The Latest:Administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students, says thousands must transfer

The Trump administration revoked Harvard University s ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country In a separate court affair a judge in California blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal status of international students nationwide while a court development challenging previous terminations is pending Here s the latest White House says judge s ruling could jeopardize U S relations overseas The White House says a federal judge who rebuked the Trump administration over a series of deportations is menacing U S relationships overseas Press secretary Karoline Leavitt rejected the comments of federal Judge Brian Murphy who mentioned Wednesday that the Trump administration violated a court order on deportations to third countries with a flight linked to South Sudan Murphy disclosed eight asylum seekers aboard the plane were not given a meaningful opportunity to object to their deportation Leavitt mentioned Thursday that Judge Murphy is forcing federal functionaries to remain in Djibouti for over two weeks as a effect She noted the judge s comments were also threatening our U S diplomatic relationships with countries around the world though she refused to discuss what other third countries might have agreed to accept U S deportation flights Federal judge blocks immigration officers from revoking international students legal status A judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal status of international students nationwide while a court occurrence challenging previous terminations plays out U S District Judge Jeffrey White on Thursday barred the governing body from reversing the students legal status arresting or transferring them until the development is resolved They could still be arrested in cases like violent crimes White reported the authorities s actions wreaked havoc not only on the lives of Plaintiffs here but on similarly situated F- nonimmigrants across the United States and continues do so Trump administration says thousands of international students enrolled at Harvard must transfer or leave the US The Trump administration revoked Harvard University s ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country The Department of Homeland Safety broadcasted the action Thursday saying Harvard has created an unsafe campus atmosphere by allowing anti-American pro-terrorist agitators to assault Jewish students on campus Without offering evidence it also accused Harvard of coordinating with the Chinese communist party This means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status the agency stated in a message Harvard enrolls almost foreign students at its campus in Cambridge Massachusetts accounting for more than a quarter of its apprentice body Greater part are graduate students coming from more than countries Republican tax bill guts clean potential tax credits that Democrats approved three years ago in weather law The big tax breaks package passed by House Republicans early Thursday would gut clean potency tax credits that Democrats approved three years ago while supporting increased mining drilling and other traditional ability production The bill which now heads to the Senate repeals or phases out more expeditiously clean potency tax credits passed in the Inflation Reduction Act during former President Joe Biden s term Biden s atmosphere law has been considered monumental for the clean strength transition but the House bill effectively renders moot much of the law s incentives for renewable power such as wind and solar power Clean capacity advocates revealed the bill walks back the largest administration venture in clean potency in history Netanyahu links shooting of Israeli Embassy staffers to antisemitism and Oct attacks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the shooting of two of his country s embassy staff in Washington D C was a horrific act of antisemitic violence Yaron and Sarah weren t the casualties of a random crime Netanyahu noted The terrorist who cruelly gunned them down did so for one reason and one reason alone he yearned to kill Jews In a video issued by his office Thursday speaking in English he disclosed the two staffers were planning to get engaged during a trip to Jerusalem next week Netanyahu stated the suspect shouted Free Palestine as he was taken away drawing a direct line between the shooting and the Oct attack on Israel This is exactly the same chant we heard on October th Netanyahu concluded the video by saying I especially want to thank President Trump and the American people for their forthright stand with Israel and with the Jewish people Leavitt says Trump signs every legal document In response to questions about former President Joe Biden s use of the autopen to sign specific documents Leavitt revealed that Trump signs any document that has legal implications He signs pretty much every document that is needed for the president s signature with the exception of maybe several letters to children she mentioned But one of Trump s the greater part controversial acts invoking the th-centruy wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport expatriates was something that Trump later claimed he didn t sign I don t know when it was signed because I didn t sign it Trump informed reporters in March Trump and Netanyahu discuss Israel embassy staffer shooting and Iran The two leaders spoke by phone on Thursday following Wednesday evening s shooting that killed two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Washington reception White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated the two leaders also discussed a anticipated deal with Iran to stem its rapidly advancing nuclear undertaking Trump is expected to dispatch special envoy Steve Witkoff to Italy for talks later this week with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi Leavitt commented Trump believes the talks moving along in the right direction Trump administration files motion to end protections for immigrant children in federal custody The Trump administration filed a motion on Thursday to end a guidelines cornerstone that since the s has offered protections to child expatriates in federal custody in a move that likely will be challenged by advocates The protections in place known as the Flores Settlement largely limit to hours the amount of time that child asylum seekers traveling alone or with family and detained by the U S Confines Patrol can be kept in U S Customs and Edge Protection custody They also ensure the children are kept in safe and sanitary conditions The Flores settlement is named for a Salvadoran girl Jenny Flores whose lawsuit alleging widespread mistreatment of children in custody in the s prompted special oversight This is the second time the federal ruling body under Trump has attempted to end the framework In August the first Trump administration urged a judge to dissolve the agreement Its motion eventually was struck down in December by the th U S Circuit Court of Appeals White House condemns judge who revealed US violated court order Leavitt used her press briefing to attack by name the federal judge who ruled that the White House violated a court order on deportations to third countries calling Judge Brian E Murphy in Boston a liberal activist and accusing the jurist of threatening U S diplomatic relationships Judge Brian Murphy is not the secretary of State He is not the secretary of defense or the commander in chief He is a district court judge in Massachusetts He cannot control the foreign approach or the national prevention of the United States of America and to suggest otherwise is being fully absurd Leavitt mentioned Trump to attend Group of Summit next month The president will take part in a gathering in Calgary Canada from June to June with leaders from Canada France Germany Italy Japan the United Kingdom and the United States White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed Trump is saddened and outraged by the shooting deaths of two Israeli embassy staffers White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declared Trump had spoken to Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice will prosecute the alleged gunman to the fullest extent of the law Leavitt declared hatred has no place in the United States of America under Trump She commented the entire White House staff was praying for the casualties friends and families at this unimaginable time The first lady s new audiobook is in her own voice but she didn t narrate it Instead Melania Trump noted Thursday she used artificial intelligence to generate a replica of her voice reading her memoir Melania The -hour-long voiced read was created with equipment from ElevenLabs a startup that has helped other people mimic their own voices when physiological issues rob them of their speech The company s tool also was used to make the audio behind AI robocalls imitating former President Joe Biden that misled voters during the voting process The first lady s embrace of AI for her book comes as her husband has declared he wants to limit regulations on the equipment that could hinder innovation The president and first lady also lately signed the Take It Down Act a measure that imposes penalties for online sexual exploitation including through AI deepfakes Hundreds of state lawmakers urge Congressional leaders to keep hands off Planned Parenthood funding As House Republicans passed their multitrillion-dollar budget bill overnight state lawmakers signed a letter to Congressional leadership urging them not to prohibit Medicaid funds from going to Planned Parenthood and calling the organization an integral and irreplaceable part of the physical condition care system Defunding Planned Parenthood blocks patients from getting the care they need and increases medical care costs for everyone the letter declared Anti-abortion groups have long taken aim at Planned Parenthood s Medicaid funding through a mounting initiative called Defund Planned Parenthood The federal Hyde Amendment already restricts administration funding for greater part abortions and less than of the services Planned Parenthood provides are abortions according to the organization s annual record Contraceptive services and testing and medication for sexually transmitted infections make up the vast majority of its health care It also performs more cancer screening and prevention procedures than abortions according to the review Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff to lead US delegation to next round of nuclear talks with Iran That s according to an American official familiar with the matter who spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity to discuss an upcoming private diplomatic meeting Witkoff and the State Department s director of program planning Michael Anton will attend Friday s talks in Rome that had been broadcasted earlier by Oman s foreign minister whose country has been mediating the talks the official disclosed The talks which will be the fifth round of direct and indirect discussions are expected to be held at the Omani embassy in the Italian capital Matthew Lee The US cabinet will no longer make cents The U S Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop making the coin when those run out a Treasury official validated Thursday The move is expected to produce an immediate annual savings of million in reduced material costs according to the official who spoke on condition of anonymity to preview the news In February President Trump revealed he ordered his administration to cease production of the -cent coin Advocates for ditching the penny cite its high production cost as of now almost cents per penny according to the U S Mint and limited utility Fans of the penny cite its usefulness in charity drives and relative bargain in production costs compared with the nickel which costs almost cents to mint The Wall Street Journal first communicated the news Fatima Hussein Nonprofits sue Justice Department over canceled criminal justice and casualties group grants The five organizations that had grants terminated by the U S Department of Justice in April are suing the department and Attorney General Pam Bondi calling the cancellations unconstitutional and asking that the money be reinstated The lawsuit filed late Wednesday by the Vera Institute of Justice the Center for Children Youth Justice Chinese for Affirmative Action FORCE Detroit and Wellness Materials in Action asks a federal judge to vacate the midstream grant cancellations They ask the court to award class status to the awardees for the more than grants initially worth million that were canceled last month naming both the Office of Justice Programs and its acting agency head as additional defendants Judge blocks Trump administration s mass layoffs at the Instruction Department The federal judge on Thursday blocked Trump s executive order to shut down the Schooling Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs U S District Judge Myong Joun in Boston granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from carrying out two plans informed in March that sought to work toward Trump s goal to dismantle the department It marks a setback to one of the Republican president s campaign promises Read more about Trump s effort to shut down the Mentoring Department Democrats decry Trump s crypto dinner as selling access to the White House The dinner Trump is hosting at his suburban Washington golf club is for top investors in a meme coin controlled by his family Sen Richard Blumenthal a Connecticut Democrat says the dinner means in effect putting a for sale sign on the White House It s auctioning off access Blumenthal explained on a press call The senator declared those attending Thursday night s dinner don t have to file any federal paperwork despite enriching the Trump Organization because crypto currency isn t regulated like traditional campaign donations Democratic Rep Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts mentioned during a contentious House hearing earlier this month Never in American history has a sitting president so blatantly violated the ethics laws United Arab Emirates condemns fatal shooting of Israeli Embassy staffers In a announcement the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its condolences and solidarity with the families of the casualties and with the Israeli people over the attack The UAE agreed to normalize relations with Israel in a U S -brokered deal in the first of the so-called Abraham Accords that Israel eventually concluded with four Arab nations Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken with parents of slain embassy staffers Netanyahu advised the families that he shares in their deep sorrow together with the entire Jewish People his office revealed in a report The prime minister also spoke with U S Attorney General Pam Bondi his office revealed US envoy to Israel calls Israel embassy staffer killings an act of terror It is just a horrific tragedy an act of terror and another way in which we have to recognize Jewish people all over the world are being singled out for these kind of horrible attacks U S Ambassador Mike Huckabee commented in an interview on Fox Friends Huckabee went on to push back against critics of Israel s execution of the war in Gaza blaming Hamas for the war dragging on We ve got a lot of ignorant idiotic people who don t seem to understand the difference between right and wrong Huckabee reported It shouldn t be that complicated The crypto industry saw Trump as a champion Particular now fear he s putting personal profits first It seems like a triumph for a cryptocurrency industry that has long sought mainstream acceptance Top investors in one of President Trump s crypto projects invited to dine with him at his luxury golf club in Northern Virginia on the heels of the Senate advancing key pro-crypto act and while bitcoin prices soar But Thursday night s dinner for the biggest investors in the TRUMP meme coin has raised uncomfortable questions about potentially shadowy buyers using the anonymity of the internet to buy access to the president While Democrats charge that Trump is using the power of the presidency to boost profits for his family business even specific pro-Trump crypto enthusiasts worry that the president s push into meme coins isn t helping their efforts to establish the credibility stability and legitimacy they had thought his administration would bring to their businesses Read more about Trump and crypto Trump celebrates passage of his BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL The president in his morning social media posting praised House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican leadership for getting his major tax bill through the lower chamber Now he s pushing Senate Republicans to get moving and notch a political win on Democrats it s time for our friends in the United States Senate to get to work and send this Bill to my desk AS SOON AS ATTAINABLE Trump declared There is no time to waste The Democrats have lost control of themselves and are aimlessly wandering around showing no confidence grit or determination Planned Parenthood says barring it from Medicaid funding could have a major impact The group says a provision barring it from receiving Medicaid funds could lead to one-third of its fitness centers closing Planned Parenthood noted about centers are at liability majority of them in states where abortion is legal The nation s largest abortion provider also offers other wellness services including birth control and cancer screening State Medicaid money covers abortion in particular states but not others We re in a fight for survival not just for Planned Parenthood but for the ability of everyone to get high-quality non-judgmental vitality care Planned Parenthood President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson explained in a comment Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America celebrated the provision saying in a comment Congress took a big step toward stopping taxpayer funding of the Big Abortion industry Institute of Peace reclaims its headquarters after court win over Musk s cost-cutting squad The U S Institute of Peace retook control of its headquarters Wednesday two days after a federal judge explained the firing of its board and employees by Elon Musk s Department of Authorities Efficiency was illegal The institute s acting president George Moose entered the organization s headquarters with private shield and the institute s outside attorney for the first time since being escorted off the premises during the DOGE takeover Moose and bulk of the institute s board were fired in March part of the mass slashing of the federal workforce spearheaded by Musk The institute and countless of its board members filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration soon after seeking to prevent their removal and stop DOGE from taking over its operations U S District Court Judge Beryl A Howell s opinion on Monday reversed DOGE s actions Speaking after a short examination of the headquarters Moose revealed all appeared to be in order Read more about USIP Here s what s inside the tax bill Republicans made one last round of revisions before the bill reached the House floor boosting the state and local tax deduction to win over centrists and speeding up the work requirements in Medicaid to win over those who didn t believe the bill did enough to curb spending Here s a look at what s in the legislative package which is expected to undergo more changes when it goes to the Senate Read more about what s inside the bill House Republicans pass Trump s big bill of tax breaks and undertaking cuts after all-night session House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package with Speaker Mike Johnson defying the skeptics and unifying his ranks to muscle Trump s priority bill to approval Thursday With last-minute concessions and stark warnings from Trump the Republican holdouts largely dropped their opposition to salvage the One Big Beautiful Bill that s central to the GOP agenda The House launched debate before midnight and by dawn the vote was called - with Democrats staunchly opposed It next goes to the Senate To put it solely this bill gets Americans back to winning again mentioned Johnson R-La The outcome caps an intense time on Capitol Hill with days of private negotiations and constituents committee hearings multiple happening back-to-back around-the-clock Republicans insisted their sprawling -page-plus package was what voters sent them to Congress and Trump to the White House to accomplish They believe it will be rocket fuel as one put it during debate for the uneasy U S market system Read more about the passage of the bill in the House Source