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Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP The Supreme Court issued a rebuke of President Donald Trump on Thursday night, upholding a lower court’s ruling ordering the federal government to “facilitate” the return of wrongly deported immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father, was detained and deported to a prison in El […]

Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images Tiffany Trump is pregnant, as her father Donald Trump revealed at a campaign event in October. On Sunday, April 6, Tiffany’s half-sister, Ivanka Trump, threw her a Peter Rabbit–themed baby shower in Miami, which was sweet of her: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ivanka Trump (@ivankatrump) Less

Anadolu via Getty Images The tourist helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon appears to have fallen victim to a well-known hazard known as “mast bumping,” according to aviation experts. Eyewitness video showed the rotors and the body of the helicopter separating in midair. The phenomenon is unique to helicopters with semi-rigid

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images What are you supposed to do, exactly, when the president won’t stop Tasering the economy for fun? As far as the markets go, if you don’t trade stocks or import goods for a living, the conventional wisdom is the same, just delivered in a quieter voice with sweatier pits:

Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Donald Trump’s presidential payback tour rages on, and now it’s personal. It’s one thing to target multibillion-dollar law firms, universities, and media outlets for organizational retribution; those efforts, aimed at stifling and punishing any criticism or dissent, are reprehensible in their own right. But now Trump is

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images They were, in many cases, Donald Trump’s most fervent backers: rich Wall Street types, lawyers at corporate firms, business tycoons, and tech engineers who fervently backed the president by raising and donating many millions of dollars for his election, risking the opprobrium of their fellow moneyed elites. But

Photo: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters For months, Democratic elected officials have been trying to figure out a compelling message on Donald Trump’s agenda that will gratify the grassroots Democratic demand for vocal and united opposition. At the moment, the headlines are full of extremely high-profile turmoil involving Trump’s “Liberation Day” agenda of tariffs and trade warfare. It

Photo: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images In a sudden about-face on Wednesday, Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause of many of his hefty “Liberation Day” tariffs on America’s trading partners, following days of tumult on Wall Street and growing expectations that Trump’s trade war would trigger economic catastrophe. His announcement bolstered a massive but short-lived upswing

Getty Images This afternoon, the verified account of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement department posted on X an infographic about its work. One word very much stood out. ICE enforces 400+ federal laws to ensure public safety and national security.  💻Learn more about our mission: https://t.co/NiwdpaaC7Y pic.twitter.com/gddmkpcHF3 — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov)

Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Tariffs aside, the big story in Washington this week has been the latest stage in the struggle of House and Senate Republicans to get on the same page in moving toward enactment of Donald Trump’s legislative agenda via a monstrously large budget-reconciliation bill. They got stuck in the very first