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Trump’s administration is exploring ways to detain U.S. citizens involved in criminal activity and send them to Salvadoran prisons. And, Trump’s tariffs lead Americans to splurge before they hit. (Image credit: Win McNamee)

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The move would be a major escalation of the Trump administration’s attempts to choke off federal money and support for the leading research university.

In a hint of a shift in strategy, some of the country’s most powerful institutions have started choosing to resist.

“I feel like I’m getting dumber.” The confession hung in the air between us, startling in its honesty. My sister—a college senior at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and one of the most hard-working people I know—wasn’t joking. We were sitting

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. An eternity stretches between now and any real moves in the Democratic Party’s next presidential nominating contest.

No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, it’s hard to ignore that the world’s most intractable problems have started to overwhelm: inflation remains stubbornly high, contagious diseases continue to spread, racial and religious minorities still face latent discrimination,

American winemakers tell us why tariffs hurt their industry. (Image credit: Justin Sullivan)

Donald Trump was up early on Thursday morning, launching a fresh attack on Fed chair Jerome Powell for ignoring his demand to lower interest rates while threatening him with termination. In apparent reaction to reports that the European Central Bank

Nora Aunor, considered by many Filipinos as their country’s greatest actor and singer, has died aged 71, the government and her family said Thursday. Proclaimed a “National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts” by the Philippines in 2022, the once