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A federal judge delivered strict orders to President Donald Trump’s administration for its “willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations” in the ongoing court challenge revolving around Kilmar Ábrego Garcia, a Maryland father whom the government admitted it sent to El Salvador in error.

According to CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis issued a “blistering new order” on Tuesday that found the Trump has “sought refuge behind vague and unsubstantiated assertions of privilege, using them as a shield to obstruct discovery and evade compliance with this court's orders” in the case triggered with Garcia’s wrongful deportation.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi hosted the opening meeting of an "anti-Christian bias" task force Tuesday, as the government pressed federal workers to inform on work colleagues engaging in discriminatory behavior.

Although the United States has the world's largest Christian population, President Donald Trump -- who counts evangelicals among his most fervent supporters -- deemed it necessary to sign an Executive Order creating the task force to counter "persecution" of the faithful.

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he had no plans to fire the Federal Reserve chief, in apparently conciliatory remarks after berating him and triggering market turmoil.

Wall Street investors dumped US assets on Monday, with all three main indexes down after Trump took a series of swipes at Jerome Powell, head of the US central bank.

A judge on Tuesday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to restore funding to Voice of America and other US-funded media, saying its abrupt shutdown of the outlets broke the law.

The federal judge in Washington agreed to a request led by the outlets' employees for a preliminary injunction, a temporary order as a court examines the legal challenge in greater depth.

President Donald Trump backed off a threat he has escalated for weeks on Tuesday, telling reporters he doesn't have any plans to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, according to the Wall Street Journal.

When reporters in the Oval Office asked Trump whether he plans to do so, he replied, “None whatsoever."

The Trump administration responded Tuesday to a New York Times report that raised troubling questions about the whereabouts of a Venezuelan migrant in U.S. custody.

But even the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to clear up the confusion surrounding Ricardo Prada Vasquez, who friends say “simply disappeared,” sent alarm bells ringing for American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick.

Some of the prosecutors who worked on the case involving New York City Mayor Eric Adams were placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into the interim U.S. Attorney over the case. Now they're resigning.

In a letter sent to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Celia V. Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach and Derek Wikstrom resigned, saying that they refused to abandon their principles, Politico legal reporter Erica Orden posted.

Lawfare reporter Anna Bower needled the Justice Department on Tuesday afternoon after a filing misattributed a quote from a lower court judge to the Supreme Court.

The lawyer representing Kilmar Ábrego García, a Maryland father whom the government admitted it sent to El Salvador in error, called out the Justice Department for failing to comply with a judge's discovery order.

The Department of Health and Human Services, under the leadership of President Donald Trump and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was expected to cut funding for a suicide prevention program for LGBTQ+ youth by October.

The department intended to slash $40 billion in discretionary spending, The Washington Post first revealed last week. A draft document later showed that all funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services would be eliminated under the plan.

The Cato Institute's Scott Lincicome quickly poured cold water over the White House’s rosy picture of the international trade war President Donald Trump unleashed with his sweeping set of tariffs.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday told reporters during a news briefing that the Trump administration's talks with countries that have come to the negotiating table on tariffs have produced “18 proposals on paper.”

A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump to restart a critical public news service his administration shuttered, Politico's Kyle Cheney reported on Tuesday.

In the lawsuit Widakuswara v. Lake, Texas-based U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a jurist appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, found that the Voice of America, a news service run directly by the U.S. Agency for Global Media to counter foreign propaganda, must remain open, along with some other affiliated services, while the case continues into whether Trump had the authority to unilaterally shut it down without an act of Congress.

The conservative outlet National Review hammered President Donald Trump this week over his recent attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

“If Donald Trump is upset about higher interest rates, he should stop doing just about everything he can to undermine the U.S. economy in the eyes of the world,” the editors wrote.