On Thursday, a federal judge mandated that the Trump administration must maintain all Signal messages sent in a controversial group chat related to a military operation in Yemen that mistakenly involved a journalist.
The temporary restraining order requires Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to preserve their text messages from March 11 to March 15.
Judge Requires Retention of All Signal Group Texts
Chief US District Judge James Boasberg in Washington instructed that all messages within the group chat be kept, emphasizing that his ruling was to prevent message loss, not an indication of wrongdoing by the Trump administration.
Boasberg will later determine whether the disappearing message feature of Signal contravened federal records retention statutes.
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Carney Claims End of Era for Canada-US Relations Amid Fury Over Trump’s Car Tariffs
Canada’s Prime Minister declared that the time of strong ties with the US “has ended,” as nations from Tokyo to Berlin and Paris condemned Donald Trump’s extensive tariffs on automobile imports, with some threatening retaliatory measures.
Mark Carney cautioned Canadians that Trump had irreversibly changed diplomatic relations and that any future trade agreements would not restore previous dynamics.
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Hegseth’s Arabic Tattoo Sparks Discussion
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has a tattoo that seemingly translates to “infidel” or “non-believer” in Arabic, based on images from his social media accounts.
Photographs shared on Tuesday on X display what looks like a tattoo reading “kafir”, an Arabic word within Islam denoting an unbeliever. Hegseth appeared to showcase the tattoo in an earlier Instagram post from July 2024. A pro-Palestinian activist described Hegseth’s tattoo as a “clear symbol of Islamophobia.”
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Stefanik’s UN Nomination Withdrawn to Safeguard House Majority
On Thursday, Donald Trump retracted Elise Stefanik’s nomination to become the US ambassador to the United Nations, a surprising reversal due to the stalled confirmation amid concerns regarding narrow Republican margins in the House.
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Rubio Claims 300 Visa Cancellations
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Thursday that he has annulled over 300 visas for individuals he labeled “lunatics” tied to pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses.
The US State Department is conducting a comprehensive visa review process, revoking hundreds of visas and placing additional ones under scrutiny, primarily targeting foreign nationals involved in pro-Palestine activism, as per official statements.
While in Guyana, Rubio remarked: “We do it every day, each time I identify one of these lunatics.”
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Trump’s Legal Team Justifies Detention of Student
Attorneys for the US government defended their action of transferring doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk from Massachusetts to an immigration detention center in Louisiana, claiming it was executed before the court had invoked an order preventing her removal without prior notice.
Ozturk, a 30-year-old Tufts University student, was taken into custody on Wednesday after being seized by masked ICE agents outside her residence on Tuesday.
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Fossil Fuel Companies Can Email Trump for Pollution Exemptions
The Trump administration has granted fossil fuel firms a remarkable chance to bypass air pollution regulations simply by emailing the US president to request exemptions.
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The Vances Set to Visit Greenland
Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, are scheduled to arrive in Greenland on Friday for a significantly reduced visit to the Arctic island, following an initial plan that sparked an international diplomatic incident.
The trip to Pituffik, a remote US military base in northwestern Greenland, will be observed closely by officials in Nuuk and Copenhagen, both of whom have expressed their disapproval of the controversial visit amid ongoing threats from Donald Trump regarding the potential acquisition of Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.
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What Else Occurred Today:
Catching up? Here’s what transpired on March 26, 2025.
