A race-based discrimination launched by the Trump administration against the Harvard Law Review said authorities were investigating policies and practices involving the journal’s membership and article selection that they argue may violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
A spokesperson for Harvard Law said in a statement that a similar claim was dismissed in 2018 by a federal court.
“Harvard Law School is committed to ensuring that the programs and activities it oversees are in compliance with all applicable laws and to investigating any credibly alleged violations,” said Jeff Neal. “The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization that is legally independent from the law school.”
The Trump administration says officials have received reports of race-based discrimination in the policies and practices for the journal’s membership and article selection.
The investigations come amid an ongoing legal battle involving Harvard as the university fights a federal freeze on $2.2 billion in grants.
An email seeking comment from the university was sent to a Harvard spokesperson on Monday.
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One of the orders signed by Trump orders states and federal officials to publish lists of jurisdictions often referred to as “sanctuary cities” that limit cooperation with federal officials’ efforts to arrest immigrants in the country illegally.
A second order signed by Trump calls for increasing access to excess military for state and local law enforcement. It also calls for bolstering legal support for officers accused of wrongdoing while carrying out their official duties.
Trump in the order directs the office of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “to create a mechanism to provide legal resources and indemnification to law enforcement officers who unjustly incur expenses and liabilities for actions taken during the performance of their official duties to enforce the law.”
Trump has signed an executive order reinforcing an already existing federal law requiring English-language proficiency as a requirement for commercial motor drivers.
In the ordered issued Monday evening, Trump contends the “requirement has not been enforced in years, and America’s roadways have become less safe.”
“My Administration will enforce the law to protect the safety of American truckers, drivers, passengers, and others, including by upholding the safety enforcement regulations that ensure that anyone behind the wheel of a commercial vehicle is properly qualified and proficient in our national language, English,” the order states.
Washington Commanders controlling owner Josh Harris holds up a signed helmet along with DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Washington’s NFL franchise is set to return to the nation’s capital.
Mayor Muriel Bowser says the District of Columbia and the Commanders reached an agreement to construct a new home for the football team in the city on the site of the old RFK Stadium.
Trump posted on social media that “the new Stadium Deal is a HUGE WIN for Washington, D.C.” and the fanbase.
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College Democrats at the University of Alabama are holding a rally to oppose Trump’s visit to campus on Thursday.
The University of Alabama College Democrats are holding an event titled “Tide Against Trump” — a play on the university’s “Crimson Tide” nickname — on the same day Trump is speaking on campus. The rally will be held at a Tuscaloosa park.
Trump is speaking at an event for graduating students ahead of commencement ceremonies over the weekend. All spring graduates at the university are invited to the event with Trump.
“UACD is shocked and disgusted to learn that our unpopular, divisive and authoritarian President will be involved in commencement for the graduating class of 2025,” the group wrote in a statement last week. “This insult will not go unanswered.”
President Donald Trump, in foreground, greets Philadelphia Eagles football player Saquon Barkley, center, and the Super Bowl champion NFL football team to the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, April 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump praised the team for their 14-3 regular season and playoff run behind running back Saquon Barkley and quarterback Jalen Hurts, who skipped Monday’s celebration.
“The Eagles have turned out to be an incredible team, an incredible group,” Trump said.
Trump attended the Philadelphia Eagles’ decisive Super Bowl victory in New Orleans over the Kansas City Chiefs. He predicted ahead of the game the Chiefs would win and offered lavish praise for quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
After the game, Trump mocked pop star Taylor Swift, who is dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Swift faced boos from some fans at one point during the game when she appeared on the jumbotron.
Trump referenced the moment at Monday’s White House ceremony.
“I watched in person, I was there along with Taylor Swift,” Trump said. “How did that work out?” Swift endorsed Trump’s 2024 Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris.
The Rev. William Barber, a prominent minister and activist, was arrested alongside other faith leaders at a demonstration in the Capitol Rotunda.
The prominent minister was protesting against the proposed Republican-led federal budget, which would extend and expand broad tax cuts alongside cuts to social and environmental programs.
“If you can’t challenge your adversary with the hope that they change and to know that even if they don’t, at least they will have no excuse that they did not get told what is right. That is a powerful witness,” Barber said in remarks outside the Capitol shortly before his arrest.
On Sunday, Barber joined House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey on the Capitol steps.
Asked whether he endorsed Barber’s act of civil disobedience, Jeffries said during a Monday press conference, “We’re in a more is more environment” for activism opposing Trump and said Barber “spoke powerfully at the sit-in yesterday.”
The president, in a Monday post on Truth Social, held up a navy blue sweater emblazoned with the name of the New York school district and its logo of a Native American man wearing an elaborate feathered headdress.
The district in suburban Long Island has refused to comply with a state requirement that schools must stop using Native American references in mascots, team names and logos or face loss of state aid and other penalties.
Last week, Trump ordered the U.S. Department of Education to intervene in the dispute.
The agency announced Friday it will investigate whether New York officials had violated federal laws and discriminated against the district.
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Trump announced he’s forming a committee to review the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which the president has said he’s considered eliminating after critiquing the agency’s response to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.
The new FEMA Review Council members will include Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley and others.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says Trump’s first 100 days have been “the worst start of any president in modern times.”
He warned there’s only more to come and vowed Democrats will provide the resistance.
“It’s been 100 days of hell for American families, for our economy and for our democracy,” he said as senators returned from spring recess.
The Trump administration said Monday that the University of Pennsylvania illegally denied women equal opportunities by letting a transgender swimmer compete on the school’s women’s team and into team facilities.
The administration’s statement doesn’t name Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer who last competed for the Ivy League school in 2022 and was the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title that year — an award Thomas now faces losing.
But the investigation opened in February by the U.S. Education Department focused on Thomas, who became a leading symbol of transgender athletes and a prominent political target of Republicans and President Donald Trump.
The department said Penn has 10 days to resolve the violations or risk prosecution.
It wants Penn to issue a statement saying that it will comply with Title IX, strip Thomas of any awards or records in Division I swimming and apologize to female swimmers. Penn had no immediate comment.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt hosted a briefing for influencers at the White House complex, and she told them that Trump would sign an executive order requiring truck drivers to know English.
“There’s a lot of communications problem between truckers on the road,” she said, which is “a public safety risk.”
“We’re going to ensure that our truckers, who are the backbone of our economy, are all able to speak English,” Leavitt said. “That’s a very common sense policy in the United States of America.”
Adam Schleifer was fired from his job as an assistant U.S. attorney last month after right-wing activist Laura Loomer called for his removal in a social media post.
Loomer highlighted Schleifer’s past critical views about Trump while running in a Democratic primary for a New York congressional seat.
Schleifer argues in a complaint with the Merit Systems Protection Board that he was fired for “unprecedented partisan and political reasons.”
The filing obtained by The Associated Press says his removal undermines a “bedrock principle” of the justice system: “that the federal prosecutor is not a partisan political actor, but has a duty to prosecute without fear or favor.”
An email seeking comment was sent to the White House.
Jalen Hurts is one of several Philadelphia Eagles players who are expected to skip Monday’s White House celebration to honor the Super Bowl champs, according to a White House official.
Hurts and other players cited scheduling conflicts as the reasons for their absences, according to the official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Asked by a reporter on the red carpet of Time magazine gala last week whether he would visit, Hurts responded with an awkward “um” and long silence before walking away.
Eagles star running back Saquon Barkley visited Trump over the weekend at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and caught a ride with the president to Washington on Air Force One.
The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington, March 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Personnel cuts across the Defense Department will delay plans to hire at least 1,000 more civilians to help prevent sexual assault, suicides and behavior problems within the military, senior defense officials said.
But they insist that crucial programs aimed at addressing sexual misconduct and providing help for victims are not affected so far.
The officials told The Associated Press that plans to have about 2,500 personnel in place to do this prevention work throughout the military services, combatant commands, ships and bases by fiscal year 2028 have been slowed due to the hiring freeze and cuts.
But they said they’re looking to spread out the roughly 1,400 people they have been able to hire to date and try to fill gaps as best they can until the additional staff can be hired.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel decisions.
Michael Romano, former Jan. 6 prosecutor, speaks during an interview, Thursday, April 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
A former supervisor of the team that prosecuted the 1,500 plus people charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol says he fears Trump’s pardons could embolden right-wing extremists and encourage future political violence.
Michael Romano resigned as a deputy chief of the now-disbanded Capitol Siege Section after 17 years in the Justice Department. In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, Romano said these defendants and other right-wing extremists got a clear message from Trump’s sweeping pardons:
“If you support the president and if you commit violence in support of the president, that he might insulate you from the consequences, that he might protect you from the criminal justice system,” Romano said. “And so that might encourage people to commit these sort of acts.”
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Trump has urged investors worried about his tariffs’ impact to “be cool.”
But retired and near-retired Americans are anxiously watching the turmoil his trade war has injected into financial markets, worried about outliving their savings or having to put off big purchases.
Michael Montgomery poses at his home in Huntington Woods, Mich., Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Though stocks rallied this week, the S&P 500 is down 10% from its all-time high in February. Losses in the Nasdaq and among small-cap stocks are steeper. Even bonds and the U.S. dollar have been volatile. Many economists are warning of a possible recession.
The Cboe Volatility Index, considered a “fear gauge” of investor pessimism, reached its highest level in five years this month.
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The U.S. House is ending a 17-day recess known as a district work period, when members of Congress typically return home to focus on their constituents.
The 10 most vulnerable House Republicans, as measured by their margins of victory last fall, were especially hard to find. None of these swing-district conservatives from across Arizona, Colorado, California, Iowa, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin hosted in-person events that were open to the public.
Just one planned a telephone town hall. Others favored invitation-only gatherings that weren’t promoted until after they were over.
GOP leaders have advised that there’s no benefit to creating more viral moments amid potential backlash over Trump’s first months in office.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during a press conference at the Illinois Department of Transportation in Springfield, Ill., Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)
“Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption, but I am now,” JB Pritzker said. Democrats “must castigate them on the soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box.”
The billionaire Hyatt heir has been laying the groundwork for a potential presidential campaign for years. He drew national attention in February when he drew a parallel between Trump’s rhetoric and the rise of Nazi Germany.
Pritzker invoked his Jewish faith again at the New Hampshire Democratic Party dinner Sunday night, drawing a standing ovation when he called on Trump to “stop tearing down the Constitution in the name of my ancestors.”
The U.S. president trolled Canadians on social media as they voted Monday for Liberal Party Prime Minister Mark Carney or Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. Trump suggested that he himself was on the ballot, repeating that Canada should become the 51st state and incorrectly claiming that the U.S. subsidizes Canada.
“It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!” Trump posted.
Canadians, infuriated, have canceled U.S. vacations, refused to buy American goods and voted early — a record 7.3 million Canadians cast ballots before their Election Day.
Beijing’s repeated denials on Monday were unequivocal: There have been no recent calls between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
When asked about Trump’s claim in a recent TIME interview that the Chinese leader had called him, Guo Jiakun, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry, said. “As far as I know, there have not been any calls between the two presidents recently.”
Guo went on and said: “Let me make it clear one more time that China and the U.S. are not engaged in any consultation or negotiation on tariffs.”
Trump has often raged against the Atlantic magazine and its editor, Jeffrey Goldberg. But he decided to grant them an interview anyways, talking extensively about his return to power and his plans for the presidency.
During the conversation, Trump compared his first and second terms.
“The first time, I had two things to do — run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys,” he said. “And the second time, I run the country and the world.”
Homan said “the numbers are good.”
He said total deportations haven’t been higher because the Trump administration has been so effective at increasing enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Homan also asserted that the Biden administration’s deportation totals were inflated by counting migrants who were turned away as they tried to cross the border illegally.
Under Trump, detentions at the border have plummeted while more people have been deported from around the country, Homan said.
“I don’t accept the term error and Abrego Garcia,” Homan told reporters at the White House. “There is an oversight.”
He acknowledged that a court order would have blocked Abrego Garcia’s deportation. The Supreme Court later ordered the administration to facilitate his return to the U.S.
But Homan said “things have changed” given accusations that he was a gang member.
Trump officials have argued they have no jurisdiction in El Salvador. And Leavitt said Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has no plans “to smuggle a designated foreign terrorist back into the United States.”
Leavitt said the administration “plans to comply” with what Bukele said.
Tom Homan was asked if Mexico is paying for construction on the U.S.-Mexico border, a Trump promise that didn’t happen during his first term.
He asserted that the U.S. is saving millions a day on detention and transportation costs because Mexico has troops patrolling their side of the border.
“We’ve more than made up for the cost of that wall,” he said.
The orders will:
- Expand law enforcement operations to make it easier to detain migrants
- Direct state and federal officials to publish lists of “sanctuary city” jurisdictions where local authorities often don’t concentrate on enforcing federal immigration regulations.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said “sanctuary” cities have worked to “obstruct” enforcement.
President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“We are in the beginning stages of carrying out the largest deportation campaign in American history,” Leavitt said during a Monday morning briefing with reporters.
“I believe that it’s up to China to de-escalate, because they sell five times more to us than we sell to them, and so these 120%, 145% tariffs are unsustainable,” Scott Bessent said during an interview Monday on the business channel CNBC.
Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be secretary of the Treasury, appears before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Bessent moved markets last week when he said in a private speech to JPMorgan Chase that he expects a deescalation in the trade war because “Neither side thinks the status quo is sustainable.”
Export vehicles are parked at Daikoku Pier in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s government is preparing for a second round of negotiations this week over U.S. tariffs.
The U.S. tariffs “could change the foundation of free and fair economic order and deal a serious blow to the auto and steel industries that support the Japanese economy as well as the entire global economy,” Ishiba said. “We must keep pushing (the U.S.) to reconsider.”
Ishiba’s government adopted emergency measures to expand support for the auto industry, cash-strapped small business owners and other companies, diversify export destinations and maintain jobs, promote industrial restructuring and competitiveness as well as domestic consumption and mitigate price hikes.
Economic Revitalization Minister Ryosei Akazawa is expected to visit Washington next week for a second round of negotiations.
The weeks since Trump returned to office have been a whirlwind of activity to show Americans that his administration is relentlessly pursuing his promises.
With a compliant Republican-controlled Congress, Trump has had a free hand to begin overhauling the federal government and upending foreign policy.
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
As Trump hits his 100th day in office Tuesday, his imprint is everywhere. But the long-term impact is often unclear.
Some of the Republican president’s executive orders are statements of intent or groundwork to achieve what has yet to be done.
Trump’s goals occasionally conflict with each other. He promised both to lower the cost of living and to impose tariffs on foreign goods, which will most likely increase prices. Other issues are languishing.
Very much unsettled is whether Trump has run up his scorecard lawfully. He has faced lawsuits over some of his actions, meaning much of what he’s done could be undone as cases play out.
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Trump is scheduled to have lunch with Vice President JD Vance and meet with House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Later in the day, he’s hosting the Philadelphia Eagles to celebrate their Super Bowl Victory. Running back Saquon Barkley traveled with Trump from New Jersey to Washington on Sunday, flying aboard Air Force One and Marine One.
The president is expected to finish the day by signing executive orders.
The first one will feature Tom Homan, the president’s top border adviser.
Officials set the stage by lining up posters with mug shots of migrants who have been accused of crimes. They’re positioned outside the West Wing to be in the background of correspondents’ television shots.
President Donald Trump, left, poses for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
As Trump’s trade war locks the world’s two largest economies on a collision course, America’s unnerved allies and partners are cozying up with China to hedge their bets. It comes as Trump’s trade push upends a decade of American foreign policy — including his own from his first term — toward rallying the rest of the world to join the United States against China. And it threatens to hand Beijing more leverage in any eventual dialogue with the U.S. administration.
With Trump saying that countries are “kissing my ass” to negotiate trade deals on his terms or risk stiff import taxes, Beijing is reaching out to countries far and near. It portrays itself as a stabilizing force and a predictable trading partner, both to cushion the impact from Trump’s tariffs and to forge stronger trade ties outside of the U.S. market.
“America and China are now locked in a fierce contest for global supremacy,” Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said in an April 16 speech. “Both powers claim they do not wish to force countries to choose sides. But in reality, each seeks to draw others closer into their respective orbits.”
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