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ABC News reports: As early as Friday, President Donald Trump is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act — a wartime law that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation — as part of the efforts to carry out mass deportations, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. During World …

Politico Europe reports: Portugal ruled out replacing its U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets with more modern F-35s because of Donald Trump — in one of the first examples of the U.S. president killing a potential lucrative arms deal. The country’s air force has recommended buying Lockheed Martin F-35s, but when outgoing Defense Minister Nuno Melo was asked by Portugese media Público …

The Washington Post reports: When Vice President JD Vance took his seat Thursday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington, he was met with a chorus of boos from the packed concert hall. Vance and the second lady, Usha Vance, were attending a performance by the National Symphony Orchestra, which was already seated onstage when the crowd spotted the pair …

The military site Task & Purpose reports: Arlington National Cemetery is the most venerated final resting ground in the nation, overseen by silent soldiers in immaculate uniforms with ramrod-straight discipline. Across its hundreds of acres in Virginia, they watch over 400,000 graves of U.S. service members dating back to the Civil War, including two presidents, and more than 400 Medal …

The ABA Journal reports: President Donald Trump is directing federal agencies to seek a money bond when plaintiffs file federal lawsuits against the administration that seek temporary restraining orders or preliminary injunctions. “In recent weeks,” Trump said in a March 11 memo, “activist organizations fueled by hundreds of millions of dollars in donations and sometimes even government grants have obtained …

Politico reports: Elon Musk visited the National Security Agency on Wednesday, according to an agency spokesperson. The initially undisclosed meeting comes roughly a week after the Trump ally said the U.S. intelligence agency needed to be overhauled. A NSA spokesperson confirmed that Musk met with NSA chief Gen. Timothy Haugh in what was Musk’s first visit to the agency. While …

Courthouse News reports: A coalition of farmers sued the Trump administration Thursday to lift an indefinite freeze of billions of dollars in funding for programs created under the Inflation Reduction Act. In the suit, brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the farmers challenge President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order “Unleashing American Energy,” which placed …

Reuters reports: Elon Musk’s Tesla said in a letter to the US trade representative Jamieson Greer that President Donald Trump’s trade war could make it a target for retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. “As a U.S. manufacturer and exporter, Tesla encourages USTR to consider the downstream impacts of certain proposed actions taken to address unfair trade practices,” the electric automaker …

The Meidas Touch reports: MAGA Billionaire Elon Musk, the owner of X, is facing criticism after amplifying a tweet that downplays the responsibility of historical dictators in mass killings. The post, originally from the account “Alice Smith” states: “Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did.” Musk, who has been attacking federal workers as …

Reuters reports: A California federal judge on Thursday ordered six U.S. agencies to reinstate thousands of recently-hired employees who were fired as part of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal workforce. The ruling made by U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco during a hearing applies to the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, …

San Diego’s ABC affiliate reports: A Canadian entrepreneur detained by ICE is speaking out after she got arrested while trying to enter the San Diego border to obtain a visa last Monday. “Every single guard that sees me is like ‘What are you doing here? I don’t understand – you’re Canadian. How are you here?’” Jasmine Mooney said in an interview …

“Think about it. The biggest trading partner in the whole world that is vital to Canada’s existence says, ‘I’m unhappy,”’and they respond negatively, you know why? Because for 20 years, 30 years, they’ve gotten away with it. “It’s like Ukraine. Imagine coming into this country, sitting in the Oval Office, having received $300 billion in aid from U.S. and military …

“Look, I was with the Business Roundtable yesterday. I think it was 100, 135 CEOs. And, you know, I talked to them about our plan, which includes tariffs, deregulation and what I call reprivatizing the government and bringing down this incredible bubble of government spending. “And you know what? One or two items were with one trading bloc. I’m not …

Axios reports: Monthly press calls featuring NOAA scientists detailing global climate conditions during the previous month have been suspended indefinitely, the agency told Axios. NOAA is the top weather and climate agency in the U.S. and among the foremost worldwide. The monthly U.S. and global climate calls typically feature climate scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) in …

Reuters reports: A group of Democratic state attorneys general on Thursday filed a lawsuit seeking to block Republican U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from dismantling the U.S. Department of Education and halt it from laying off nearly half of its staff. Democratic attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia filed the lawsuit in federal court in Boston …

The Guardian reports: The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is expected in the coming weeks to start a sweeping overhaul of the judge advocate general’s corps as part of an effort to make the US military less restricted by the laws of armed conflict, according to two people familiar with the matter. The changes are poised to have implications across …

Politico reports: A federal judge has ordered that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency turn over a wide array of records and answer questions about plans it crafted to downsize federal agencies, fire employees and suspend federal contracts. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s order Wednesday is a win for a group of 14 Democratic state attorneys general who …

Bloomberg Government reports: The Justice Department officially will stop buying paper straws for its buildings and operations, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced. Justice is ending “the procurement and provision” of paper straws throughout the department and plans to scrap any policies “designed to disfavor plastic straws,” according to the March 11 memo sent to employees and obtained by Bloomberg Government.  …

CNBC reports: The Federal Trade Commission asked a judge in Seattle to delay the start of its trial accusing Amazon of duping consumers into signing up for its Prime program, citing resource constraints. Attorneys for the FTC made the request during a status hearing on Wednesday before Judge John Chun in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of …

The Washington Post reports: Under pressure from the U.S. DOGE Service team to root out alleged fraud, the Social Security Administration is considering dramatically curtailing the phone services that 73 million retired and disabled Americans rely on to apply for and access their earned government benefits. Social Security leadership is now considering a proposal to end telephone service for claims …