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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) likely violated the Constitution by dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), indefinitely blocking DOGE from making further cuts. The ruling requires the Trump administration to restore email and computer access to all USAID employees, including those on administrative leave. However, it does not reverse firings or fully reinstate the agency. In one of the first lawsuits directly targeting Musk, U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland rejected the Trump administration’s claim that Musk is merely an adviser to President Donald Trump. Citing Musk’s public remarks and social media posts, Chuang found that Musk has “firm control over DOGE.” He highlighted a post in which Musk claimed to have “fed USAID into the wood chipper.” The judge warned that USAID’s ability to fulfill its legal obligations had likely been compromised. “Taken together, these facts support the conclusion that USAID has been effectively eliminated,” Chuang wrote in the preliminary injunction.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.The University of California, Berkeley had almost 6,500 students on its wait list last year. It ended up admitting none of them.The only thing harder than getting into college, it seems, is getting off the wait list. At some schools, the wait list is far more selective than the college’s overall acceptance rate.

Judge gives U.S. 72 hours to bring back Maryland dad wrongfully deported to El Salvador — «Bring Kilmar home.» That’s the message written across signs held tightly by family, friends, and neighbors in Maryland. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a hardworking 29-year-old father and sheet metal worker, was wrongfully deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—a move the government later admitted was due to an “administrative error.” ICE now says the deportation was a mistake. But for Kilmar, that “mistake” landed him in a high-security prison in El Salvador, a country he fled in 2011 to escape violent gangs. His family hasn’t stopped fighting for his return—and now, a federal judge is stepping in.

Lawyers for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, 29, maintain he is not affiliated with MS-13 or any other street gang and argue the U.S. government «has never produced an iota of evidence» that he does. Abrego Garcia was arrested in Baltimore on March 12 after working a shift as a sheet metal apprentice in Baltimore and picking up his 5-year-old son, who has autism and other disabilities, from his grandmother's house, his lawyers' complaint stated. Abrego Garcia was then sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, which activists say is rife with abuses and where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside. Abrego Garcia's wife later saw him in photos and video from the prison, identifying her husband through his distinctive tattoos and two scars on his head. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials admitted in a court filing on Monday to an «administrative error» in deporting him. The government's acknowledgment sparked immediate uproar from immigration advocates while prompting Vice President JD Vance and other administration officials to repeat the allegation that he's a gang member.

Michigan State’s Elite Eight run, has entered the transfer portal. The 6-foot-2 guard from Minneapolis averaged 9.1 points and 3.7 assists per game, shooting 37.3 per cent from the field. Holloman, a team captain, started 16 of the Spartans’ 37 games this season before moving to the bench in February. He, as per reports, shared point guard duties with redshirt freshman Jeremy Fears. He played alongside Jaden Akins and Jase Richardson in the backcourt. According to Spartan Mag, his impact included a buzzer-beating three-pointer against Maryland. He helped Michigan State secure the Big Ten regular-season title. However, in the Spartans’ season-ending loss to Auburn (70-64), Holloman struggled. He just scored two points on 0-for-10 shooting. With Michigan State’s rosters in flux, Holloman will explore new opportunities but retains the option to return before the April 22 deadline.

Dennis Rodman is a highly regarded professional basketball player, famous for his defensive and rebounding abilities in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Besides his sports career, Rodman has even had a brief stint as an actor and political diplomat. Fondly called 'The Worm,' Rodman was a member of different sides that won five championship victories. He has also secured the Defensive Player of the Year awards twice and was on top of the league in rebounds per game for a total of seven straight seasons.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nearly a dozen foundations and philanthropists including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his parents, Jackie and Miguel Bezos, the Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, pledged more than $2 billion to address global child malnutrition at an event in Paris on Thursday evening. The financial commitments were announced at a Nutrition for Growth Summit event co-hosted by the Washington nonprofit Stronger Foundations for Nutrition—which works with philanthropies globally to direct funding to nutritional interventions—and the OECD Network of Foundations Working for Development.

Chris Brown has announced his latest Breezy Bowl XX Stadium World Tour to celebrate 20 years in music. Brown’s Breezy Bowl XX Stadium World Tour is expected to have him performing alongside Summer Walker and Bryson Tiller for an incredible concert experience.

sweepstakes casinos has found a way around the law to let users play classic casino games online. Their revenues have grown 10-fold in the past five years, and they're now large enough to feature ads with Ryan Seacrest, Drake and Michael Phelps. Only recently have states such as New York and Maryland contemplated restricting them, with billions of tax dollars at stake. But the loophole used by sweepstakes casinos complicates the states' ability — and desire — to take action. That loophole? The «no purchase necessary» rule that differentiates a legal sweepstakes from an illegal lottery.

TGI Fridays has shut down nearly 130 stores in the United States in the last several months. This development comes as TGI Fridays faces ongoing bankruptcy proceedings as slumping sales and shifting trends have hit many casual dining-style chain restaurants hard. TGI Fridays shut down 130 stores in tragic decline: 10 points -TGI Fridays is slated for mass shutdowns for the year 2025. TGI Fridays, once known for its flair-laden servers, endless appetizers and festive atmosphere has closed a total of over 130 stores this year, since filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2024. ALSO READ: US recession storm may be brewing. Deutsche markets survey pushes the possibility towards 50% -According to The Mirror, the most recent spate of closures took place in New York, New Hampshire, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Ohio with signs on locked doors citing the “difficult decision” to close.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Trump administration is crafting plans to reorganize the U.S. Agency for International Development, which had been dismantled by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to a memo detailing the plans.

Trump administration in court filings has for the first time acknowledged that it fired nearly 25,000 recently hired workers, and said agencies were working to bring all of them back after a judge ruled that their terminations were likely illegal. The filings made in Baltimore, Maryland, federal court late Monday include statements from officials at 18 agencies, all of whom said the reinstated probationary workers were being placed on administrative leave at least temporarily. The mass firings, part of President Donald Trump's broader purge of the federal workforce, were widely reported, but the court filings are the first full accounting of the terminations by the administration. Most of the agencies said they had fired a few hundred workers. The Treasury Department terminated about 7,600 people, the Department of Agriculture about 5,700 and the Department of Health and Human Services more than 3,200, according to the filings. U.S. District Judge James Bredar on March 13 said the mass firings of probationary workers that began last month violated regulations governing the mass layoffs of federal employees, and ordered them to be reinstated pending further litigation.

Johns Hopkins University said Thursday it is being forced to lay off more than 2,000 employees in the aftermath of the Trump administration's massive reduction in foreign aid funding. «This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally,» the school, a leading institution of scientific research, said in a statement. Hopkins, in Maryland's largest city an hour's drive north of the US capital, is eliminating more than 2,000 positions — 1,975 in projects across 44 countries and 247 jobs in the United States. The cuts impact several key programs, including the university's medical school and school of public health, and Jhpiego, a global health non-profit organization founded at the university more than 50 years ago and which works to improve health in countries worldwide. «Johns Hopkins is immensely proud of the work done by our colleagues in Jhpiego, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the School of Medicine to care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water, and advance countless other critical, life-saving efforts around the world,» the university said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Companies are increasingly asking their potential technology hires: Do you know how to work with AI? Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. tech jobs posted so far this year are seeking employees with artificial-intelligence skills, job-listings data show, as firms in nearly every corner of the economy adjust their recruiting pipelines to embrace the technology.

Conversely, those with blood type O seem to have a reduced risk. As stroke incidents among younger adults continue to rise, this finding highlights an unforeseen factor that could play a role in stroke prevention efforts. So, what does this mean for you? Let’s break it down.

In the days after last week's plane collision in Washington, Pete Muntean was a fixture on the air at CNN

Trump's birthright citizenship executive order is set to hear arguments Thursday over a longer-term pause of the directive, which aims to end citizenship for children born to parents not legally in the country.

Two airport employees were arrested after they allegedly leaked video of last week’s tragic mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and an army helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in D.C.

dynamic pricing method and secondary ticketing. Andrew Parsons, the Managing Director of Ticketmaster UK, is questioned about the dynamic pricing model and ticket pricing methodology. The discussion also raises the issue of secondary ticketing, where resellers sell tickets at higher prices.