Trump Administration

A graduate student at the University of Minnesota was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Thursday at an off-campus residence, the school said in a statement, NBC News reported.

Crowds protesting billionaire Elon Musk’s purge of the U.S. government under President Donald Trump began amassing outside Tesla dealerships throughout the U.S. and in some cities in Europe on Saturday.

President Donald Trump in an interview with NBC News on Saturday said that he would not fire anyone involved in the Signal group chat where attack plans were inadvertently divulged to a journalist ahead of a military strike, and later added he “couldn’t care less” if automakers raised prices due to new tariffs.

People with ties to American universities, most of whom have shown support for pro-Palestinian causes, have been detained in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.

The Trump administration has reportedly sent letters to European companies asking them to comply with a U.S. executive order banning DEI initiatives.

In a high-level deportation fight in Newark, the Trump administration has urged a federal judge to move the case of Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana. The Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist is asking to be freed from a Louisiana detention center, but his lawyers want a New Jersey judge to decide. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

Columbia University said Friday its interim president, Katrina A. Armstrong, is stepping aside, a week after the university struck a deal with the Trump administration to negotiate its federal funding, NBC News reported.

Dave Portnoy, a Trump supporter and the founder of Barstool Sports, went viral for his blistering critique of the administration’s group chat debacle.

In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread in poultry flocks unchecked. Scientists say that’s risky because it gives the virus more opportunities to replicate, increasing the chance it could change to spread easily among humans.

The sudden implosion of Stefanik’s nomination came as a surprise to many Republicans on Capitol Hill.

The Trump administration is looking to continue deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act.

More than two dozen members of Congress demanded answers for Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained by ICE earlier this week.

Vice President JD Vance argued on Friday that Greenlanders would be better off being under the protection of the U.S. than under Denmark.

Housing’s yearslong winter might be showing the first hints of thaw, according to new data from the NBC News Home Buyer Index.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday the State Department has revoked 300 or more student visas, as the White House increasingly targets foreign-born students whose whose main transgression seems to be activism, NBC News reported.

Federal prosecutors have opened compliance review investigations into admissions policies at UCLA and UC Irvine.

Donald Trump signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”

Trump’s frustration is two-fold, according to two Republican sources with knowledge of the conversations.

The episode, which has not been previously reported, raises questions about unequal punishment for inadvertent leakers in the Trump administration.

Officials have offered a variety of comments on the fact that a journalist was accidentally included in a high-level chat about U.S. military plans.