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Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen is expected to be in El Salvador on Wednesday to try to check on a man who was his constituent who was deported to El Salvador.  A Justice Department attorney said in a court filing the deportation was a mistake, but the Trump administration has since disputed that argument.

The Trump administration has revoked more than 1,100 foreign student visas since it launched its mission against alleged terrorist sympathizers and antisemitism, according to a report. A database from Inside Higher Ed indicates a sudden and dramatic rise in orders stripping foreigners of the ability to legally study in the U.S., weeks after Secretary of State Marco Rubio put the number at around 300. Many of the students lost their visas over their alleged anti-Israel or pro-terrorist advocacy and previous criminal records, the outlet said, citing mostly public news reports and university statements.

Illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia was arrested in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 12 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Allegedly a member of MS-13, he was deported to El Salvador and has resided in El Salvador’s Terrorist Confinement Center for more than a month. Abrego Garcia’s case has become a cause célèbre on the Left, where Democrats and their open borders allies have peddled the story that he was “mistakenly deported.”

Ira Dean comes from a musical family. His brother is Billy Dean, but not that Billy Dean. "It's a joke because Billy Dean's royalty checks used to go to my brother," Ira Dean said. But his brother and father were both very much in the business. His father played guitar, sang, and even had his own radio show when he was 13, so the music business is all Dean's ever known. "It was either make it or wear a hairnet and say, 'Do you want fries with that?'" he joked.

Republicans have seen their polling advantage on the economy and inflation disappear in the fallout from President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, according to a recent survey. While they maintained a narrow advantage on the economy generally, voters broke for the Democrats on inflation in the latest iteration of the Napolitan News Survey. Only 41% favored the GOP on the economy, compared to 40% who backed the Democrats. Only inflation, however, Democrats led with 42% support to the GOP's 38%.

Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy holds a double-digit lead, according to a poll released Tuesday. The entrepreneur and 2024 GOP presidential candidate has 71% of the primary vote, according to pollster Fabrizio Lee, which was first reported by the news outlet Semafor. 

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from revoking legal status and work permits for over 530,000 illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, ruled Monday that the Trump administration cannot terminate the legal status of the migrants “without case-by-case review.”

While Democrats weaponized invented Russia collusion claims in an attempt to sink President Donald Trump’s first term, in retrospect the party’s leaders have often gone soft on Russia when it wanted to reap financial or political benefits for themselves or allies. From the Obama-era "Russian Reset" and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Skolkovo investment project to Hunter Biden’s business in Moscow and President Joe Biden’s waiving of sanctions against a Russian pipeline, key Democratic figures reaped political and financial benefits from going soft on Moscow.

Deep-blue states and school districts are facing perhaps unprecedented scrutiny from the feds for using gender identity to determine access to intimate spaces, sex-segregated sports and parental rights, with billions in education funding on the line. But more conservative districts in those same states face their own uphill battle, and some are now seeking Trump administration intervention to protect their sex-first policies.

The Trump administration’s decision to prohibit Medicaid coverage of child sex-change procedures will save taxpayers at least $18.5 million. Between 2019 and 2023, the total submitted charges for child sex-change surgeries in the U.S. amounted to $108,516,134, of which $18,476,978 were submitted to Medicaid, including traditional Medicaid and managed Medicaid, according to data from medical watchdog Do No Harm shared with The Daily Signal.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will begin chip production at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) facility in Arizona, marking the first time the company’s processors will be made on U.S. soil. The announcement, delivered Tuesday by CEO Lisa Su in Taipei, signals a sharp pivot in AMD’s manufacturing strategy as the Trump administration ramps up scrutiny of foreign-made semiconductors. With Washington eying tariffs on chip imports over national security concerns, AMD joins a growing list of tech giants racing to localize operations amid mounting trade risks.

A libertarian group on Monday sued President Donald Trump over his "liberation day" tariffs, claiming the president overstepped his authority to do so. The filing marks the first lawsuit the president has faced over the wide-reaching tariffs. Trump announced steep tariffs on certain U.S. trading partners on April 2, which he later changed to temporarily imposing 10% tariffs on all trading partners for 90 days. 

No one wants a “trade war” with China, or for that matter with any nation. Nonetheless, China has been waging one for years and is now locked in a tariff recalibration with the Trump administration. In this American effort to find trade parity and equity, China can do some short-term damage to the U.S., especially in terms of ceasing exports of some pharmaceuticals, phones, and computers. But ultimately, it cannot win—and will eventually lose catastrophically. It will likely accept that reality sooner rather than later.

The Trump administration's Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism on Monday announced it was freezing $2.2 billion in federal funding for Harvard, after the Ivy League school declared it would not comply with the administration's demands. 

Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu’s 2021 campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a fundraiser who is listed by a Chinese intelligence agency as an official, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered. Gary Yu, the founder of Boston International Media Consulting, helped raise over $300,000 for Wu with the help of a Chinese civic association he leads. However, Yu — whose Chinese name is Yu Guoliang — is listed as an official by an agency of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), and also operates as a recruiter for the Chinese government, according to reports from the CCP, Chinese state media and civic associations led by Yu.