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A Democratic lawmaker’s brutal takedown of what she characterized as the unscrupulous actions Elon Musk is engaging in as head of the Department of Government Efficiency sparked a tense clash Thursday night when Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) tried to squeeze in his own retort.

The fiery exchange unfolded during a CNN town hall just after Lawler delivered a fierce defense of the tech billionaire, whom he credited with conducting a “turbocharged forensic audit through every department and agency.”

A former official in George W. Bush's administration knocked the Justice Department over its response to a Supreme Court ruling that ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of a migrant who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador.

The conservative-leaning high court ruled that a lower court correctly ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release from custody from a notoriously brutal Salvadoran megaprison and to "ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador."

by María Isabel Sánchez

US troops will be able to deploy to a string of bases along the Panama Canal under a joint deal seen by AFP Thursday, a major concession to President Donald Trump as he seeks to reestablish influence over the vital waterway.

by Beiyi SEOW

US President Donald Trump's delay of steeper tariffs may have won brief respite on Wall Street, but analysts say his actions -- which hit China especially hard -- already bring the average US effective tariff rate to its highest in over a century.

by Julien Girault with Sebastian Smith in Washington and Raziye Akkoc in Brussels

Jitters about US tariffs hammered Asian stocks again early Friday as President Donald Trump acknowledged a "cost" to his surging trade offensive against superpower rival China.

It didn’t take long for a political quarrel to unfold during a CNN town hall on Thursday featuring four members of Congress, who, besides taking audience questions, also took on each other.

The first head-to-head of the night brought Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) out of his seat to respond to jabs flung by Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT) as the two debated immigration issues, including the Laken Riley Act.

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins flagged a "notable" response from a Connecticut Democrat, who acknowledged at a televised town hall Thursday night that she regretted voting in favor of the Laken Riley Act.

President Donald Trump signed the act into law in late January, mandating that certain noncitizens be held without bail if they're accused of specific crimes, including theft, burglary, shoplifting, assaulting a police officer, or crimes causing death or serious bodily injury. The law applies even if charges are later dropped and includes people authorized to be in the United States, such as asylum seekers and those with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, or Temporary Protected Status. Minors are not exempt.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) loaded up on stocks in the middle of the market's freefall due to President Donald Trump's imposition of draconian tariffs around the world, CBS News reported on Thursday.

"The Georgia Republican, an avid supporter of the Trump administration's trade policies, not only bought stocks last week as others dumped them in a panic — she scooped up some of the biggest losers," said the report. "Lululemon, Dell Computer, Amazon, the parent of Restoration Hardware and a few others hit hard by President Trump's tariff threats were down 40% on average late last week when she pounced. Data from a required three-page financial holdings document doesn't disclose exactly how much she paid for the stocks, only ranges and dates."

U.S. House passes bill targeting voting by noncitizens, which is already against the law

by Jacob Fischler, Daily Montanan
April 10, 2025

The Supreme Court’s instructions for the government to “facilitate the return” of the Maryland father mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvadoran prison last month sent a clear message of disapproval to the Trump administration, according to former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin.

But it also sparked more legal questions than settled answers for the CNN legal analyst, who agreed that the ruling Thursday evening in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was “a big deal from this Supreme Court.”

A federal judge in Boston has signaled she is likely to block President Donald Trump's plan to deport thousands of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants granted protected status in the United States, reported the Miami Herald on Thursday.

Per the report, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, stated "that her decision will allow the paroled migrants to stay in the United States as they pursue immigration benefits. In effect, it will prevent the Department of Homeland Security from revoking their parole status as part of an administration plan to end the humanitarian program on April 24."

President Donald Trump threatened Mexico wth "escalating consequences," asserting the U.S. ally owes Texas a massive amount of water under a decades-old treaty and is "unfortunately violating their Treaty obligation."

Under the 1944 U.S.-Mexico Water Treaty, Mexico is obligated to deliver water to the United States, specifically Texas. The treaty requires Mexico to provide nearly 1.8 million acre-feet of water every five years from six tributaries that flow into the Rio Grande.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to shed his public image as an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist now that he heads up the Department of Health and Human Services. But in private, he continues to make the same conspiratorial claims he always has, The Atlantic reported on Thursday — and he has even proselytized them to the families of children who died of measles.

One of Kennedy's first major challenges as health secretary was to manage an outbreak of measles in Texas that has sickened hundreds, killing three. Measles, one of the most infectious viruses known to humans, was essentially wiped out as an endemic disease thanks to the MMR vaccine, which Kennedy has baselessly called dangerous.