying to take again the chamber.
“We had one man who was very ailing. It seemed like he wasn’t going to make it,” Trump mentioned as he sat beside Johnson.
With Trump’s urging, Johnson then started speaking about Dunn’s well being and the way the congressman determined to stay within the Home regardless of being given a “grim” outlook.
“If others received this prognosis, they might be apt to go dwelling and retire,” Johnson mentioned.
“What was the prognosis?” Trump requested.
“I believe it was a terminal prognosis,” Johnson replied.
“He can be useless by June,” Trump interjected, prompting the speaker to say: “OK, that wasn’t public, however yeah, OK. It was grim, that’s what I used to be going to say.”
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Melody Schreiber
The appointment of a controversial slate of vaccine advisers by Robert F Kennedy Jr possible violated federal regulation, and all votes taken by the committee over the previous yr have been stayed, a federal decide dominated on Monday.
The advisory committee on immunization practices (ACIP) isn’t capable of meet later this week, since its membership has been invalidated, the decide mentioned. The assembly has been postponed, an HHS official mentioned.
The unprecedented modifications to routine US immunization suggestions in January, when well being officers unilaterally modified one-third of the schedule, had been “arbitrary and capricious” and had been additionally blocked, the courtroom discovered.
Choose Brian E Murphy dominated on a lawsuit introduced by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) towards the US Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS).
“It is a main victory,” mentioned Richard Hughes IV, one of many legal professionals representing the AAP.
When Kennedy fired all 17 members of the ACIP in June and changed them along with his personal hand-picked advisers, a lot of whom have expressed anti-vaccine views, the well being secretary possible violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), the decide discovered.
For that cause, the 13 appointments had been stayed by the decide, basically invalidating their function on the committee.
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Gregory Bovino, border patrol commander who led lethal Minneapolis crackdown, plans to retire
Gregory Bovino, the US border patrol chief and frequent Fox Information visitor who was the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts till the killing of two protesters in Minneapolis by federal brokers, informed the New York Instances on Monday he’ll retire inside weeks.
Bovino, who personally led immigration raids in Los Angeles, Chicago and Charlotte, North Carolina final yr, usually trailed by authorities videographers creating social media content material, was reprimanded by a federal decide for mendacity to her when he claimed that he was struck by a rock throughout a confrontation with protesters in Chicago.
A picture of US border patrol chief Gregory Bovino was projected on Loews Hollywood Lodge in Los Angeles on Sunday, as a part of a protest towards the mass deportation marketing campaign he helped lead. {Photograph}: Mike Weekes/Reuters
After border patrol officers killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in January, Bovino, lied to reporters, saying that Pretti, who was filming a raid, had approached border patrol brokers with a gun.
“The brokers tried to disarm the person, however he violently resisted. Fearing for his life and the lives and security of fellow officers, a border patrol agent fired defensive pictures,” Bovino mentioned. “This seems to be like a scenario the place a person wished to do most injury and bloodbath regulation enforcement.”
Bovino was repeatedly caught making false and deceptive statements. He defended a serious immigration sweep in California in early 2025 by claiming brokers had a “predetermined checklist of targets”, many with prison data, however paperwork confirmed that 77 out of 78 individuals taken into custody in the course of the operation had no prior file with the company, a CalMatters investigation revealed.
Final June, whereas defending the arrest of a US citizen in a high-profile case, Bovino falsely claimed on social media that the person had been charged with assaulting an officer.
The border patrol commander was additionally a steadily belligerent and overtly partisan social media commentator, regardless of his nonpartisan function. In the course of the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, as an illustration, Bovino seconded a rightwing operative’s assault on the state’s governor, Tim Walz, in a social media put up that misspelled the names of two of the 4 Democratic governors he attacked. “Waltz [sic] is of the identical class as newsome [sic], stein, pritzker – gubners who select unlawful aliens over there [sic] personal residents. Wonderful incompetence,” Bovino wrote, referring to Gavin Newsom, Josh Stein and JB Pritzker, the governors of California, North Carolina and Illinois.
Newsom greeted stories of Bovino’s impending retirement with this parting shot to Bovino, delivered on social media: “Good riddance. You ruined lives. Unfold concern. And spewed hatred. When you’re remembered, will probably be because the smallest man who ever lived.”
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Gavin Newsom’s dyslexia means he’s ‘dumb’, says Trump
Donald Trump, who as soon as mocked the gestures of a New York Instances reporter with a congenital situation that limits his means to maneuver his joints, claimed on Monday that the governor of California’s dyslexia means that he’s “dumb”.
Talking to reporters within the Oval Workplace about his demand for a federal regulation to require voters to have photograph identification to be allowed to vote, the president made the fully fictional declare that “in California in case you ask an individual to point out their identification, they’ve the precise to place you in jail.”
Actually, whereas California did enact a regulation in 2024 that bars native governments within the state from requiring photograph ID from voters, and it could be an offense to dam voters from casting ballots until they produce ID on demand, the state does require a drivers license quantity, a California identification quantity, or the final 4 digits of a social safety quantity to register to vote.
Whereas the president forged the concept of an official asking a voter to supply ID on the polls as innocent, it could be a violation of state regulation.
Trump then urged, incorrectly, that Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, was chargeable for blocking legal guidelines requiring voters to have photograph ID – which have traditionally been used to disenfranchise voters with disabilities and Latino, Black, younger and low-income voters, who’re much less prone to have photograph IDs.
“That’s how loopy it’s gotten with a low IQ individual, ‘trigger Gavin Newscum [sic] has admitted that he’s a, that he has studying disabilities,” Trump mentioned. Truthfully, I’m all for individuals with studying disabilities however not for my president.”
“Gavin Newscum admitted that he has studying disabilities, dyslexia, uh, all the things about him is dumb,” Trump added.
The president then referred incorrectly to a remark Newsom made final month in an interview in Atlanta by which he described his dyslexia as a present, crediting the training incapacity for making him extra collaborative and empathic, but additionally mentioned that it had brought on him to attain poorly on standardized checks.
Trump claimed, falsely, that Newsom “seemed on the viewers and mentioned: ‘I’m smarter than you,’ or one thing like that. On high of all the things else I name him a racist as a result of it occurred to be a black viewers.”
Trump’s assault on Newsom was primarily based on a false account of what the governor mentioned when he was requested by Andre Dickens, Atlanta’s mayor, what he wished readers of his new memoir to take from his dialogue within the e-book of rising up with dyslexia.
At one level in his prolonged reply, Newsom mentioned that he wished readers to grasp that scuffling with studying difficulties had taught him humility. He then informed his imagined readers: “I’m not attempting to impress you. I’m simply attempting to impress upon you I’m such as you. I’m no higher than you.”
“I’m a 960 SAT man,” he added, in reference to his mixed rating on the school admissions check, which put him in fortieth percentile of test-takers. “I’m not attempting to offend anybody – attempting to behave all there in case you received 940,” he joked, turning the the viewers.
As a result of the Atlanta mayor who interviewed Newsom is Black, that small section of the video was clipped and shared on social media by the rightwing influencer like Benny Johnson, who added the inflammatory false caption: “Gavin Newsom says he pertains to black individuals as a result of he received a 960 on his SAT and ‘can’t learn’.”
After Trump mischaracterized Newsom’s feedback on social media final week, the governor replied: “I spoke about my dyslexia. I do know that’s laborious for a brain-dead moron who bombs youngsters and protects pedophiles to grasp.”
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Vance praises Trump’s intelligence to clarify help for struggle on Iran earlier than Trump claims Iran’s retaliation was ‘surprising’
JD Vance, the vice-president, was requested by a conservative reporter within the Oval Workplace on Monday how he squares his previous opposition to US wars within the Center East along with his help for the assault on Iran order by his boss, Donald Trump.
Vance first urged the reporter, Philip Wegmann of RealClearPolitics, who has impeccable conservative media credentials, as a former fellow on the conservative Steamboat Institute who has reported for rightwing publications just like the Federalist and the Each day Sign, was attempting to trigger bother.
“I do know what you’re attempting to do, Phil, you’re attempting to drive a wedge between … me and the president,” Vance mentioned, earlier than claiming that the central concern was that “Iran mustn’t have a nuclear weapon”.
Consultants have mentioned that Iran was not near having a nuclear weapon even final yr, when Trump ordered the bombing of suspected nuclear enrichment websites in Iran after which claimed that Iran’s nuclear program had been “obliterated”.
When Wegmann famous that Vance had beforehand been a critic of the worldwide struggle on terror, Vance mentioned that his opposition to earlier US wars within the Center East was that they’d been badly managed by earlier US presidents.
“One massive distinction, Phil, is that we’ve got a sensible president, whereas previously, we had dumb presidents,” Vance mentioned.
“I belief President Trump to get the job performed, to do a very good job for the American individuals and to ensure the errors of the previous aren’t repeated,” Vane added.
Trump then joined in to counsel, regardless of all proof on the contrary, that Iran’s retaliation towards neighboring states that host US army bases was a shock, and that Iran was not solely near having nuclear weapons, however deliberate to make use of them.
The president mentioned that Iran’s leaders “unexpectedly began firing missiles” in retaliation for US and Israeli strikes this month after which claimed that Iran would use a nuclear weapon “inside an hour in the event that they get it.”
“They wished to take over the Center East, and if I didn’t terminate Barack Hussein Obama’s horrible Iran nuclear deal, which I did in my first time period,” Trump mentioned, “you’d’ve had them have a nuclear weapon three years in the past, perhaps 4 years in the past, they might’ve used it, blown up the Center East after which they might’ve then come after us.”
Trump’s feedback are contradicted by the truth that the Iran nuclear deal explicitly prevented Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons in alternate for sanctions reduction, included strict worldwide monitoring of its enrichment of uranium for vitality or medical functions, and was not between simply the US and Iran, however all the world and Iran.
Non-proliferation consultants have additionally identified that the logic for international locations that do receive nuclear weapons, like North Korea, is to make sure that they aren’t attacked by different nations, not that they might use the weapons in an try and conquor nations, like Israel and the US, that have already got nuclear weapons.
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Donald Trump mentioned the US is “hammering” Iran’s capability to threaten industrial transport within the strait of Hormuz. Greater than 30 mine-laying ships have been destroyed, he claimed, earlier than including that the US is not sure if any mines have been dropped into the strait. Throughout his press convention right this moment, the president repeated his name to different international locations to assist reopen transport visitors within the strait, saying some international locations informed him they had been on the way in which and others had been “not that enthusiastic” about serving to. He notably slammed the UK, once more, for its reticence to get entangled within the battle.
The supreme courtroom will hear arguments in a case difficult authorized protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants. This comes after the federal government urged the justices to dam decrease courtroom rulings that prevented the Trump administration from ending Momentary Protected Standing (TPS) for each international locations. TPS offers reduction to individuals already within the US if their dwelling international locations expertise a pure catastrophe, armed battle or different extraordinary occasions. The Trump administration has sought to finish most enrollment in this system.
A federal appeals courtroom allowed the Trump administration to deport immigrants to international locations different their very own for the timebeing. At this time, the Boston-based first US circuit courtroom of appeals blocked district decide Brian E Murphy’s ruling final month, which mentioned that the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) ought to prioritize an immigrant’s dwelling nation as a primary possibility.
Susie Wiles, the primary lady to function White Home chief of workers, has been recognized with early-stage breast most cancers however plans to proceed working whereas present process therapy. The 68-year-old revealed on Monday that the sickness had been detected previously week. Each she and Donald Trump struck an optimistic tone, saying medical doctors anticipate a robust restoration.
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Supreme courtroom to listen to arguments in problem to authorized protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants
The supreme courtroom will hear arguments in a case difficult authorized protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, after the federal government urged the justices to dam decrease courtroom rulings that prevented the Trump administration from ending Momentary Protected Standing (TPS) for each international locations.
A reminder that TPS offers reduction to individuals already within the US if their dwelling international locations expertise a pure catastrophe, armed battle or different extraordinary occasions. The Trump administration has sought to finish most enrollment in this system – and tried to strip the standing from a string of nations, together with Haiti, Syria, Somalia and Venezuela – saying it runs counter to US pursuits.
For now, the supreme courtroom has stored authorized protections in place for immigrants from Haiti and Syria, forward of oral arguments in April.
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Trump chief of workers Susie Wiles recognized with breast most cancers
David Smith
Susie Wiles, the primary lady to function White Home chief of workers, has been recognized with early-stage breast most cancers however plans to proceed working whereas present process therapy.
The 68-year-old revealed on Monday that the sickness had been detected previously week. Each she and Donald Trump struck an optimistic tone, saying medical doctors anticipate a robust restoration.
“Practically one in eight ladies in the US will face this prognosis,” Wiles mentioned in an announcement. “Daily these ladies proceed to boost their households, go to work and serve their communities with energy and dedication. I now be a part of their ranks.”
Donald Trump speaks to Susie Wiles throughout a board assembly of the Kennedy Middle for the Performing Arts within the East Room of the White Home, 16 March 2026. {Photograph}: Alex Brandon/AP
The US president, writing on his Reality Social platform, described his aide as “one of many strongest individuals I do know” and mentioned her prognosis was “glorious”. He added that she can be “spending nearly full time on the White Home” whereas present process therapy.
Inside 20 minutes of Trump’s put up, Wiles was sitting alongside the president at a gathering of the Kennedy Middle board of trustees within the White Home East Room. Carrying a pink jacket, she obtained embraces from a number of attendees as she entered.
In opening remarks, Trump mentioned Wiles had already begun therapy for a “minor issue” that she would overcome. “She had a prognosis – you in all probability noticed it – and she or he’s gonna maintain it instantly versus ready,” he informed the gathering. “I mentioned do it instantly as a result of with that individual ailment, the quicker the higher.”
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Appeals courtroom permits Trump administration to deport immigrants to ‘third international locations’
A federal appeals courtroom allowed the Trump administration to deport immigrants to international locations different their very own for the timebeing.
At this time, the Boston-based first US circuit courtroom of appeals blocked district decide Brian E. Murphy’s ruling final month, which mentioned that the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) ought to prioritize an immigrant’s dwelling nation as a primary possibility. The courtroom additionally declared in February that deportees ought to have a “significant alternative” to boost a particular declare towards “removing to a 3rd nation”.
Since Murphy had paused his personal ruling – to offer the federal government an opportunity to enchantment – the primary circuit’s choice permits the administration to proceed with a coverage that has come to outline Donald Trump’s second time period within the White Home.
In response to the appeals courtroom’s choice, lawyer common Pam Bondi welcomed the information. “There’s extra work forward on this vital concern,” she mentioned, calling the ruling “a key win” for Trump’s immigration agenda.
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Jeffries plans to pressure vote to separate funding for sure DHS businesses
Home minority chief Hakeem Jeffries introduced that he will launch a discharge petition for a invoice that may fund sure businesses inside the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) which have been shutdown for a month – forcing many workers to work with out pay. To be able to pressure a vote on the Home flooring, Jeffries would want 218 signatures to proceed.
On Wednesday, the highest Democrat plans to pressure a vote on can be laws to fund the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), Federal Emergency Administration Company (Fema), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company (Cisa) and the Coast Guard.
Funding for the DHS stays at an deadlock, as Democrats demand stronger guardrails on federal immigration enforcement within the wake of crackdowns throughout the nation which have resulted within the deadly shootings of two US residents. Republicans, for his or her half, have known as lots of the proposals from their colleagues non-starters. Whereas the businesses that Jeffries seeks to fund have been affected by the shutdown, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been spared, because of a billion-dollar infusion from Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-policy invoice signed into regulation final yr.
“Republicans proceed to spend taxpayer {dollars} to fund ICE brutality towards Americans and law-abiding immigrant households,” Jeffries wrote in a letter to his Democratic colleagues. “On the similar time, Donald Trump and his sycophants in Congress are spending billions to drop bombs within the Center East, as an alternative of restoring their cuts to Medicaid and dietary help for thousands and thousands of kids, veterans, seniors and on a regular basis People.”
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Trump shuts down concept that Israel would use nuclear weapon on Iran
The president rapidly shut down a reporter’s query about the opportunity of Israel utilizing a nuclear weapon on Iran if the conlict escalates. This comes after considered one of Donald Trump’s advisors, David Sacks, urged the potential end result in a current interview
“Israel would by no means try this,” Trump mentioned right this moment. “You’ve pounded them to hell and you may simply depart now, and it’ll take 10 years for them to construct again not almost what they’ve proper now.”
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Throughout right this moment’s press convention, Donald Trump was requested why – if the US has destroyed all of Iran’s mine-laying vessels – might he not merely reopen the strait of Hormuz for transport. “It takes two to tango. We now have to get individuals to take their billion-dollar ship and, , drive it up,” he informed reporters.
“These ships are very costly,” Trump added. “They don’t wish to take an opportunity.”
The president claimed that some firms, because of this, had been nonetheless skittish about utilizing very important passageway. “We don’t know in the event that they even set any mines. However the thought that they might have is sufficient to preserve individuals saying, ‘we don’t want it’,” he mentioned.
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Donald Trump evaded the query about what a cope with Iran would possibly appear like within the third week of struggle. The president defined that he had grown annoyed with the regime’s use of video disinformation all through the battle.
“They confirmed buildings in Tel Aviv burning to the bottom, excessive rises burning. They confirmed buildings in Qatar, they confirmed buildings in Saudi Arabia burning. They usually weren’t burning. They weren’t hit,” he mentioned.
Relating to ongoing negotiations with the regime, the president added:
double citation markI speak to everyone as a result of generally good issues come out of it. However, I don’t know in the event that they’re prepared but. They’re taking a pounding … and we don’t even know their leaders.
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