Edith Olmsted

5 hours ago | newrepublic.com | Edith Olmsted

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, is finally coming back to the United States, where he will face criminal charges alleging that he transported undocumented immigrants around the country, sources told ABC News Friday. The Trump administration repeatedly insisted that there was no way to return Abrego Garcia, even though he had been deported as the result of an “administrative error,” according to one ICE official.

22 hours ago | newrepublic.com | Edith Olmsted

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt went on yet another angry tirade against federal judges who rule against Donald Trump. During an appearance on Fox News Thursday night, Leavitt was asked to respond to a federal judge who blocked the removal of the wife and five children of a man charged in a firebombing attack against peaceful protesters in Boulder, Colorado. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had the family arrested despite having no evidence that they were involved in the attack.

1 day ago | yahoo.com | Edith Olmsted

Elon Musk’s feud with Donald Trump escalated quickly Thursday, when the billionaire former bureaucrat hinted at the president’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender and alleged human trafficker. As Musk and Trump volleyed on social media, attacking each other, the former DOGE czar decided to go nuclear, shortly after the president threatened to cut government contracts with Musk’s many businesses, which have totaled $38 billion. “Time to drop the really big bomb,” Musk wrote.

1 day ago | yahoo.com | Edith Olmsted

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are turning to social media to publicly process their increasingly messy breakup. Musk took to X Thursday to air his big feelings after Trump claimed Musk “knew every aspect of this bill, and he never had a problem until right after he left.” Trump insisted that the billionaire former bureaucrat was only upset because, if passed, the spending bill would remove the electric vehicle mandate that subsidizes Tesla. The infernal tech bro insisted on litigating the breakup.

1 day ago | yahoo.com | Edith Olmsted

Senator John Kennedy tore into Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Thursday over his nonsensical answer on the logic of Donald Trump’s sweeping reciprocal tariff policy. During an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, the Louisiana Republican described his experience questioning Lutnick during a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee the day before. “Well, it’s clear that President Trump listens to Secretary Lutnick, so I spent the time I had trying to figure out where he’s coming from.