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Trump's pushback on judges challenges U.S. system of checks and balances

By Laura Barrón-López, Doug Adams, Shrai Popat

President Trump called for the impeachment of the judge who ordered a halt to the deportations of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. The threat comes after Judge James Boasberg also scolded the administration for failing to answer questions about the deportations.

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Trump fires two Democratic FTC members

By Associated Press

The dismissal of the Federal Trade Commission members Tuesday potentially will allow President Donald Trump to fill their slots on the independent corporate regulator with officials more sympathetic to his administration.

Families search for loved ones after hundreds taken on U.S. immigration flights disappear from online locator

By Joshua Goodman, Gisela Salomon, Associated Press

Some turned up among the more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants flown over the weekend to El Salvador.

EPA plans to cut scientific research, more than 1,000 employees could be fired

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press

As many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists — 75% of the research program's staff — could be laid off, according to documents reviewed by Democratic staff on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

DOGE's USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution, judge rules

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

The order requires the Trump administration to restore email and computer access to all employees of USAID, including those put on administrative leave, though it appears to stops short of reversing firings or fully resurrecting the agency.

Pentagon is cutting up to 60,000 civilian jobs, administration aims for at least 5 percent total reduction

By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press

The official said Tuesday that to reach the goal of a 5 percent to 8 percent cut in a civilian workforce of more than 900,000, the department aims to cut another 6,000 positions a month by simply not replacing workers…

Pentagon restores some webpages honoring minority service members but defends DEI purge

By Leah Willingham, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Tara Copp, Associated Press

The Pentagon says internet pages honoring a Black Medal of Honor winner and Japanese American service members were mistakenly taken down. But it is defending its campaign to strip out content singling out the contributions by women and minority groups.

Fact-checking Trump's claim that Biden pardons are 'void' because he used an autopen

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

Legal scholars say that the Constitution doesn’t require a pardon’s direct human signing, and subsequent judicial decisions and legal memoranda support an autopen’s use for similar purposes.

Chief Justice Roberts rejects Trump's call for impeaching a judge who ruled against him

By Chris Megerian, Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said in a rare statement.

Trump says federal judge who ruled against deportation orders should be impeached

By Chris Megerian, Associated Press

Trump's comments on Tuesday align him with allies like Elon Musk, who has made similar demands and suggested that the judiciary's power over the executive branch should be curtailed.