Trump places 25 percent tariff on cars made outside the US. Here’s how it unfolded.

By the Associated Press

Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said the young trespasser squeezed through the fence on the North Lawn at around 6:30 p.m., about an hour after Trump announced planned auto tariffs from the Oval Office.

“Officers quickly reunited the child with their parents without incident,” Guglielmi said in a social media post.

Video posted on social media shows an armed officer carrying a young child wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt across the lawn before handing off the child to another officer.

Such intrusions have happened before. In April 2023, a toddler squeezed through the metal fencing, also on the North Lawn, and was later reunited with his parents, who were briefly questioned.

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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee joined in the chorus criticizing Trump’s executive order that threatens to unravel the nation’s elections, calling it “brazen” and an unconstitutional overreach.

“America was founded on the belief of government by the people, for the people — decided by fair and free elections,” they said. “Donald Trump and DOGE, in an attempt to rationalize their repeatedly debunked conspiracy theories, now want to suppress the vote of military members serving overseas, married women who have changed their names, and millions of Americans who vote by mail. This Executive Order is reckless, dangerous, and illegal.

By the Associated Press

A federal judge accused the Justice Department on Wednesday of attacking her character in an effort to undermine the integrity of the judicial system, forcefully pushing back against the Trump administration’s criticism of the courts for rulings that blocked parts of the president’s agenda.

US District Judge Beryl Howell’s comments came in an order denying the Justice Department’s bid to remove her from a case over an executive order punishing a prominent law firm. The Trump administration had asked for the case to be moved to another judge in Washington’s federal court, accusing Howell of demonstrating “a pattern of hostility” toward the Republican president.

“When the US Department of Justice engages in this rhetorical strategy of ad hominem attack, the stakes become much larger than only the reputation of the targeted federal judge,” wrote Howell, who was appointed to the federal bench by Democratic President Barack Obama.

“This strategy is designed to impugn the integrity of the federal judicial system and blame any loss on the decision-maker rather than fallacies in the substantive legal arguments presented.”

By the Associated Press

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he needs to see the details of Trump’s executive order before taking retaliatory measures. He called it unjustified and said he will leave the election campaign to go to Ottawa on Thursday to chair his special Cabinet committee on US relations.

Carney earlier announced a CA$2 billion ($1.4 billion) “strategic response fund” that will protect Canadian auto jobs affected by Trump’s tariffs.

Autos are Canada’s second largest export, and Carney noted it employs 125,000 Canadians directly and almost another 500,000 in related industries. Carney says it is appropriate that he and Trump speak on the phone. The two have not spoken since Carney was sworn in March 14.

By the Associated Press

The Associated Press is returning to a Washington courtroom Thursday to ask a judge to restore its full access to presidential events. That’s weeks after the White House retaliated against the news outlet last month for not following President Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico.

In a previous hearing last month, US District Court Judge Trevor N. McFadden refused the AP’s request for an injunction to stop the White House from barring reporters and photographers from events in the Oval Office and Air Force One. He urged the Trump administration to reconsider its ban before Thursday’s hearing. It hasn’t.

The AP has said it needs to take a stand against Trump’s team for punishing a news organization for using speech that it doesn’t like. The news outlet said it would still refer to the Gulf of Mexico in its style guidance to clients around the world, while also noting that Trump has renamed it the Gulf of America. The White House said it has the right to decide who gets to question the president.

“For anyone who thinks the Associated Press’s lawsuit against President Trump’s White House is about the name of a body of water, think bigger,” Julie Pace, the AP’s executive editor, wrote in an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal. “It’s really about whether the government can control what you say.”

The president has dismissed the AP as a group of “radical left lunatics” and said that “we’re going to keep them out until such time as they agree that it’s the Gulf of America.”

By the Associated Press

Election officials, state attorneys general and legal experts say Trump’s executive order seeking to reshape election processes throughout the US will likely face legal challenges for violating the Constitution.

Tuesday’s executive order demands sweeping changes for how Americans can register to vote and when they can cast their ballots. But the Constitution leaves it to states to determine the “times, places and manner” of how elections are run.

The president’s order also issues directives to the independent Election Assistance Commission, which election law experts say he doesn’t have the authority to do.

A day after the order was issued, several voting rights groups and state attorneys generals already are hinting they plan to challenge it in court.

By the Associated Press

The Social Security Administration is partially backtracking on a plan that would require all new and existing beneficiaries to travel to an agency field office to verify their identity.

The administration said people applying for Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare or Supplemental Security Income who are not able to use the agency’s online portal can complete their claim entirely over the phone instead of in person. Other applicants will still be required to verify their identities at a field office.

The changes will apply to all beneficiaries beginning April 14, instead of the previously announced date of March 31.

“We have listened to our customers, Congress, advocates, and others, and we are updating our policy to provide better customer service to the country’s most vulnerable populations,” Lee Dudek, acting commissioner of Social Security, said in a statement.

By the Associated Press

North Carolina’s state government health agency says the “abrupt and immediate termination” of several federal grants by the Trump administration will result in the loss of more than 80 positions and over $100 million in funding.

The Department of Health and Human Services, which has more than 18,000 employees, learned of the grant terminations on Tuesday, a spokesperson said Wednesday.

The agency said the lost funding is related to several work areas, including immunization efforts, infectious disease monitoring, behavioral health and substance use disorder services. Local health and social service offices, universities and hospitals that complete grant-related work also are affected.

Some department vendors are being asked to pause work until more information is provided by the federal government, the state agency said.

By the Associated Press

Trump grumbled about Democratic scrutiny over his national security team using the Signal app to plan an attack on Houthis in Yemen. The president said the criticism and media coverage was distracting from the successful operation that his team conducted on militants that have wreaked havoc in the Red Sea.

“I think it’s all a witch hunt,” Trump said.

Trump said he was not bothered by calls from Sen. Roger Wicker, the Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Jack Reed, the committee’s top Democrat, for an expedited inspector general investigation into the use of Signal by the national security team.

Trump said he didn’t know if classified information was shared by his team on the app.

By the Associated Press

The vice president’s visit to the Marine Corps base at Quantico included serving and eating lunch with some Marines and a trip to the shooting range.

Vance spent about 40 minutes at the range. He fired several weapons and flew a drone.

By the Associated Press

Trump said he would consider a reduction in tariffs on China if they were able to reach a deal on TikTok.

“Sounds like something I’d do,” he said.

Legislation signed into law by then-President Joe Biden set a deadline for forcing the sale of the social media platform. Trump has extended the deadline and suggested he could do so again.

By the Associated Press

Trump says he is placing 25% tariffs on auto imports, a move that the White House claims would foster domestic manufacturing but could also put a financial squeeze on automakers that depend on global supply chains.

“This will continue to spur growth,” Trump told reporters. “We’ll effectively be charging a 25% tariff.”

The tariffs could be complicated as even U.S. automakers source their components from around the world, meaning that they could face higher costs and lower sales. Shares in General Motors have fallen roughly 3% in Wednesday afternoon trading. Ford’s stock was up slightly. Shares in Stellantis, the owner of Jeep and Chrysler, have dropped nearly 4%.

By the Associated Press

Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has called for dismantling and defunding the nation’s public broadcast system following a contentious public hearing.

“We believe that you all can hate us on your own dime,” said Taylor Greene, of Georgia.

The leaders of PBS and NPR appeared before the committee as congressional Republicans and Trump have roughly half a billion dollars in public funding for them in their sight.

Republicans complain of left-wing bias in the news and programming. Democrats mocked the hearing as shameful considering other issues, as the broadcast company leaders tried to explain what they delivered for taxpayers.

By the Associated Press

He recognized Susie Wiles, the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff, as “the most powerful woman in the world,” and he said Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to be press secretary, was “knocking them dead.”

Trump mentioned “legends” like Harriet Tubman and Amelia Earhart and recognized many women lawmakers at the event. When he got to Senator Joni Ernst, of Iowa, Trump said, “I owe you a call. I’ll call you.”

By Alyssa Vega, Globe Staff

President Trump’s top intelligence officials, who used an encrypted messaging app to discuss military plans and inadvertently included a journalist in the chat, have doubled down on claims they did not share classified information and have sought to downplay the security breach in the wake of The Atlantic’s reporting.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth repeated claims that nothing “classified” was shared in a Signal group chat about military strikes on Yemen.

Hegseth’s post on X came after The Atlantic earlier Wednesday published the full transcript from the group text chain, in which The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added, and soon after Trump intelligence officials testified before a House committee on global security threats.

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By the Associated Press

Near the end of a White House event for Women’s History Month, Trump expressed satisfaction at how his pressure campaign on colleges and law firms was working.

“You see what we’re doing with the colleges, and they’re all bending and saying ‘Sir, thank you very much, we appreciate it,‘” Trump said.

He also mentioned “law firms that have been so horrible.”

“They’re just saying, ‘Where do I sign?‘” Trump said. “Nobody can believe it.”

Columbia University and the law firm Paul Weiss agreed to make changes under pressure from the Trump administration.

By the Associated Press

A federal appeals court has refused to lift an order barring the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law.

A split three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a March 15 order temporarily prohibiting deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

Invoking the law for the first time since World War II, the Trump administration deported hundreds of people under a presidential proclamation calling the Tren de Aragua gang an invading force.

The Justice Department appealed after US District Judge James Boasberg blocked more deportations and ordered planeloads of Venezuelan immigrants to return to the US That did not happen.

Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of five Venezuelan noncitizens who were being held in Texas.

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By the Associated Press

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Trump’s trade war “is hurting American consumers and workers and it will hurt more.”

American consumer confidence is at a multi-year low and US -Canadian kinship is under more strain than ever before, Carney said while campaigning in Windsor, Ontario ahead of Canada’s April 28 election.

Trump put 25 percent tariffs on Canada’s steel and aluminum and is threatening to impose sweeping tariffs on all Canadian products on April 2.

But America will never own Canada, Carney said: “It will never ever happen because we just don’t look out for ourselves we look out for each other.”

By the Associated Press

“Someone made a big mistake and added a journalist” to the Signal group chat with the most senior Trump officials, Marco Rubio said. “Nothing against journalists, but you aren’t supposed to be on that thing.”

Speaking alongside Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness during his tour of the Caribbean, Rubio said he’s been assured by the Pentagon that the group chat’s details about attacking Houthis in Yemen weren’t classified.

“It didn’t put in danger anyone’s life or the mission. There was no intelligence information,” Rubio said. “There was no war plans on there. This was a sort of description of what we could inform our counterparts around the world when the time came to do so.”

By the Associated Press

When Alyssa Myatt’s husband served on an aircraft carrier last year, she and other U.S. Navy spouses had to follow strict security protocols that meant driving to the ship’s home port just to learn that its deployment was being extended.

“It was not information that they would send in an email or share over the phone,” Myatt said. “They wouldn’t even stream it. You had to physically come and be present in a location with them to hear the information.”

Now Myatt is among some military spouses and veterans questioning the White House’s own adherence to security safeguards after President Donald Trump’s national security adviser added a journalist to a group chat about striking Houthi rebels in Yemen.

“‘Loose lips sink ships’ is a very real saying,” Myatt said of the World War II-era warning. Her husband served on the USS Eisenhower as the Navy shot down Houthi-launched missiles in the Red Sea.

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By the Associated Press

Vice President JD Vance offered a good excuse after he arrived hours behind schedule.

“I was in the Oval Office talking to the president and I stood up and I said, ‘Sir, I realize we’re in the middle of something but the Marines at Quantico are waiting on me.‘”

He asked the president for a message for the Marines.

“The president of the United States said he wanted me to tell you two things. First of all, that he loves you and, second of all, that he’s proud of you,” Vance said.

Vance is the first Marine Corps veteran to become vice president. He enlisted after graduating from high school in Ohio and served four years, including a tour in Iraq.

By the Associated Press

The Education Department says applications for income-driven repayment plans are available online again for student loan borrowers.

The applications were taken down in response to a February court ruling that blocked some Biden-era programs. The materials’ removal had complicated the renewal process for borrowers already enrolled in other repayment plans.

The department said Wednesday that revisions to the form were necessary to comply with the court ruling.

The American Federation of Teachers had filed a lawsuit seeking to force the department to accept and process applications for the repayment plans.

By the Associated Press

Senate Democrats said Frank Bisignano should withdraw his nomination to lead the Social Security Administration.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer compared appointing Bisignano to “hiring an arsonist to run the fire station.”

“And what is the intent? Kill Social Security — by strangling, by not letting it work, by making it so that it’s impossible for people to get their help and their benefits,” Schumer said.

Bisignano, a Wall Street veteran and self described “DOGE person,” faced tough questions at his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday.

By the Associated Press

“I would characterize this messaging thread as a policy discussion, a sensitive policy discussion amongst high level cabinet officials and senior staff,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a briefing Wednesday.

Asked to square how classified information wasn’t shared, considering launch times and weapon systems were included, Leavitt cited a social media post by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that said the information wasn’t classified.

She also assailed The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg — mistakenly added to the thread by the national security adviser — as an “anti-Trump sensationalist reporter.”

“Do you trust the secretary of defense — who was nominated for this role, voted by the United States Senate into this role, who has served in combat, honorably served our nation in uniform — or do you trust Jeffrey Goldberg?” she asked.

By the Associated Press

Committee chairman Tom Cotton said “I don’t think so” when asked Wednesday if his panel has more work to do in terms of asking intelligence leaders about the inclusion of a reporter in a group text chain about military plans.

“What I think is most important here is not the way this information was communicated, but the action that was taken to actually attack the Yemen rebels who have been targeting our sailors and international shipping Saudi Arabia for more than a year,” Cotton said.

Cotton’s fellow Senate Republican, Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, said Wednesday that he and his committee’s ranking Democrat are requesting an Inspector General investigation and a classified briefing on the use of Signal by top national security officials.

By the Associated Press

The White House claims the tariffs will foster domestic manufacturing.

It also could put a financial squeeze on automakers that depend on global supply chains.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she would leave it to the president to flesh out his plans to tax foreign-made autos and parts, which could be complicated as even US automakers source their components from around the world.

Shares in General Motors have fallen roughly 1.7 percent in Wednesday afternoon trading. Ford’s stock was down roughly 1.5 percent.

By the Associated Press

The Georgia congresswoman made her declaration after her contentious House Oversight committee hearing featuring the leaders of PBS and NPR.

Greene said the systems “can hate us on your own dime.”

Republicans on the committee repeatedly attacked the public broadcasting outlets for what they called biased reporting. Trump also called for ending federal funding in what represents the most serious threat to the system in many years.

The leaders acknowledged some mistakes — NPR chief Katharine Maher said they should have offered more coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop — but said they work hard to present viewpoints of all Americans.

By the Associated Press

The Department of Homeland Security says in a post on X that Kristi Noem will discuss how the US can expand deportation flights of “violent criminals” to the Central American nation.

Noem is visiting a prison where Venezuelans removed from the US are being held. The Trump administration has acknowledged that many do not have criminal records, but alleges that they are members of the Tren de Aragua gang. It has not identified who was deported or given any evidence that they’re gang members.

She’ll also meet with President Nayib Bukele. He agreed to imprison the deportees at the administration’s request.

By the Associated Press

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is on Capitol Hill, meeting privately with Republican senators at their daily lunch. He declined to answer questions as he joined the meeting behind closed doors off the Senate chamber.

By the Associated Press

US District Judge James Bredar is briefly extending a temporary order requiring the Trump administration to bring back federal workers who were fired as part of a dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce.

During a hearing in Baltimore on Wednesday, the judge said he is reluctant to issue a sweeping national preliminary injunction in the case. The government is appealing Bredar’s earlier decision to require the federal government to reinstate more than 24,000 federal workers.

His ruling came in a lawsuit filed by 19 states and the District of Columbia. They contend the Trump administration blindsided them with the layoffs, which could have devastating consequences for their state finances.

By the Associated Press

The so-called X-date is when the country runs short of money to pay its bills.

Without another deal between lawmakers and the White House, the government will exhaust the accounting maneuvers used to stretch existing funds by August, the Congressional Budget Office reported Wednesday.

The House added $4 trillion to the debt ceiling in the Republican budget plan, which sets the stage for extending tax cuts passed in Trump’s first term. Whether the Republican-led Senate will agree remains unclear.

“Democrats are ready to work across the aisle to prevent a catastrophic default. But Republicans must work with us to protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid,” said Rep. Brendan Boyle, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee.

By the Associated Press

Sen. Roger Wicker said he and Sen. Jack Reed, the committee’s top Democrat, will send a letter to the Trump administration requesting an Inspector General investigation into the use of Signal by top national security officials to discuss military plans.

Wicker is also calling for a classified Senate briefing from a top national security official and verification that The Atlantic published an accurate transcript of the Signal chat.

Wicker’s move is notable given the Trump administration’s defiance. Most Republicans seem content to allow the episode to blow over.

Asked what the consequences for Hegseth should be, Wicker said, “Let’s see.”

He added that the administration — “right up to the president” — should take a conciliatory approach to the episode.

By the Associated Press

Wednesday’s filing seeks approval to go ahead with cuts of hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training.

A federal judge in Boston temporarily blocked the cuts, finding they were already impacting a nationwide teacher shortage. Eight Democratic-led states challenged Trump’s efforts to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs as his administration follows his executive order calling for the dismantling of the Education Department.

The Justice Department has filed three other emergency appeals of court rulings that blocked administration actions.

The Supreme Court has yet to rule on whether to narrow nationwide holds on executive actions as Trump seeks to restrict birthright citizenship. Also pending is an appeal to halt an order requiring the rehiring of thousands of federal workers.

By the Associated Press

The questioning of John Ratcliffe descended into yelling as a California Democrat asked the CIA director whether Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was drinking when he used the Signal app to text his plans for attacking Houthis in Yemen.

“I think that’s an offensive line of questioning,” Ratcliffe told Rep. Jimmy Gomez. “The answer is no.”

Ratcliffe and Gomez then began shouting over each other as Gomez tried to follow up.

“We want to know if his performance is compromised,” Gomez said.

By the Associated Press

“It is completely outrageous to me that administration officials come before us today with impunity, no acceptance of responsibility,” said Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado. He said Pete Hegseth “must resign immediately. There can be no fixes, there can be no corrections until there is accountability.”

Other Democrats on House Intelligence Committee rejected assertions by Gabbard and Ratcliffe that no classified material was included in the chat. They pointed chat messages released by The Atlantic on Wednesday as evidence the exposure could have jeopardized the mission’s success or endangered US service members’ lives.

“This is classified information. It’s a weapon system, as well as a sequence of strikes, as well as details of the operations,” said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois. “He needs to resign immediately.”

By the Associated Press

Asked if he thinks they’re “eager” to become American citizens, Trump said he didn’t know “but I think we have to do it, and we have to convince them.”

Trump repeated in an interview Wednesday on “The Vince Show” that the US needs control of Greenland for national security reasons. His pronouncements have irked residents of the semi-autonomous Danish territory.

Vance and his wife, Usha, are scheduled Friday to visit a US military base on the Arctic island.

By the Associated Press

Now the chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee, the Georgia Republican summoned the leaders of PBS and NPR to a hearing, demanding to know why taxpayers funded what she considers biased news resembling content from communist China.

Trump suggested Tuesday that public funding for PBS and NPR be cut off.

NPR chief Katherine Maher says the radio network is making progress in presenting different viewpoints on the air.

By the Associated Press

Gabbard acknowledged before the House Intelligence Committee that the texts contained “candid and sensitive” discussions but said again that no classified information was included.

“It was a mistake that a reporter was inadvertently added,” Gabbard said.

National security adviser Mike Waltz has taken responsibility for the addition of The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief to the chat, which also included the defense secretary, the vice president and other top Trump administration officials.

Democrats blasted it as a sloppy mistake that could have put American service members at risk.

Texts released by The Atlantic on Wednesday referred to the timing of strikes and the types of weaponry involved.

By the Associated Press

Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe face more questioning about how Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a group chat in which they discussed American military strikes in Yemen.

Gabbard, Ratcliffe, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Michael Waltz and other top national security officials were on the chat, which included the times of warplane launches and other actions.

Waltz has taken responsibility. Trump called it “a glitch.” Democrats said it was an irresponsible security lapse that could require resignations.

Republican Rep. Rick Crawford urged his fellow House Intelligence Committee members not to focus on the Signal chat leak during Wednesday’s hearing on global threats.

“It’s my sincere hope that we use this hearing to discuss the many foreign threats facing our nation,” Crawford said in opening remarks.

By the Associated Press

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya passed a 53-47 party-line vote to become director of the the National Institutes of Health.

The Stanford University health economist, an outspoken critic of COVID-19 policies, has vowed to encourage scientific dissent. He now leads the world’s top funder of biomedical research as Trump drastically reduces its funding and workforce.

Dr. Marty Makary won over a handful of Democrats in a 56-44 vote to become commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates drugs, medical devices and food safety.

The Johns Hopkins University researcher also has contrarian views, and like the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has criticized food additives, ultraprocessed foods and the overprescribing of drugs.

By the Associated Press

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and top Senate Democrats on the national security committees want answers from President Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other officials as the Signal app fallout deepens, questioning whether the actions violate the Espionage Act.

“We write to you with extreme alarm about the astonishingly poor judgment shown by your Cabinet and national security advisors,” the senators wrote in a letter to the president.

“Our committees have serious questions,” they wrote, detailing a 10-part probing line of inquiry.

By the Associated Press

The legislature voted overwhelmingly in favor after Democratic Gov. Matt Meyer urged quick passage amid pressure from corporate leaders about court precedents governing conflicts of interest.

Elon Musk encouraged a “Dexit” after Tesla shareholder complaints led a judge to invalidate his compensation package potentially worth more than $55 billion.

Critics warned it will harm investors, pensioners and middle-class savers by making it harder to hold corporate insiders accountable for violating their fiduciary duties.

Delaware is the legal home of more than 2 million corporate entities, including two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies. State Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton warned against “cooking that golden goose.”

By the Associated Press

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin says Tuesday night’s victory means state House Democrats “can stand up to President Trump’s mayhem in Washington.”

Democrat Dan Goughnour handily won the special election, keeping majority control by a single seat, 102-101. He beat Republican Chuck Davis in the Pittsburgh-area district. This removes a potential barrier to Gov. Josh Shapiro, a rising star among Democrats who is seen as a potential 2028 presidential candidate.

Martin’s statement says the victory will block efforts to weaken Shapiro’s authority and “continue to expand job opportunities, strengthen schools and create safe communities in Pennsylvania.”

By the Associated Press

The Atlantic released the entire Signal chat between Trump senior national security officials on Wednesday, showing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact times of war plane launches through the unclassified communications app — before the men and women flying those attacks on behalf of the United States were airborne.

The revelation follows two intense days where Trump’s senior most cabinet members of his intelligence and defense agencies have squirmed to explain how details — which current and former US officials have said would have been classified — wound up on an unclassified Signal chat that included Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg.

Hegseth has refused to say whether he posted classified information onto Signal. He is traveling in the Indo-Pacific and to date has only said he did not reveal “war plans.”

By the Associated Press

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold a briefing, and in the afternoon, the president will participate in a Women’s History Month event at the White House.

By the Associated Press

When President Trump canceled $400 million in funding to Columbia University over its handling of student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, much of the financial pain fell on researchers a train ride away from the school’s campus, working on things like curing cancer and studying COVID-19’s impact on children.

The urgency of salvaging ongoing research projects at the university’s labs and world-renowned medical center was one factor in Columbia’s decision last week to bow to the Republican administration’s unprecedented demands for changes in university policy as a condition of getting funding restored.

The university’s decision to accede to nearly all of the Trump administration’s demands outraged some faculty members, who say Columbia has sacrificed academic freedom. The American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers, representing members of Columbia’s faculty, filed a lawsuit Tuesday saying the funding revocation violated free speech laws.

Scientific and medical researchers are appalled that their work was drawn into the debate to begin with.

By the Associated Press

Greenland and Denmark appeared cautiously relieved early Wednesday by the news that Vance and his wife are changing their itinerary for their visit to Greenland Friday, reducing the likelihood that they will cross paths with residents angered by the Trump administration’s attempts to annex the vast Arctic island, a semi-autonomous Danish territory.

The couple will now visit the US Space Force outpost at Pituffik, on the northwest coast of Greenland, instead of Usha Vance’s previously announced solo trip to the Avannaata Qimussersu dogsled race in Sisimiut.

The vice president’s decision to visit a US military base in Greenland has removed the risk of violating potential diplomatic taboos by sending a delegation to another country without an official invitation. But Vance has also criticized longstanding European allies for relying on military support from the United States, openly antagonizing partners in ways that have generated concerns about the reliability of the U.S.

By the Associated Press

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with the so-called “Big 6″ group at US Treasury Tuesday.

The group includes White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, House Majority Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith.

A Treasury readout of the meeting states that the group discussed permanently extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

“I am dedicated to working with Congress in making permanent President Trump’s historic tax cuts and reviving the American dream,” Bessent said in a statement. “Today’s productive meeting gives me confidence that a swift timeframe is achievable.”

By the Associated Press

President Trump’s executive order seeking broad changes to how elections are run in the US is vast in scope and holds the potential to reorder the voting landscape across the country, even as it faces almost certain litigation.

He wants to require voters to show proof that they are US citizens before they can register for federal elections, count only mail or absentee ballots received by Election Day, set new rules for voting equipment and prohibit non-US citizens from being able to donate in certain elections.

A basic question underlying the sweeping actions he signed Tuesday: Can he do it, given that the Constitution gives wide leeway to the states to develop their own election procedures? Here are some of the main points of the executive order and questions it raises.

By the Associated Press

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio “requested Turkey’s support for peace in Ukraine” during his first meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, the State Department said late Tuesday.

Fidan is on a two-day trip to Washington, where he is seeking to shore up Turkey-US ties that became increasingly frayed under Joe Biden’s presidency. The visit follows a telephone call between the countries’ presidents that Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff described as “transformational.”

Turkey has maintained close ties with Russia and Ukraine during the three-year war and has previously offered to mediate talks. It hosted unsuccessful peace talks in 2022. Under the Biden administration, Ankara’s ongoing trade with Russia drew repeated warnings from Washington.

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By the Associated Press

Weaning Caribbean countries from their dependence on Venezuelan oil and combating illegal immigration will top Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s tour of three Caribbean nations this week, a visit that comes as the Trump administration increasingly focuses its attention on the Western Hemisphere.

The State Department said Rubio will push for the region to diversify their energy supplies when he visits Jamaica, Guyana, and Suriname starting Wednesday, just days after President Trump announced new sanctions on Venezuelan oil exports and threatened tariffs on all goods imported into the United States by other countries that buy oil from Venezuela.

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By the Associated Press

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday will visit the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang have been held since their removal from the US.

Noem’s trip to the prison — where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside — comes as the Trump administration seeks to show it is deporting people it describes as the “worst of the worst.”

Since taking office, Noem has often been front and center in efforts to highlight the immigration crackdown. She took part in immigration enforcement operations, rode horses with Border Patrol agents and was the face of a television campaign warning people in the country illegally to self-deport.

Noem’s Wednesday visit is part of a three-day trip. She’ll also travel to Colombia and Mexico.

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By the Associated Press

President Trump’s top intelligence officials will brief House lawmakers Wednesday on global threats facing the US — though they’ll likely be questioned again over their use of a group text to discuss plans for military strikes in Yemen.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and FBI Director Kash Patel are among those who were asked to testify before the House Intelligence Committee as part of its annual review of threats facing the US.

At a similar hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Gabbard briefed lawmakers on her office’s threat assessment, noting that China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea continue to pose security challenges to the US, as do drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations.

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