Reason Roundup
Harvard University sues Trump administration for pulling federal funding
Battle heats up: Earlier this month, the Trump administration, which has declared war on elite universities and threatened to pull their funding, "sent Harvard a list of demands that included auditing professors for…
Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, dies at age 88
Pope Francis has died. The first Jesuit pope and first Latin American pope has died, at age 88, after a 12-year papacy in which he advocated for the rights of migrants and the poor. "On his first Sunday as pope, greeting…
The Trump administration and federal courts remain in a standoff over Abrego Garcia case
Movement in Abrego Garcia case: Yesterday, a panel of judges with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the administration's attempts to stay a court order that would have released Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El…
Department of Justice tries to prove Kilmar Abrego Garcia is MS-13
DOJ tries to prove Abrego Garcia is part of MS-13: Attorney General Pam Bondi has decided that instead of working to facilitate the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT)…
U.S. government refuses to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia return
"To date nothing has been done," federal Judge Paula Xinis told a lawyer with the Department of Justice (DOJ), rebuking them, referring to the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. "Nothing." You are reading Reason…
Trump wants to send U.S. citizens to El Salvador’s CECOT prison
CECOT for citizens: President Donald Trump met with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office yesterday and said his innermost thoughts out loud: "Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about…
Trump’s tariff whiplash causes confusion about which Chinese products are exempt
Trump's exceptions keep getting reversed: President Donald Trump just can't make up his mind about which Chinese products will have tariffs applied to them upon crossing our borders. All last week, Trump and Chinese…
U.S. must ‘facilitate’ the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador
Supreme Court rules on deportation: The Court, in an unsigned order, told the Trump administration that it must "facilitate and effectuate the return" of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from CECOT, the Salvadoran…
Trump’s newest tariff plan means trade war with China
We're doing a trade war: It's just not quite as extensive as previously feared. President Donald Trump announced yesterday, after more market bloodbath, that he would pause the implementation of his reciprocal…
Peter Navarro and Elon Musk feud over tariffs
Paging Ron Vara: If you were, say, a White House trade adviser who had been part of crafting the tariff plan that a) relied on a ChatGPT-based formula that makes no sense and levied tariffs on islands full of penguins, b)…
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