• Top News
  • New York Times/Washington Post/Wall Street Journal: Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar International Students at Harvard
  • The Hill/Washington Examiner/Daily Wire: Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign students ban
  • The Hill: Noem: Harvard international students ban a ‘warning’ to other universities
  • DailySignal: Harvard ‘and Others’ Need to Get in Line or Lose Foreign Students, Trump Says
  • New York Times: Trump Seeks Extensive Student Data in Pressure Campaign to Control Harvard
  • Washington Post: Why is Trump going after Harvard? Here’s how the attacks have escalated.
  • New York Times: Universities See Trump’s Harvard Move as a Threat to Them, Too
  • Bloomberg: Global Deans Condemn Move Denying International Students to Harvard
  • Newsweek: Harvard Student Blasts Trump: Attacking ‘Very Basis of My College Life’
  • Breitbart: Dismayed Chinese students ponder prospects after Trump Harvard ban
  • Reuters: ‘Harvard refugee’: Chinese students hunker down as U.S. blocks foreign enrollment
  • Breitbart: China Condemns U.S. Ending Foreign Student Program at Harvard, Where Xi Jinping’s Daughter’s Studied
  • Reuters: Long advantageous, Harvard’s China ties become a political liability
  • CBS News: China says Trump’s crackdown on Harvard "will only damage" U.S.
  • Axios: Trump’s Harvard move could break startup pipeline
  • Politico: Belgium’s future queen caught up in Trump’s war on Harvard
  • Federalist: U.S. Universities Have Blood On Their Hands In Latest Violence Against Jews
  • AP: Trump administration says Columbia violated civil rights of Jewish students
  • Breitbart: Exclusive: The Detailed Rap Sheets of 8 Illegals Whose Deportations Are Halted Thanks to Biden-Appointed Judge
  • Reuters: Trump officials are using polygraph tests to flush out even minor leaks
  • The Hill: Noem on dismissal of lawsuit for sending migrants to Guantánamo Bay: ‘Suck it’
  • Washington Times: Court rules that deportation of mother is not ‘cruel and unusual punishment’
  • NPR: Can Trump suspend habeas corpus?
  • Reuters/New York Post: DOJ sues Newark, three more New Jersey cities over sanctuary policies: ‘A frontal assault
  • FOX News: Trump DOJ moves to dissolve Flores decree which governs detention of unaccompanied minors in the U.S.
  • New York Times/CNN: Judge Orders Trump Officials to Seek Return of Guatemalan Man to U.S.
  • Washington Post: As a boy in El Salvador, Abrego García feared gangs, avoided recruitment
  • FOX News: Trump sanctions are ‘full-frontal assault’ on organized crime at the border, expert says
  • New York Times: How to Understand Trump’s Latest Deportation Tactics
  • Univision: Criminalizing transportation of undocumented immigrants and DNA collection: restrictive immigration laws passed in Alabama
  • CBS News: Border czar Tom Homan’s security detail costs $1 million a month
  • Bloomberg: Homeland Oversight Teams to Return with Tiny Staff in Trump Plan
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • The Hill: I was an Israeli diplomatic staffer. These murders are shocking, but not surprising.
  • NewsMax: Embassy Staffers Murders Product of Dehumanizing Jews
  • Washington Post: This is just embarrassing
  • Wall Street Journal: [MA] Is Trump Trying to Destroy Harvard?
  • New York Times: [MA] Harvard Derangement Syndrome
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • CBS News: ICE ending migrants’ court cases in order to arrest and move to deport them
  • Breitbart: Trump’s DHS Deports Accused Child Rapist Who Was Released into U.S. by Biden Administration
  • AP: Trump administration releases people to shelters it threatened to prosecute for aiding migrants
  • Washington Post: Immigrant arrests at courthouses signal new tactic in Trump’s deportation push
  • Univision: ICE arrests in courthouses are on the rise: the government acknowledges it’s its new tactic to increase expedited deportations.
  • Reuters: ICE arrests migrants at courthouses, opens door to fast-track deportations
  • Breitbart: Report: Trump’s DHS Pressures Thousands of Illegal Aliens to Self-Deport with Billions in Fines
  • NewsMax: House Spending Bill Includes About $150B to Beef Up Immigration Enforcement
  • NBC News Daily: [ME] Lewiston Business Owner Detained by ICE
  • Breitbart: [NH] New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte Signs Bills Banning Sanctuary Cities
  • Blaze: [NH] Don’t Mass up New Hampshire’: NH takes critical step to avoid fate of neighboring sanctuary cesspools
  • Daily Caller: [MA] Illegal Migrant Hiding In US For Decades Nabbed After Allegedly Voting In Election, Stealing Gov’t Benefits
  • NPR: [NY] Mahmoud Khalil told a judge his deportation could be a death sentence. Here’s why
  • The Hill: [DC] Georgetown scholar says detention was ‘mockery of rule of law’
  • CBS Austin: [GA] Dalton teen reunites with family early Friday morning: Legal battles loom after release
  • NBC News: [AL] U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released
  • New York Times: [FL] Florida Republicans Break With Trump Over Venezuelan Deportations
  • DailySignal: Trump Administration Takes Another Step to Prevent Noncitizen Voting
  • Federalist: Supreme Court Stands By While Lower Courts Carry On Ripping Up The Constitution
  • FOX News: Harvard alum, GOP rep says protests 35 years ago were common, but never unsafe
  • FOX News: [IL] Two illegal Venezuelan immigrants, suspected TdA gang members charged in deadly Chicago mass shooting
  • FOX News: [WI] New footage shows Milwaukee judge confronting ICE before allegedly helping illegal immigrant exit
  • CBS News: [TX] ICE arrests immigrants at Dallas courthouse amid new deportation tactic
  • Breitbart: [TX] 275 Illegal Aliens Arrested in 7-Day San Antonio ICE Raids
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Texas bill requiring sheriffs assist ICE would cost Harris County $1M
  • CBS Austin: [WA] Anticipated trial begins for immigrant accused in deadly crash of WSP trooper
  • Univision: [CA] Hispanic recounts how ICE agents tried to detain him inside California courthouse
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [Mexico] US gun trafficking to Mexico: Independent gun shops supply the most dangerous weapons
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Telemundo: More than 57,000 immigrants have already signed up to the mandatory registration created by Trump: "Probably come for me"
  • The Hill: Forecasted foreign student drop catastrophic for US colleges
  • Newsmax: Trump Hints at ‘Road Towards Citizenship’
  • DailySignal: Trump Administration Takes Another Step to Prevent Noncitizen Voting
  • CBS News: [TX] Texas duo, law firm and business entity indicted in "massive, multi-year immigration fraud scheme," prosecutors say
  • CNN: [TX] Mexican singer Julion Alvarez postpones Texas show after US visa allegedly revoked
  • New York Times: [United Kingdom] Record Number of Americans Apply for British Citizenship
• Customs and Border Protection
  • FOX News: Republican AGs visit US-Mexico border wall as Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ clears expansion funding
  • USA Today: Illegal border crossings have plunged. DHS still says it needs billions to build a wall.
  • FedScoop: Senate border technology bill would empower CBP innovation team
  • NewsMax: Sen. Lankford Takes Aim at Southern Border Drone Threat
  • Washington Examiner: [IL] Nearly 2 million illegal e-cigarettes from China seized by FDA and CBP in joint operation
  • Blaze: [Canada] FBI director Kash Patel to Canada: Control your border
• Transportation Security Administration
  • NPR: Memorial Day Weekend travel could break records. Here’s how to prepare for your trip
  • NBC News Daily: Memorial Day Travel
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Washington Post: FEMA faces backlog of emergency aid requests as hurricane season nears
  • AP: Trump approves FEMA disaster relief for 8 states
  • Washington Examiner: [MO] St. Louis emergency official on leave after failure to sound alarm during fatal tornadoes
• Coast Guard
  • CBS Austin: Coast Guard releases video of chilling sound from Titan sub’s implosion
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Cyberscoop: Large-scale sting tied to Operation Endgame disrupts ransomware infrastructure
  • Washington Post: [China] Cyberdefense cuts could sap U.S. response to China hacks, insiders say
  • StateScoop: [China] Chinese hackers used Cityworks vulnerability to deliver malware
• Terrorism Investigations
  • NewsMax: President Trump, Declare Antisemitism a National Emergency
  • Washington Post: [DC] D.C. police, synagogues enhance security in wake of Jewish museum shooting
  • Daily Wire: [DC] House Republicans Condemn ‘Evil’ Murder Of Israeli Embassy Staffers: ‘Antisemitic Terrorism’
  • USA Today: [DC] Suspect in shooting outside Jewish museum in DC faces local, federal charges: What we know
  • Breitbart: [DC] US tightens security after murder of Israeli embassy staff
  • ABC News: [TN] Accused neo-Nazi cult leader extradited to US, as DOJ alleges ties to deadly Nashville school shooting
• National Security News
  • Los Angeles Times: White House slashing staff in major overhaul of National Security Council, officials say
  • FOX News: Hegseth hits Pentagon press with stricter orders on credentials in order to protect ‘national security’
  • Wall Street Journal: ‘It’s Time for Nuclear’ to Meet Growing U.S. Power Needs, Trump Declares
  • Reuters: Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government, raising conflict concerns
  • AP: [El Salvador] Why El Salvador President Bukele’s foreign agents law is fueling democratic concerns
  • Reuters: [Sudan] US to impose sanctions on Sudan after finding government used chemical weapons
  • Reuters: [Russia] Putin says he wants boost to Russian arms exports
  • NewsMax: [Israel] Amb. Danon: Forces at UN ‘Facilitating Terrorism’
  • Wall Street Journal: [Iran] U.S., Iran Aim for Framework to Guide Talks Toward Nuclear Deal
  • Bloomberg: [Iran] Iran And US Start Fifth Round of Nuclear Talks in Rome

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