The US Supreme Court shielded the Federal Reserve from Donald Trump’s push to fire top officials at independent federal agencies, in a decision likely to quell concerns that the president might move to fire Jerome Powell.

Eight people from Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, Mexico and South Sudan were on a flight reportedly intended for South Sudan this week.

A spate of arrests at immigration courts across the United States this week has rattled people showing up for hearings.

The judge, who was appointed by former President Biden, said the layoffs of DOE workers amount to far more than a crackdown on waste as the administration has claimed.

The Justice Department’s latest emergency appeal to the high court concerns whether DOGE is a federal agency that is subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife.

A federal judge said that she had concerns about being “hoodwinked” by plans put forward in her courtroom Monday by a Trump appointee to rebuild three offices focused on civil rights oversight within the Department of Homeland Security that were eviscerated with mass layoffs set to take effect this week.