Janna Brancolini

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Daly |Michael Black |Janna Brancolini |Kenneal Patterson

The Trump administration’s five-page extortion letter threatening to withhold federal funding for Harvard if the university does not comply with onerous ideological demands was addressed to its president , Dr. Alan Garber. It was also addressed to the most senior member of its board of governors, Penny Pritzker. Pritzker is also widely viewed as the dominant member of the ultra-wealthy Pritzker family that was Donald Trump’s partner in his first big real estate deal in Manhattan back in 1975.

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Janna Brancolini |Yasmeen Hamadeh |Kenneal Patterson

Kristi Noem has threatened to prevent Harvard University from enrolling international students unless it hands over information on all of its student visa holders’ disciplinary records and protest participation. In the latest salvo of President Donald Trump’s war against the Ivy League university, the homeland security secretary “wrote a scathing letter demanding detailed records on Harvard’s foreign student visa holders’ illegal and violent activities,” DHS said Wednesday in press release.

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Leigh McManus |Janna Brancolini |Will Neal

A top Trump administration official said those demanding due process for a wrongly deported Maryland dad might themselves be accused of “aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists.” Appearing on Rob Schmitt Tonight on Newsmax, Donald Trump’s senior director for counterterrorism, Sebastian Gorka, suggested critics of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s incarceration in a Salvadoran megaprison might even be committing a federal crime. He said: “It’s not left and right, It’s not even Republican or Democrat.

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Leigh McManus |Julia Ornedo |Janna Brancolini

A pair of Fox News co-hosts got into a heated argument over the case of a Maryland dad deported in what the Trump administration admitted was an “administrative error.”Jessica Tarlov, The Five’s resident liberal, clashed with Trump acolyte Jeanine Pirro after Pirro offered an impassioned defense of the president’s deportation policy, using Maryland woman Rachel Morin—a hiker killed in 2023 by a fugitive from El Salvador—as an example.

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Janna Brancolini |Catherine Bouris |David Gardner

Stephen Miller lost it while discussing a senator’s planned visit to El Salvador to try to bring home the Maryland dad who was mistakenly deported. Sen. Chris Van Hollen plans to fly to El Salvador on Wednesday to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has been held for more than a month at the country’s nightmarish CECOT mega prison. The Maryland Democrat also hopes to discuss Abrego Garcia’s release with government officials.