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Donald Trump’s attempt to “stash away” residents of the United States in a brutal prison in El Salvador “without due process” should be “shocking” to Americans’ “intuitive sense of liberty,” according to a panel of federal appeals court judges.

A three-judge panel in Washington, D.C. on Thursday denied the Trump administration’s emergency request to block a court order to enforce a Supreme Court ruling for the government to “facilitate” the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a wrongfully deported Salvadoran immigrant who was living in Maryland.

A blistering order written by Ronald Reagan-appointed appellate judge J. Harvie Wilkinson said “the government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order.”

The government claims that “it has rid itself of custody” of Abrego Garcia and “there is nothing that can be done,” according to the order.

Asked about why he has moved to change Harvard University’s tax status, Trump said in the Oval Office Thursday: “Because I think Harvard is a disgrace. They are obviously anti-semitic, and all of a sudden they are starting to behave.”

He noted that to his understanding, no final decision has been made about the Ivy League school’s status.

Earlier this week, the president suggested on Truth Social that Harvard should lose its tax-exempt status if it “keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?’”

Earlier on Thursday, the Trump administration threatened the university’s ability to enroll international students unless the school shares information about any of their disciplinary actions “as a result of making threats to other students or populations or participating in protests.” The school must comply by April 30.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote a letter to the university, accusing the school of creating a “hostile learning environment” for Jewish students

“Harvard bending the knee to antisemitism — driven by its spineless leadership — fuels a cesspool of extremist riots and threatens our national security,” she wrote in the letter.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration in March, despite a court order preventing his removal from the US.

The president expects to reach a deal with China over the social media platform in the coming weeks.

“We’ll just delay the deal until this works out one way or another,” he said. The president predicted the TikTok controversy could conclude within the next three or four weeks.

Trump said to think of America as a “big beautiful department store” that every country “wants a piece of.” China could always walk away and say “we’re not going to shop at the store of America.”

On Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s new report that showed the number of children who received an autism diagnosis had increased from 1 in 36 to 1 in 31.

“This epidemic denial has become a feature in the mainstream media. And it’s based on an industry canard,” he told reporters on Wednesday.

But just one month before, Kennedy’s department cut a grant that would have helped reduce suicide among autistic LGBT+ people.

Vladimir Putin has drawn a parallel between Elon Musk and a key figure in the Soviet space race, Sergei Korolev, praising the SpaceX founder as a visionary.

Putin reportedly invoked the legacy of Korolev, the engineer behind Yuri Gagarin’s historic 1961 spaceflight, to highlight the rarity of people like Musk.

TASS quoted Putin as saying: “Such people rarely appear in the human population, charged with a certain idea.

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President Donald Trump‘s administration has escalated its ongoing battle with Harvard, threatening to revoke the university’s ability to host international students as the president called for withdrawing Harvard’s tax-exempt status.

The Department of Homeland Security ordered Harvard late Tuesday to turn over “detailed records” of its foreign student visa holders’ “illegal and violent activities” by April 30. International students make up 27% of the campus.

The department also said it was canceling two grants to the school totaling $2.7 million.

The moves deepen the crackdown on Harvard, which on Monday became the first university to openly defy the administration’s demands related to activism on campus, antisemitism and diversity. The federal government has already frozen more than $2 billion in grants and contracts to the Ivy League institution.

Lindell has been ordered to pay voting software company Smartmatic the hefty fine over false claims he made about the company flipping the 2020 election for Joe Biden. It is one of a number of lawsuits Lindell faces over false election claims.

Now the troubled CEO claims that he doesn’t even have 5 cents left to pay the company the $56,396 he owes.