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President Trump kicked off his second term with a dramatic crackdown on immigration. Critics call those moves cruel and unnecessary. But many of Trump’s supporters are applauding these early steps. (Image credit: Leah Millis)

McMahon has a limited background in education, and a long career as a business executive. She’d be stepping into an agency the president hopes to dissolve. (Image credit: Anna Moneymaker)

At the center of legal challenges against Trump’s executive actions is whether he’s telling federal agencies to violate a key legal standard established nearly 80 years ago. (Image credit: Mandel Ngan)

The exchanges are part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. (Image credit: Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Melania Trump’s ‘soft power’ on display in the White House: See the photos  Fox News

While welcoming the conviction of an Israel Defense Forces reservist who brutalized Palestinian prisoners at the notorious Sde Teiman torture prison, an Israeli advocacy group on Thursday decried the perpetrator’s seven-month sentence as an affront to justice. The IDF said

Judge bars Trump from putting 2,700 additional USAID workers on leave  The Washington Post Trump and Musk Bring Vast Aid Machinery to a Halt in Africa  The New York Times Inside USAID’s undoing  POLITICO Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from gutting USAid –

Trump says he’s ending Biden’s classified intelligence briefings in payback move  The Associated Press ‘JOE, YOU’RE FIRED’: President Trump revokes Biden’s security clearance, intel briefings  Fox News Trump Says He Revoked Joe Biden’s Security Clearance  The Wall Street Journal Hamas set to release

Small Plane With 10 Dead Found Crashed in Alaska  The New York Times Crews rush to recover commuter plane found crashed on Alaska sea ice before expected snow and wind  Yahoo! Voices Wreckage of Missing Passenger Plane in Alaska Found  The Wall Street

19 states sue Trump, Treasury to halt DOGE access  POLITICO Judge temporarily blocks Musk’s ‘Doge’ team from accessing treasury records  The Guardian Federal judge blocks Elon Musk-led DOGE from accessing treasury records  The Times of India States Say in Lawsuit That Donald Trump